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Division :: Division (n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

Pocket :: Pocket (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like..

Septum :: Septum (n.) A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum..

Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..

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

Honesty :: Honesty (a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty..

Valve :: Valve (n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves..

Reredos :: Reredos (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.

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

Partition :: Partition (v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house..

Stopping :: Stopping (n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

Biseptate :: Biseptate (a.) With two partitions or septa.

Impartible :: Impartible (a.) Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate..

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..

Partitioning :: Partitioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Partitio.

Septate :: Septate (a.) Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell..

Siphuncle :: Siphuncle (n.) The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.

Deafen :: Deafen (v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud..

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