conj unless; if it be not so that.
2. except ·vt to object to; to protest against.
3. except ·prep with exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
4. except ·vi to take exception; to object;
usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
5. except ·vt to take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.