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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..

Raveling :: Raveling (n.) That which is raveled out; esp., a thread detached from a texture..

Detached :: Detached (a.) Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels..

Partisan :: Partisan (a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps..

Isolate :: Isolate (v. t.) To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

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

Picket :: Picket (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket..

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..

Comatula :: Comatula (n.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars..

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

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Sputterer :: Sputter (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech..

Dot :: Dot (v. t.) To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages..

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

Medley :: Medley (n.) A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri.

Ephyra :: Ephyra (n.) A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila..

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..

Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Characterized by small, detached points, chiefly composed of mica, less decomposable than the mass of the rock, and forming knots in relief on the weathered surface; as, knotted rocks..

Fragment :: Fragment (v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing..

Semidetached :: Semidetached (a.) Half detached; partly distinct or separate.

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