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Depart :: Depart (n.) A going away; departure; hence, death..

Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing..

Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..

Elopement :: Elopement (n.) The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation..

Extreme :: Extreme (n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet..

Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..

Exode :: Exode (n.) Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt..

Variation :: Variation (n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.

Transitoriness :: Transitoriness (n.) The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

Accelerate :: Accelerate (v. t.) To hasten, as the occurence of an event; as, to accelerate our departure..

From :: From (prep.) Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of

Easting :: Easting (n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

Egress :: Egress (n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure..

Westing :: Westing (n.) The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.

Northing :: Northing (n.) Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing..

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..

Retain :: Retain (v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like..

Behind :: Behind (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death..

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