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Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarabæus, or family Scarabæidæ, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarabæus sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).

Same as Scarab.

Of or pertaining to the family Scarabæidæ, an extensive group which includes the Egyptian scarab, the tumbleding, and many similar lamellicorn beetles.

One branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

Inseparable. [Obs.] "In love unseparable." Shak.

Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Gree…

The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

Gum arabic.

Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

ving the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry.

m California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.