Available Definitions:
1) prep. & conj., but p - With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.
2) v. t. - To object to; to protest against.
3) v. i. - To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
4) prep. - With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
5) conj. - Unless; if it be not so that.