Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms
terrible to view, their sentry keep.
Dryden.
Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and
shelter him from the weather.
||Sen"za (?), prep. [It.] (Mus.) Without; as, senza stromenti, without
||instruments.
Se"pal (?), n. [NL. sepalum, formed in imitation of NL. petalum, petal,
to denote one of the divisions of the calyx: cf. F. sépale.] (Bot.) A
leaf or division of the calyx.
When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous;
when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and
indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when of
several parts united, it is properly called gamosepalous.
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Se"paled (?), a. (Bot.) Having one or more sepals.
Sep"al*ine (?), a. (Bot.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.
Se*pal"o*dy (?), n. [Sepal + Gr. &?;&?;&?; form.] (Bot.) The
metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
Sep"al*oid (?), a. [Sepal + - oid.] (Bot.) Like a sepal, or a division
of a calyx.
Sep"al*ous (?), a. (Bot.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used
mostly in composition. See under Sepal.
Sep`a*ra*bil"i*ty (?), n. Quality of being separable or divisible;
divisibility; separableness.
Sep"a*ra*ble (?), a. [L. separabilis: cf. F. séparable.] 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.
Sep"a*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Separated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n.
Separating.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to separate; pfref. se-
aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. Sever.] 1.
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
From the fine gold I separate the alloy.
Dryden.
Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me.
Gen. xiii. 9.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Rom. viii. 35.
2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to
lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or
service.
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called
thaem.
Acts xiii. 2.
Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in
separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Gray.
Sep"a*rate, v. i. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to
withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
Sep"a*rate (?), p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ] 1. Divided from another or
others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once
connected.
Him that was separate from his brethren.
Gen. xlix. 26.
2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things
that have not been connected.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinnere.
Heb. vii. 26.
3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the
separate state of souls.
Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent
of her husband. -- Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a
wife by her husband under deed of separation.
-- Sep"a*rate*ly, adv. -- Sep"a*rate*ness, n.
Sep`a*rat"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to separatism in religion;
schismatical. [R.] Dr. T. Dwight.
Sep"a*ra`ting (?), a. Designed or employed to separate.
Separating funnel (Chem.), a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with
a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of
different specific gravities.
Sep`a*ra"tion (?), n. [L. separatio: cf. F. séparation.] The act of
separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically:
(a) Chemical analysis. (b) Divorce. (c) (Steam Boilers) The operation
of removing water from steam.
Judicial separation (Law), a form of divorce; a separation of man and
wife which has the effect of making each a single person for all legal
purposes but without ability to contract a new marriage. Mozley & W.
Sep"a*ra*tism (?), n. [CF. F. séparatisme.] The character or act of a
separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so
withdrawing.
Sep`a*ra*tist (?), n. [Cf. F. séparatiste.] One who withdraws or
separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which
he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a
nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting of
separatist .
Macaulay.
Sep`a*ra*tis"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to separatists;
characterizing separatists; schismatical.
Sep"a*ra*tive (?), a. [L. separativus.] Causing, or being to cause,
separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
Sep"a*ra`tor (?), n. [L.] One who, or that which, separates.
Specifically: (a) (Steam Boilers) A device for depriving steam of
particles of water mixed with it. (b) (Mining) An apparatus for sorting
pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue. (c)
(Weaving) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the
warp in the loom, etc.
Sep"a*ra*to*ry (?), a. Separative. Cheyne.
Sep"a*ra*to*ry, n. [Cf. F. séparatoire.] 1. (Chem.) An apparatus used
in separating, as a separating funnel.
2. (Surg.) A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from
the cranium. [Obs.]
Sep`a*ra"trix (?), n.; pl. L. -trices (#), E. -trixes (#). [L., she
that separates.] (Arith.) The decimal point; the dot placed at the left
of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it
follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of
separation.