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An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

ip; to fit out. The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

The department of zoölogy which treats of spiders and other Arachnida.

cal corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

A subdivision of a department. [France]

the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. "Banish all offense." Shak.

Go away; depart; get you gone.

Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. A small part of what he left behind him. Pope.

sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.

Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department. "Branches of knowledge." Prescott. It is a branch and parcel of mine oath. Shak.

r fine. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Prov. xxvii. 22.

To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.

Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.

A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

stacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpecedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; -- usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A reso…