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.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• 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.
• 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.