A wall of a house; a partition.

A wall considered with regard to its surface. The interior wall of an apartment.

a partition wall, a dividing wall; frequently figurative (usually with allusion to quot. 1611), esp. in middle wall of partition.

A partition, screen, or railing, serving to enclose or shut off a space in a building; esp. a screen or railing in a church enclosing an altar, a…

A thing which separates one part of a space from another. A light interior wall, screen, or window. Formerly also: †a wall or ditch marking a…

Architecture. Originally: a partition of wood or stone with one or more doors that divides a room into two parts. Later also more generally: a fixed…

A partition wall in a cottage; particularly, that between the door and the fireplace, which shelters the room from the draught of the door; also…

A wall built of parpen stones; (hence) a wall one brick thick; any thin wall, esp. an internal wall or partition. Also (Scottish): a parapet wall…

Scottish. In full parpal wall. A partition wall, a partition. Cf. parpen, n. 2. Now rare.

An interior or dividing wall or partition.

A wall forming a partition; esp. a light internal wall separating one room or portion of a building from another. Also figurative. Cf. partition, n.…

An inner or inside wall.

= sense 2.

Now usually in form screenwork. Screens that partition or enclose an area or space, considered collectively. Also figurative. Cf. screening, n. 4b.

dialect. A screen, partition.

a partition wall constructed with studs (sense 1a).

Screens that partition or enclose an area or space, considered collectively; material for such screens. Cf. screen work, n. 1.

a screen or divider (as in a nursery) decorated with scraps (sense 2c).

= sense 1a.