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Absent :: Absent (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent..

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Elvish :: Elvish (a.) Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..

Absentee :: Absentee (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee..

Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..

Absenter :: Absenter (n.) One who absents one's self.

Muse :: Muse (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.

Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To censure or revile the absent.

Wanting :: Wanting (a.) Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion..

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

Obrok :: Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.

Absentness :: Absentness (n.) The quality of being absent-minded.

Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc..

Greeting :: Greeting (n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.

Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.

Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.

Thence :: Thence (adv.) Not there; elsewhere; absent.

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