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One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

A division of serpents which includes the true vipers of the Old World and the rattlesnakes and moccasin snakes of America; -- called also Viperina.

An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.

In the greater part of Russia, a division for local government consisting of a group of mirs, or village communities; a canton.

A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.

In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds. [Written also wapentac.] Selden. Blackstone.

A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.]

s a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night. I did stand my watch upon the hill. Shak. Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames. Milton.

um, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.

The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.

Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oölitic series.

A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will. Wince pit, Wince pot, a tank or a pit where cloth in the process of dyeing or manufacture is washed, dipped in a mordant, or the li…

The right or left division of an army, regiment, etc.

rt of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world;…

A division of the Caucasian races, comprising the lighter- colored members.

Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair.

The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.

A district or local division, as of a province. [India]

A division of Mammalia in which the placenta is zonelike.

One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature.