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A leaf or division of the calyx.

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique. "Others of our set." Tennyson. This falls into different divisions, or sets, of nations connected under particular religions. R. P. Ward.

The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

One of the two divisions of organic beings formed on the distinction of male and female.

ale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] Spenser.

A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.

A tithing, or division, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

A parting; a separation; a division. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise. Sir T. North.

A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire. An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Blackstone.…

e played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.

an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. -- Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. -- Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands for a single individual…

A division of Scaphopoda including those in which the foot terminates in a circular disk.

An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells.

e of addition and subtraction, and, by means of logarithmic scales, of multiplication and division. -- Slide valve. (a) Any valve which opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port. (b) A particular kind of sliding valve, often used in steam engines for admitting steam to the piston and releasing it, alternate…

One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.

United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate. [Polit. Cant. U.S.] Solid angle. (Geom.) See under Angle. -- Solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated. -- Solid green. See Emerald green (a), under Green. -- Solid measure (Arith.), a measure for volumes, in which the u…