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To drive away. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A driving or thrusting away. [R.] Speed.

Driving or thrusting away; averting. [R.] Holland.

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

To take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from. If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great. Hooker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.

To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.

A taking away or withdrawing. [Obs.] The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon.

A wearing off or away. Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

To turn away. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

A calling off or away. [R.] Hallywell.

To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. Spectator.

sion; matter in controversy. What was the difference It was a contention in public. Shak. Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.

A blowing apart or away. [Obs.] Bailey.

To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse. A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.

To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. -- Diminished, or Diminishing, scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. -- Diminishing rule (A…

Sending away; dismissing to another jurisdiction; granting leave to depart. Letters dimissory (Eccl.), letters given by a bishop dismissing a person who is removing into another diocese, and recommending him for reception there. Hook.

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.