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A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts. Chaucer.

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as:

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear. (Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.

A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.

co weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

cal calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division.

A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.…

nder bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division.

The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning. O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's Enough to bear. Milton. He was but born to try The lot of man -- to suffer and to die. Pope.

Goggles intended to rectify strabismus by permitting vision only directly in front. Knight.

A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa.

A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

ar off from great cities, which may hinder business; too near them, which lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear. Bacon.

ly, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.…

A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

A division of birds; the Longipennes.

A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda.

An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. -- Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an, a. & n.

ceptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." Milton.