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Disengaging :: Disengaging (a.) Loosing; setting free; detaching.

L''envoy :: L'envoy (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry..

Dotted :: Dotted (a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects..

Turning :: Turning (n.) The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned..

Detachment :: Detachment (n.) That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service..

Skirmish :: Skirmish (v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops..

Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

Detaching :: Detaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detac.

Pier :: Pier (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings..

Unship :: Unship (v. t.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller..

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Detachable :: Detachable (a.) That can be detached.

Detach :: Detach (v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment..

Detachment :: Detachment (n.) Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.

Insulate :: Insulate (v. t.) To place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; to isolate; to separate..

Disengage :: Disengage (v. i.) To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self.

Insulation :: Insulation (n.) The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation..

Ploughpoint :: Ploughpoint (n.) A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

Draft :: Draft (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select..

Butte :: Butte (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region..

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