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The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar. Sir W. Scott. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shak.

A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

Same as Cellarer.

Containing a cell or cells.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

Bearing or producing cells.

A contraction for Violoncello.

Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential elemen…

Cellular. Caldwell.

A small cell.

Bearing or producing little cells.

An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite, etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles, as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originaly called xylonite.

Consisting of, or containing, cells.

Pertaining to the cerebellum.

The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

Chancellorship. [Obs.] Gower.