Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Departure.
  • noun In medicine, an abscess.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A separating; removal; also, an abscess.

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  • noun obsolete A separating; removal; also, an abscess. - Gauden. Barrough

Etymologies

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Latin abscessio a separation; from absedere. See abscess

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