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A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

A division of the Articulata, including the annelids and allied groups; sometimes made to include also the helminths and echinoderms. [Written also Annuloidea.]

A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.

A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.

Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations. P. Cyc.

Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

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.

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

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

ich 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 const…

A subdivision of a department. [France]