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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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820 words match “AWAY”

To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] Boyle.

A clearing away of stones. [R.]

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.

To put away; to separate; to keep off. [Obs.] Wyatt.

To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

EMACIATE v. 2 definitions

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne.

To take away the margin of.

To sail away or over. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Toward the inside or central part; away from the surface; -- opposed to ectad. B. G. Wilder.

r Poetic] He to him leapt, and that same envious gage Of victor's glory from him snatched away. Spenser.

A snatching away. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

ERODED p. 2 definitions

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

EROSION n. 2 definitions

The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive. Humble.

Any stone or material that has been borne away from its original site by natural agencies; esp., a large block or fragment of rock; a bowlder.

g wires, caused by defective insulation. Escape pipe (Steam Boilers), a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve. -- Escape valve (Steam Engine), a relief valve; a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety. -- Escape wheel (Horol.), the wheel of an escapement.