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SEODA, a sea-port on the southern coast of Niphon, in 
Japan ; 105 miles east of Meaco. 
SEOUJI KIAMEN, a post of Chinese Tartary, in the 
country of the Mongols; 23 miles south-west of Karhotun. 
SEOUNY, a town of Hindostan, province of Gundwaneh, 
belonging to the rajah of Nagpore. Lat. 22. 4. N. long. 
83. 3. E. 
SEOUNY, a town of Hindostan, province of Khan- 
deish, belonging to the Mahrattas. Lat. 22. 21. N. long. 
77.1. E. 
SEPARABILITY, s. The quality of admitting disunion 
or discerption.— Separability is the greatest argument of 
real distinction. G/anville. —The greatest argument of 
real distinction is separability, and actual separation ; for 
nothing can be separated from itself. Norris. 
SE'PARABLE, ad), [separable, Fr., separabilis, Lat.] 
Susceptive of disunion ; discerptible —The infusions and 
decoctions of plants contain the most separable parts of the 
plants, and convey not only their nutritious but medicinal 
qualities into the blood. Arbuthnot. —Possible to be dis¬ 
joined from something: with from. —Expansion and dura¬ 
tion have this farther agreement, that though they are both 
considered by us as having parts, yet their parts are not 
separable one from another. Locke. 
SE'PARABLENESS, s. Capableness of being separated. 
Used by Boyle. 
To SE'PARATE, v. a. [separo, Lat., separer, Fr.] To 
break; to divide into parts. To disunite ; to disjoin. 
I’ll to England. 
--To Ireland, I: our separated fortunes 
Shall keep us both the safer. Shakspeare. 
To sever from the rest.—Can a body be inflammable 
from which it would puzzle a chymist to separate an in¬ 
flammable ingredient? Boyle. —To set apart; to segregate, 
—Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto 
I have called them. Acts. —David separated to the service 
those who should prophesy. Chron. —To withdraw.— 
Separate thyself from me: if thou wilt take the left, 1 will 
go to the right. Gen. 
To SE'PARATE, v. n. To part; to be disunited.— 
When there was not room enough for their herds to feed, 
they by consent separated, and enlarged their pasture. 
Locke. 
SE'PARATE, ad). Divided from the rest; parted from 
another.—’Twere hard to conceive an eternal watch, whose 
pieces were never separate one from another, nor ever in 
any other form. Burnet. —Disjointed; withdrawn.—Eve 
separate he wish’d.—Secret; secluded. 
In a secret vale the Trojan sees 
A separate grove. Drydcn. 
Disunited from the body; disengaged from corporeal na¬ 
ture. An emphatical sense. —Whatever ideas the mind 
can receive and contemplate without the help of the body, 
it can retain without the help of the body too : or else the 
soul, or any separate spirit, will have but little advantage 
by thinking. Locke. 
. . , SEPARATED FLOWERS, in Botany, are so called 
when the stamens and pistils are situated in different flowers 
. of the same species. Hence it appears that separated flowers 
are confined to such plants as are either monoecious, dioe¬ 
cious, or polygamous. They are termed by Linnaeus, 
Diclines. 
SE'PARATELY, adv. Apart; singly; not in union; 
distinctly; particularly.—It is of singular use to princes, if 
they take the opinion of their council, both separately and 
together, for private opinion is more free, but opinion before 
others is more reserved. Bacon. 
SE'PARATENESS, s. The state of being separate. 
SEPARA'TION, s. [separatio, Lat.] The act of separat¬ 
ing; disjunction.—They have a dark opinion, that the soul 
doth live after the separation from the body. Abbot. —The 
state of being separate; disunion.—Ag the confusion of 
tongues was a mark of separation, so the being of one lan¬ 
guage was a mark of union. Bacon. —Chemical analysis, 
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or the operation of disuniting things mingled.—A fifteenth 
part of silver, incorporate with gold, will not be recovered 
by any matter of separation, un.ess you put a greater quan¬ 
tity of silver,Which is the last refuge in separations. Bacon. 
—Divorce; disjunction from a married state. 
Did you not hear 
A buzzing of a separation 
Between the king and Catherine. Shakspeare. 
SEPARATION BAY, a bay in the straits of Magellan, 
on the coast of Terra del Fuego; 10 miles south-east of Cape 
Pillar. F 
SE'PARATIST, s. [separatiste , Fr.] One who divides 
from the church; a seceder.—The anabaptists, separatists, 
and sectaries’ tenets are full of schism, and inconsistent with 
monarchy. Bacon. 
SE'PARATOR, s. One who divides; a divider. 
SE'PARATORY, ad). Used in separation.—The most 
conspicuous gland of an animal is the system of the guts, 
where the lacteals are the emissary vessels, or separatory 
ducts. Chei/ne. 
SEPARATRIX, in Arithmetic, denotes the point, or 
comma, which separates and distinguishes decimals from in¬ 
tegers ; thus, 465,32 or 465.32. 
SEPET, or Cape de Sepet, a promontory in the south¬ 
east of France, near Toulon, with a small tort, which defends 
the entrance of Toulon harbour. 
SEPH1ROS, a word used by Paracelsus and his followers, 
to express a sort of dry and hard imposthume, or kind of 
spurious scirrhus. 
SEPHIROTH, a Hebrew word signifying brightnesses ; 
and the cabalists give the name of sephiroth to the most 
secret parts of their science. 
SEPHOURY, a village of Palestine, on the site of the 
ancient city of Sephor, or Sephoris, once the strongest in all 
this country, and the capital of Galilee. It contains the ruins 
of a church, and on a hill about half a mile distant, those of 
a castle. About a mile to the south is the fine fountain of 
Sephoury, probably the same where the kings of Jerusalem, 
during the holy war, encamped their armies, on account of 
the great plenty of forage and water. There is a chapel 
here, belonging to the Greek church; 12 miles north-west of 
Tabaria. 
SEPHTON, a parish of England, in Lancashire ; 7 miles 
north of Liverpool. Population 2852. 
SEPIA, the Cuttle-fish, a genus of the Vermes Mollusca 
class and order, of which the Generic Character is as follows: 
the body is fleshy, receiving the breast in a sheath, with a 
tubular aperture at its base; it has eight arms, beset with 
numerous warts or suckers, and in most species two pedun¬ 
culated tentacula; the head is short; the eyes large: the 
mouth resembling a parrot’s beak. 
These animals inhabit various seas, and in hot climates 
some of them grow to an enormous size: they are armed 
with a dreadful apparatus of holders furnished with suckers, 
by which they fasten upon and convey their prey to the 
mouth ; they have the power of squirting out a black fluid 
resembling ink, and which is said to be an ingredient in the 
composition of Indian ink; the bone in the back is con¬ 
verted into pounce: the eggs are deposited upon sea-weed, 
and exactly resemble a bunch of grapes; at the moment the 
female deposits them they are white, but the males pass over 
them to impregnate them, and they then become black; 
they are round, with a little point at the end, and in each of 
them is enclosed a living cuttle-fish, surrounded by a gela¬ 
tinous fluid. There are eight species, of which the 1st, 2d, 
5 th, 6th, and 7th, are natives of this country. 
1. Sepia octopus.—The Specific Character of this 
species is, that the body has no tail or appendage; it has 
no pedunculated tentacula. It is found in the Medi. 
terrauean and Indian seas, in the latter of which it some¬ 
times grows to a vast size; the arms are said to be eight 
or nine fathoms long. In these seas the Indians never ven¬ 
ture out without hatchets in their boats, to cut off the arms, 
should it attempt to fasten upon them under water. This 
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