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- Withdrawal - n. - The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
- Back - adv. - In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
- Secession - n. - The withdrawal of a State from the national Union.
- Nonsuit - v. t. - To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up.
- Disestablishment - n. - The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.
- Nonsuit - n. - A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.
- Slicker - n. - A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- Retreat - n. - A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
- Latescence - n. - A slight withdrawal from view or knowledge.
- Quietism - n. - The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.
- Click - n. - A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.
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