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Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.

Half detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]

minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

Hence, a brief or detached view; conspectus; sketch.

e other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ruxton.

s Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

That can be detached.

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self. From a friends's grave how soon we disengage! Young.

To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a…

ered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

n the development of discophorous medusæ, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.

off. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide." Shak.

Detached from substance. [Obs.] Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope.

A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.