abscise (absiz)

t.; pret. and pp. abscised, ppr. abscising. [ absci a (ab-sis'a), n.; pl. absci æ or absci as (-6, -äz). [L. (tr. of Gr. ἀπολαμβανομένη ), abbreviation of recta ex diametro absci a, line cut off from the diameter; fem. of absci us, cut off, pp. of abscind ere: see abscind.] In math.: (a) In the conic sections, that part of a trans verse axis which lies between its vertex and 20 2. To hide, withdraw, or lie concealed: as, "the marmot absconds in winter," Ray, Works of Creation. A fish that flashes his freckled side in the sun and as suddenly absconds in the dark and dreamy waters again. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 377. = Syn. Escape, retreat, flee, run away, make off. II.t trans. To conceal. Nothing discoverable in the lunar surface is ever covered and absconded from us by the interposition of any clouds or mists but such as rise from our own globe. IMG:content-0086.png:[blocks in formation] abscondedlyt (ab-skon'ded-li), adv. In concealment or hiding. An old Roman priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon. Wood, Athenæ Oxon., I. 631.