SEP, sep, an abbreviation for _sepal_.
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SEPAL, sep'al, or s[=e]'pal, _n._ a leaf or division of the calyx of a
flower.--_adjs._ SEP'ALINE, SEP'ALOID, SEP'ALOUS.--_n._ SEPAL'ODY, change
of petals into sepals. [Fr. _sépale_--L. _separ_, separate.]
SEPARATE, sep'a-r[=a]t, _v.t._ to divide: to part: to withdraw: to set
apart for a certain purpose: to sever.--_v.i._ to part: to withdraw from
each other: to become disunited.--_adj._ separated: divided: apart from
another: distinct.--_n._ SEPARABIL'ITY.--_adj._ SEP'ARABLE, that may be
separated or disjointed.--_n._ SEP'ARABLENESS.--_advs._ SEP'ARABLY;
SEP'ARATELY.--_ns_ SEP'ARATENESS; SEP'ARATING-DISC, an emery-wheel for
cutting a space between teeth; SEPAR[=A]'TION, act of separating or
disjoining: state of being separate: disunion: chemical analysis: divorce
without a formal dissolution of the marriage-tie; SEPAR[=A]'TIONIST;
SEP'ARATISM, act of separating or withdrawing, esp. from an established
church; SEP'ARATIST, one who separates or withdraws, esp. from an
established church, a dissenter: a name applied by the Unionists to those
Liberals in favour of granting Home Rule to Ireland.--_adj._
SEP'AR[=A]TIVE, tending to separate.--_ns._ SEP'AR[=A]TOR, one who, or that
which, separates: a divider; SEP'AR[=A]TORY, a chemical vessel for
separating liquids of different specific gravities; SEP'AR[=A]TRIX, the
line separating light from shade on any partly illuminated surface;
SEPAR[=A]'TUM, a separate copy of a paper which has been published in the
proceedings of a scientific society.--SEPARATE ESTATE, property of a
married woman over which her husband has no right of control; SEPARATE
MAINTENANCE, a provision made by a husband for the sustenance of his wife
where they decide to live apart. [L. _separ[=a]re_, _-[=a]tum_--_se-_,
aside, _par[=a]re_, to put.]
SEPAWN=_Supawn_ (q.v.).
SEPHARDIM, se-fär'd[=e]m, _n.pl._ the Spanish-Portuguese Jews, descended
from those expelled from Spain in 1492--as distinguished from _Ashkenazim_,
or German-Polish Jews.--_adj._ SEPHAR'DIC.
SEPHEN, sef'en, _n._ a sting-ray of the Indian Ocean, valued for shagreen.
SEPHIROTH, sef'i-roth, _n._ in the cabbala, the first ten numerals
identified with Scripture names of God.
SEPIA, s[=e]'pi-a, _n._ a fine, brown pigment used as a water-colour--from
the ink-bag of a few species of cuttle-fish: Indian or China ink: a genus
of cuttle-fishes.--_n.pl._ S[=E]PI[=A]'CEA, a group of cephalopods, same as
S[=E]PIIDÆ.--_n._ S[=E]PIAD[=A]'RIUM, a genus of cuttles.--_adjs._
S[=E]PI[=A]'RIAN, S[=E]'PI[=A]RY, S[=E]PID[=A]'CEOUS, S[=E]'PIOID;
S[=E]'PIC, done in sepia, as a drawing.--_ns._ S[=E]'PIOST, SEPIOSTAIRE',
S[=E]'PIUM, cuttle-bone. [L.,--Gr. _s[=e]pia_, the cuttle-fish.]