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

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..

Absence :: Absence (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

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

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

Off :: Off (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics..

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

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

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.

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

Abstracted :: Abstracted (a.) Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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