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A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

Division into areolæ. Dana.

thern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining con…

A subdivision of a department. [France]

A division of the Arachnida, having the abdomen annulated, including the scorpions, harvestmen, etc.; pedipalpi.

A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- Ar*throp"o*dal, a.

One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.

One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere.

A division for the stalls of an open stable.