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Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.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

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Wrested away. [Obs.] Bailey.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away. He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.

To thrust away. [Obs.] Johnson.

The act of thrusting away. [R.] Ogilvie.

To consume gradually; to waste away. [Obs.] Boyle.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To associate in a company; to keep company. [Obs.] Bacon. Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together. Holland.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

rly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

uller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us affray. Shak.

The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

ined in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.