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An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

d by the polymerization of one substance, or by the union of two or more, with or without separation of some unimportant side products. -- Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.

To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

death been opened unto thee Job xxxviii. 17. -- The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. -- To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. "It was one who should be the death of both his parents." Milton.

esolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.

The marking off or separation of anything. Hammond.

Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.

One who refines metals by separation. [Obs.]

Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

separated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.

A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

Diduction; separation into distinct parts. Bacon.