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A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

or the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. -- Burial place, any place where burials are made. -- Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funera…

To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring. From the egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.…

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

A private room or apartment. "Stand in some by-room" Shak.

A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray.

o prefer. [Colloq.] The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith. To choose sides. See under Side.

A building set apart for Christian worship.

Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).

The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

The apartment in which a club meets. Addison.

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.

cal matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VIL and Bonaparte in