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Partition :: Partition (v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law..

Severance :: Severance (n.) The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation..

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..

Septifragal :: Septifragal (a.) Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis..

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral..

Loculous :: Loculous (a.) Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed..

Perimysium :: Perimysium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers..

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns..

Trap :: Trap (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids..

Diaphragm :: Diaphragm (n.) A partition in any compartment, for various purposes..

Multiseptate :: Multiseptate (a.) Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed..

Pug :: Pug (v. t.) To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2..

Cloisonne :: Cloisonne (a.) Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champleve enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel..

Room :: Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber..

Velum :: Velum (n.) Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate..

Thurl :: Thurl (v. t.) To cut through, as a partition between one working and another..

Elocular :: Elocular (a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..

Sclerotome :: Sclerotome (n.) One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitions which separate the myotomes..

Box :: Box (n.) A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement..

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