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

Absently :: Absently (adv.) In an absent or abstracted manner.

Curator :: Curator (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian..

Absent-minded :: Absent-minded (a.) Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied.

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.

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

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

Dream :: Dream (n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend..

Furlough :: Furlough (a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence..

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

Musard :: Musard (v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.

Absentaneous :: Absentaneous (a.) Pertaining to absence.

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).

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..

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

Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..

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..

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

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.

Absent :: Absent (a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

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