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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.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Cancellarean. [R.]

Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.

Crossbarres; marked with cross lines. Grew.

The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.

A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

Furnished with involucels.

Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.

Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. -- n.

A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin. Bacon.

A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.