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That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture.

State of being current; currency; popularity. it is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. Addison.

Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.

Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

ght fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.

Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs. The sloping sides and summits of our hills, and the extensive plains that stretch before our view, are studded with substantial, neat, and commodious dwellings of freemen. Bp. Hobart.

The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom of Solomon. The "wisdom" (Hokhmah) of these writings consists in detached sage utterances on concrete issues of life, without the effort at philosophical system that appeared in the later Hellenistic reflective writing beginning with Philo Judæus.