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Separated; devided.

One who, or which, parts or separates. Sir P. Sidney.

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every…

pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.

Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.

That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster par…

A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. "In thy passages of life." Shak. The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief. South.

s or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property. Burrill.

A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

A Linnæan class of plants having five separate stamens.

The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.

One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; - - sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.

d of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.

y letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. Ezek. xxiv. 6.

Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate. "These piecemeal guilts." Gov. of Tongue.

A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast. Milton.

Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.