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An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

[From the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania.] (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a subdivision of the Pennsylvanian coal measure.

tated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure…

Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. -- n.

Cell division in which there is first a simple cleavage of the nucleus without change in its structure (such as the formation of chromosomes), followed by the division of the cytoplasm; direct cell division; -- opposed to mitosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly…

Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. [Obs.]

That division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.

The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.

A division of insects having aquatic larvæ.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

An administrative territorial division in Denmark and Norway.

The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.