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Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.

Absented :: Absented (imp. & p. p.) of Absen.

Absentment :: Absentment (n.) The state of being absent; withdrawal.

Miss :: Miss (v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting..

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..

Staringly :: Stargasing (n.) Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction..

Absenteeism :: Absenteeism (n.) The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.

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

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

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..

Want :: Want (v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four..

Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..

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

Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent..

Away :: Away (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home..

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

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

Absentation :: Absentation (n.) The act of absenting one's self.

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

Present :: Present (a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent..

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