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Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

arated by evaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus in which the separation of the vapors is effected.

An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.

The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synæresis.

A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East. Johnston.

Diduction; separation into distinct parts. Bacon.

The act of drawing apart; separation.

soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

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

same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis- denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever.

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

A detachment or separation from a former connection. [R.]

The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.

action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance. Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls. Sir I. Newton.

Disjunction; separation. [Obs.] Mede.

Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive. Discretive proposition (Logic & Gram.), one that expresses distinction, opposition, or variety, by means of discretive particles, as but, though, yet, etc.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper.