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Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

To put an end to; to do away with. Shak.

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

y, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

The act or process of cutting off. "Not to be cured without the abscission of a member." Jer. Taylor.

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray.

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. "Expecting absent friends." Shak.

The state of being absent; withdrawal. [R.] Barrow.

A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.

To impregnate with wormwood.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

allowing; absorptive. Absorbent ground (Paint.), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

. Etym: [L., without this.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

r refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. Gibbon.

With abstinence.

Withdraw; separate. [Obs.] The more abstract . . . we are from the body. Norris.