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or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.

A tree (Olea Europæa) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration. He might have seemed some secretary or clerk . . . only that his low, flat, unadorned cap . . . indicated that he belonged to the city. Sir W. Scott.

. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living in community, and not bound by a special vow. The members are called also oratorians.

lowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.

Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great. Bacon. Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country. A. Hamilton.

A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.

broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

To overflow; to surcharge. [Obs.] J. Philips.

A peaceful person; -- applied specif. by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.

A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil.]

The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. Dr. Prior.

n comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. Addison. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak.

A slipper for the foot. [Written also pantable and pantoble.]

One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.

, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]

ee def. 6. above. (b) (Astron.) One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the ecliptic.

Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.

Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.