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ompanionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]

In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.

Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

Partial or total absence of the skull.

Absence of thirst.

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

er animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

cteria. They are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

Absence of sensibility to pain. Quain.

Absence of sexual appetite.

Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

The absence or intermission of fever.

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

sustaining the point by argument. -- To go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.