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The place where provisions are deposited. [Obs.]

Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

ng; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certai…

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

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

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

Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also cænozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts. Spesifically: of or pertaining the centigrade thermometer; as, 10° centigrade (or 10° C.). Centigrade thermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the point indicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between that and…

f a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.

The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.

w, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.] Many clefts and chaps in our council board. T. Fuller.

A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.

A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point. Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the…