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

Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..

Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.

Water Ballast :: Water ballast () Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast..

Deck :: Deck (v.) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks..

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

Flue :: Flue (n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.

Partition :: Partition (v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.

Coupe :: Coupe (n.) The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways..

Compartition :: Compartition (n.) The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment..

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

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..

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye..

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

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..

Pane :: Pane (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash..

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

Pigeonhole :: Pigeonhole (n.) A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote..

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

Dithecous :: Dithecous (a.) Having two thecae, cells, or compartments..

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