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Word Meanings - ABSCONDENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. Phillips.

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  • FUGITIVELY
    In a fugitive manner.
  • SECRETE
    To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
  • HIDING
    A flogging. Charles Reade.
  • SECRETARY
    secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
  • HIDROSIS
    Excretion of sweat; perspiration. 2. Excessive perspiration; also, any skin disease characterized by abnormal perspiration.
  • SECRET
    segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
  • HIDALGO
    A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class. (more info) something; hijo son + algo something, fr. L.
  • HIDAGE
    A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
  • RETIREMENT
    1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
  • SECRETNESS
    1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
  • HIDROTIC
    A medicine that causes perspiration; a diaphoretic or a sudorific.
  • HIDDEN
    from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves , consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn. -- Hidden,
  • SECRETORY
    Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
  • HIDEOUS
    hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
  • HIDDENLY
    In a hidden manner.
  • SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
    The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
  • PHILLIPSITE
    A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.
  • HIDEBOUND
    Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees. Bacon. 3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative. Milton. Carlyle. 4. Niggardly; penurious. Quarles. (more info) 1. Having
  • HID
    imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.
  • SECRETITIOUS
    Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer.
  • GLOCHIDIUM
    The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
  • SYLPHID
    A little sylph; a young or diminutive sylph. "The place of the sylphid queen." J. R. Drake. Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope.
  • UNDERSECRETARY
    A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
  • CHIDESTER
    A female scold.
  • RACHIDIAN
    Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
  • ORCHIDEOUS
    See ORCHIDACEOUS
  • XANTHIDE
    A compound or derivative of xanthogen.
  • APHIDOPHAGOUS
    Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.
  • CHIDER
    One who chides or quarrels. Shak.
  • TERSULPHIDE
    A trisulphide.
  • COWHIDE
    1. The hide of a cow. 2. Leather made of the hide of a cow. 3. A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
  • BUSHIDO
    The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan. Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country. Inazo Nitobé.
  • ORCHIDOLOGY
    The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
  • DIDELPHID
    See DIDELPHIC
  • OXYSULPHIDE
    A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.

 

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