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The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

arrison. The influence of Chaucer continued to live even during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history. A. W. Ward.

A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.

rzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents.

the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. Landor. Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity]. Addison. The…

pose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers. Macaulay.

Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.

To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [Recent.]

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

To separate and come off in scales or laminæ, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay. Shak.

ssion of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.

To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc.

Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

ent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment. Landor. -- Ex*tra"ne*ous*ly, adv.

of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the micr…

Addison. -- To fall off. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak.