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The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance. Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. Young.

Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.

An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -opposed to Vivipara.

A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.

In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.

Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.

eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.

An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

ess. The earth Shall be all paradise. Milton. Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision. Beaconsfield.

A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark

One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. -- Par`a*phrag"mal, a.

A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.