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To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from. One star differeth from another star in glory. 1 Cor. xv. 41. Minds differ, as rivers differ. Macaulay.

A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.

Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed. [R.] Bailey.

To separate by force; to tear apart. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. Cowper. To discriminate the goats from the sheep. Barrow.

The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart. Sir J. Reynolds.

Dwelling apart; separation. [R.]

To take down, or apart, as a machine.

To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.

The act of bursting or springing apart. [R.] Boyle.

Lying apart. [Obs.] Lands far dissite and remote asunder. Holland.

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic. Not more distinguished by her purple vest, Than by the charming features of her face. Dryden. Milton has distinguished the sweetbrier and the eglantine. Nares.…

To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. Fuller.

Tending or serving to draw apart.

The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet.

To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.

To rend apart. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ifferent directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent. Diverging series (Math.), a series whose terms are larger as the series is extended; a series the sum of whose terms does not approach a finite limit when the series is extended indefinitely; -- opposed to a converging series.…