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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing. Gather up the fragments that remain. John vi. 12.

Fragmentary.

In a fragmentary manner; piecemeal.

The quality or property of being in fragnebts, or broken pieces, incompleteness; want of continuity. G. Eliot.

Composed of fragments, or broken pieces; disconnected; not complete or entire. Donne.

Broken into fragments.

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel. [R.]

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

A collection of literary fragments.

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

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

stone derived from the disintegration of granite or gneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments. -- Ar*kos"ic (#), a.

in Eastern lands. -- Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.

A fragment torn off. J. Barlow.

in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet.

ll fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

rts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.

The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes. -- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutter head to dress round holes. Knight.

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.