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Giving :: Giving (n.) The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

Quartation :: Quartation (n.) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting..

Cosmetical :: Cosmetical (a.) Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation..

Department :: Department (v. i.) Act of departing; departure.

Part :: Part (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.

Leave-taking :: Leave-taking (n.) Taking of leave; parting compliments.

Parting :: Parting (n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

Digressive :: Digressive (a.) Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression.

Dis- :: Dis- () A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. It is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, E. two. See Two, and cf. Bi-, Di-, Dia-. Dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. Also intensive, as in dissever..

Adieu :: Adieu (n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.

Good-bye :: Good-bye (n. / interj.) Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep..

Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc..

Segregation :: Segregation (n.) The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting..

Flavorous :: Flavorous (a.) Imparting flavor; pleasant to the taste or smell; sapid.

Parting :: Parting (n.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae..

University :: University (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with

Disjuncttion :: Disjuncttion (n.) The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body..

Oenanthic :: Oenanthic (a.) Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. Oenanthylic..

Impartment :: Impartment (n.) The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed..

Way-going :: Way-going (a.) Going away; departing; of or pertaining to one who goes away.

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