division; separation; putting away.-separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.-removal from the present life; death; decease.-deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.-the desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.-the distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.