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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..

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

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..

Absenting :: Absenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absen.

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

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

Absence :: Absence (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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).

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