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To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

In an isolated manner.

To throw or cast, as a dart; to throw out; to emit.

e the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, "Jubilate Deo."

To cut the throat of. [R.] Jacob Bigelow.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.

ther narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.

To make or enact a law or laws. Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson (1805).

Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.

Composed of ligules. Ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular.

Marked with little lines.

Shaped like the tongue or a strap; ligulate.

Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.

Divided into compartments.

ng sides especially, having the form of a long parallelogram. Nineveh . . . was of a longilateral figure, ninety-five furlongs broad, and a hundred and fifty long. Sir T. Browne.

Resembling a small crescent. Gray.