Segregatat (segregata)

pl. [NL., neut. pl. of L. segregatus, pp. of segregare, set apart: see segregate.] In Cuvier's system of cla ification, the first family of his shell-le acephals; the simple or solitary ascidians: distinguished from Aggregata. segregate (seg're-gat), v.; pret. and pp. segre gated, ppr. segregating. [L. segregatus, pp. of segregare (> It. segregare = Sp. Pg. segregar ), set apart from a flock, separate, 5469 quence, dim. of seguida, a succe ion, continuation, seguir, follow: see sequent, suit, suite.] 1. A Spanish dance, usually of a lively character, for two dancers. Three varieties are distinguished, the manchega, the bolera, and the gitana, the first being the most vivacious, and the last the most stately. A characteristic peculiarity of the dance is the sudden ce ation of the music after a number of figures, leaving the dancers standing in various picturesque attitudes. 2. Music for such a dance or in its rhythm, which is triple and quick, resembling the bo lero. From the same source he [Conde] derives much of the earlier rural minstrelsy of Spain, as well as the measures of its romances and seguidillas . Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 8, note 49. In her ., same as sejant . segurt, n. An obsolete form of saggar . seit, seiet. A Middle English preterit and past participle of seel . Chaucer . seiant (se'ant), a . seiche (sash), n. [F. sèche , fem. of sec , see - bär , as meaning a sudden and temporary oscillation or fluctua- tion of the water-level in a lake or nearly or quite land- R. W. Dizon , Hist. Church of Eng., i. Specifically-2. In zoöl ., to set apart or dis- sociate (the members of a group): as, species segregated under another genus; faunal regions of the sea segregated from those of the land in zoögeography.-3. In geol . , to separate out from the ma of a rock, as in the case of cerseigneur, n. See seignior . tain accumulations, pockets, or nodules of met seigneurial, a . See seigniorial . locked parts of the sea: it has been (incorrectly) Englished sea-bear. Seidlitz powder. See powder. alliferous ore, or of mineral matter in general, seigneuryt, n. An obsolete form of seigniory. which appear from the phenomena which they seignior, seigneur (se'nyor), n. [Also signior, present to have been gradually separated out or segregated from the adjacent rock by molec ular action.-Segregated vein. See vein. II. in trans. To separate or go apart; specifically, in crystal ., to separate from a ma and collect about centers or lines of fracture. segregate (seg'rē-gāt), a. and n. [L. segrega tus, pp. of segregare, set apart: see segregate, v.] 1. a. 1. Apart from others; separated; set apart; separate; select. Often saith he that he was an apostle segregate of God to preach the gospel. J. Bradford , Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 289. Human Philosophy, or Humanity,... hath two parts: the one consider eth man segregate , or distributively; the other congregate, or in society. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. pool, simple or solitary; not aggregate, compound, colonial, or specifically, pertaining to the Segregata. - Segregate polygamy, in bot., a mode of inflorescence in which several florets comprehended within an anthodium a common are furnished also with proper perianths, as in the dande lion. II. n. In math ., one of an a syzygetic system of covariants of a given deg order, capable of expre ing in their linear functions with numerical coefficients all other covariants of the same deg order.