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

Detached :: Detached (imp. & p. p.) of Detac.

Studbook :: Stud (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs..

Spiccato :: Spiccato (a.) Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.

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..

Partisan :: Partisan (n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

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

Layer :: Layer (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation..

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

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

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

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..

Gnomical :: Gnomical (a.) Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic..

Hectocotylus :: Hectocotylus (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes..

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..

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..

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

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

Scrap :: Scrap (v. t.) Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion..

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..

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