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The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton.

The act of going; egress. [R.] B. Jonson.

One who goes out. [R.]

Joy; gladsomeness.

A black woman; a female negro.

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man". F. Harrison.

act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation. Sir T. Browne. Edge of regression (of a surface) (Geom.), the line along which a surface turns back upon itself; -- called also a cuspidal edge. -- Regression point (Geom.), a cusp.

Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. (a) (Biol.) See Retrogression. (b) (Physiol.) See Katabolism.

In a regressive manner.

A negro or negress. Shak.

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.

An instrument for measuring degress of blueness.

; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress. The Century.

A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out. Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary exists. Woodward.

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.

Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. Dryden.

The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means o…

to debar; to prevent; to preclude. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress. Milton.