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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.

Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined. The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. Mure. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. D. Webster.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.

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

ay, 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) G…

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

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.

r organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arc…

One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

An inseparable prefix, fr. the Greek ill, bad, hard, difficult, and the like; cf. the prefixes, Skr. dus-, Goth. tuz-, OHG. zur-, G. zer-, AS. to-, Icel. tor-, Ir. do-.

f giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

Separable. [Obs.] "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.

Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

l lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

rine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.