‖ [ It., to the mark or sign. ](Mus.) A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign &unr_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Assagai. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ Pg. azagaia, Sp. azagaya, fr. a Berber word. Cf. Lancegay. ] A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + segment. ] One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It., from the sign. ] (Mus.) A direction to go back to the sign &unr_; and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to eliminate laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using (certain locations, organizations, or facilities); to introduce members of a racial or religious group into (a community, facility, or organization from which they had been barred). [ PJC ]

n. the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities. In the 1960's and 1970's civil rights legislation was passed by the U. S. congress, prohibiting segregation by governmental agencies and in places of public accommodation, which resulteo in widospread besegregotion of schools and places of business. Some segregation remains in privately operated organizations.
Syn. -- integration, integrating. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. [ Hung. honvēdsēg; honvēd + sēg, an abstract or collective suffix. ] (Hungary) See Army organization, above. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ from Mexican Sp. jusgado jail, from Sp. juzgado court of justice. ] a jail. [ U. S. western slang ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a guest entertained and staying overnight in one's house for one or more nights. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. integrated. Opposite of segregated.
Syn. -- desegrated, unsegregated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Nose + gay in the sense of a gay or showy thing. ] A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Anc. Armor) A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sedge. ] (Bot.) 1. Sedge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The gladen, and other species of Iris. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Probably from the root of L. secare to cut. ] A castrated bull. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cigar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. saggard a seggar, seggard a sort of riding surtout, contr. fr. safeguard. ] A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin. [ Written also saggar, sagger, and segger. ] Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The hedge sparrow. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. segmentum, fr. secare to cut, cut off: cf. F. segment. See Saw a cutting instrument. ] 1. One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) (a) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim. (b) A segment gear. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Biol.) (a) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation. (b) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome. [ 1913 Webster ]

Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. --
Segment of a line, the part of a line contained between two points on it. --
Segment of a sphere, the part of a sphere cut off by a plane, or included between two parallel planes. --
Ventral segment. (Acoustics) See Loor, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Biol.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Relating to, or being, a segment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Zool.) (a) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae. (b) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. --
Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zool.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. --
Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Segmentation cavity (Biol.), the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells in segmentation or cleavage of the ovum; the cavity of the blastosphere. In the gastrula stage, the segmentation cavity in which the mesoblast is formed lies between the entoblast and ectoblast. See Illust. of Invagination. --
Segmentation nucleus (Biol.), the body formed by fusion of the male and female pronucleus in an impregnated ovum. See the Note under Pronucleus. --
Segmentation of the ovum, or
Egg cleavage (Biol.), the process by which the embryos of all the higher plants and animals are derived from the germ cell. In the simplest case, that of small ova destitute of food yolk, the ovum or egg divides into two similar halves or segments (blastomeres), each of these again divides into two, and so on, thus giving rise to a mass of cells (mulberry mass, or morula), all equal and similar, from the growth and development of which the future animal is to be formed. This constitutes regular segmentation. Quite frequently, however, the equality and regularity of cleavage is interfered with by the presence of food yolk, from which results unequal segmentation. See Holoblastic, Meroblastic, Alecithal, Centrolecithal, Ectolecithal, and Ovum. --
Segmentation sphere (Biol.), the blastosphere, or morula. See Morula. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divided into segments or joints; articulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. segnitas, fr. segnis slow, sluggish. ] Sluggishness; dullness; inactivity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. See Sign. ] (Mus.) A sign. See Al segno, and Dal segno. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. segregatus, p. p. of segregare to separate; pref. se- aside + grex, gregis, a flock or herd. See Gregarious. ] 1. Separate; select. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Separated from others of the same kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Segregated p. pr. & vb. n. Segregating. ] To separate from others; to set apart. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are still segregated, Christians from Christians, under odious designations. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Geol.) To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. segregatio: cf. F. ségrégation. ] 1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process. [ 1913 Webster ]