To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"

To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"

To object to; to protest against.

a storage scope

Unless; if it be not so that.