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Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..

Egress :: Egress (v. i.) To go out; to depart; to leave.

Regress :: Regress (v. i.) To go back; to return to a former place or state.

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism..

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy..

Katabolism :: Katabolism (n.) Destructive or downward metabolism; regressive metamorphism; -- opposed to anabolism. See Disassimilation.

Shut :: Shut (v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth..

Blockade :: Blockade (n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress..

Lock :: Lock (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock..

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n..

Regressively :: Regressively (adv.) In a regressive manner.

Issue :: Issue (n.) The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house..

Allegresse :: Allegresse (n.) Joy; gladsomeness.

Negresses :: Negresses (pl. ) of Negres.

Blackamoor :: Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.

Negress :: Negress (n.) A black woman; a female negro.

Regressive :: Regressive (a.) Passing back; returning.

Blockade :: Blockade (n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.

Regressed :: Regressed (imp. & p. p.) of Regres.

Retrogressive :: Retrogressive (a.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.

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