Except

1. To object to; to protest against.
2. Unless; if it be not so that.
3. To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
4. To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
5. With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.