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Partible :: Partible (a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible..

Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck..

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

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

Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front..

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Uniseptate :: Uniseptate (a.) Having but one septum, or partition; -- said of two-celled fruits, such as the silicles of cruciferous plants..

Apartment :: Apartment (n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions..

Septicidal :: Septicidal (a.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

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

Grating :: Grating (n.) A partition, covering, or frame of parallel or cross bars; a latticework resembling a window grate; as, the grating of a prison or convent..

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

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..

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..

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