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One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

Assemblage of related things; colletion; complication. This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel. South. Complex of lines (Geom.), all the possible straight lines in space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy…

A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or…

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

The name popularly given to the rich man in our Lord's parable of the "Rich Man and Lazarus" (Luke xvi. 19-31). Hence, a name for a rich worldling.

Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2.

An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-.

State of being contained; inclosure. [Obs.] In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon.

giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

Separable. [Obs.] "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.

, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.

Shak. To find out, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God" Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." Milton. -- To find fault with, to blame; to censure. -- To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often…

Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

ne that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial.

Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.