Cell

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To place or inclose in a cell.

II. Cell ·noun Any small cavity, or hollow place.

III. Cell ·noun ·same·as Cella.

IV. Cell ·noun The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

V. Cell ·noun A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

VI. Cell ·noun A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

VII. Cell ·noun A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

VIII. Cell ·noun One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

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