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- English Word Separator Definition A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.
- English Word Separator Definition An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
- English Word Separator Definition An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.
- English Word Separatory Definition Separative.
- English Word Separatory Definition An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.
- English Word Separatory Definition A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
- English Word Separatrix Definition 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.
- English Word Sepawn Definition See Supawn.
- English Word Sepelible Definition Admitting of burial.
- English Word Sepelition Definition Burial.
- English Word Sephen Definition A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially T. sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.
- English Word Sepia Definition The common European cuttlefish.
- English Word Sepia Definition A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
- English Word Sepia Definition A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
- English Word Sepia Definition Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
- English Word Sepiae Definition of Sepia
- English Word Sepias Definition of Sepia
- English Word Sepic Definition Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.
- English Word Sepidaceous Definition Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.
- English Word Sepiment Definition Something that separates; a hedge; a fence.
- English Word Sepiolite Definition Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.
- English Word Sepiostare Definition The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
- English Word Sepon Definition See Supawn.
- English Word Sepose Definition To set apart.
- English Word Seposit Definition To set aside; to give up.
- English Word Seposition Definition The act of setting aside, or of giving up.
- English Word Sepoy Definition A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.
- English Word Seppuku Definition Same as Hara-kiri.
- English Word Sepsin Definition A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.
- English Word Sepsis Definition The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.