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Repairing, or tending to repair. Jer. Taylor.

One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

sunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii. 9. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Rom. viii. 35.

Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. [R.] Dr. T. Dwight.

Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel (Chem.), a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.

The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically:

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting of separatist . Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.

One who, or that which, separates. Specifically:

Separative. Cheyne.

The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.

The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the earth. It is 8."80, and is the fundamental datum.

A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner.

A cerecloth. [Obs.]

Obs. or corrupt forms of Asparagus.