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Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard..

Wince :: Wince (n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will..

Compartment :: Compartment (n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.

Commode :: Commode (n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.

Severy :: Severy (n.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.

Reglet :: Reglet (n.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column..

Hopscotch :: Hopscotch (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers..

Quartering :: Quartering (n.) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.

Goose :: Goose (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted..

Locellate :: Locellate (a.) Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones..

Locker :: Locker (n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock..

Sideboard :: Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

Hourglass :: Hourglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower..

Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work..

Lozengy :: Lozengy (a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister..

Pane :: Pane (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes..

Canton :: Canton (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..

Loculus :: Loculus (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

"""case " :: Case (n.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or boxes for holding type..

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