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Bound; measure. [Obs.] The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Shak.

Inactive; dormant [Obs.] W. Montagu.

A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward. Cessation of arms (Mil.), an armistice, or truce, agreed to by the comm…

A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.

a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.

Giving way; yielding. [Obs.] -- Ces`si*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

Concession; compliance. [Obs.]

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. Martin.

An assessment or tax. [Obs.] Johnson.

perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit. Cowell.

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool. Knight.

A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

n of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.…

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

In the manner of an accessary.

The state of being accessary.

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.…

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.