the allotment of some amount by dividing something | a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin |
something less than the whole of a human artifact | the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved |
an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord |
assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf |
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | any sharply pointed projection |
something determined in relation to something that includes it | |
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | |