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Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic. A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry. G. R. Lewes. Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.…

ed arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate.

The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.

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.

e state of being joined; union; combination; coalition; as, the junction of two armies or detachments; the junction of paths.

Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks. Percival.

One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. Shak.

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

hyacinth (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hyacinthus. -- Lily iron, a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish. -- Lily of the valley (Bot.), a low perennial herb (Convallaria majalis), having a raceme of nodding, fragrant, white flowers. -- Lily pad, the large floating leaf…

The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.

A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.

A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.

Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.

the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.

The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.