Cell

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

2. A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent. "Cells or dependent priories." Milman.

3. Any small cavity, or hollow place.

4. The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

5. Same as Cella.

6. A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

7. One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To place or inclosed in a cell. "Celled under ground." [R.] Warner.