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At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

d pass the shank painter. -- To weigh anchor, to heave or raise the anchor so as to sail away.

To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.…

a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

Away from the ambulacral region.

A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness." Jas. i. 21. Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. Keble.

Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.

Bending away from the ground; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.

orders. Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

To tear up by the roots; to draw away. [Obs.] Wyatt.

The act of taking away. [Obs.] "This arreption was sudden." Bp. Hall.

Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant. [R.] Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased. Selden.

Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts. "Lay aside every weight." Heb. xii. 1.

Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

; an essential or necessary property or characteristic. But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . . It is an attribute to God himself. Shak.