ignifies also a little apartment or chamber, such as those wherein the ancient monks, solitaries, and hermits, lived in retirement.
CELLS are also the little divisions in honey-combs, which are always regular hexagons.
CELLS, in botany, the hollow places between the partitions in the pods, luffs, and other seed-vessels of plants; according as there is one, two, three, &c., of these cells, the vessel is said to be unicellular, bicellular, tricellular, &c.
CELLS, in anatomy, little bags, or bladders, where fluids or other matters are lodged; called loculi, cellulae, &c.