E·gress v. i. To go out; to depart; to leave.
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E·gress n.
1. The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.
Embarred from all egress and regress. --Holland.
Gates of burning adamant,
Barred over us, prohibit all egress. --Milton.
2. Astron. The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.
egress
n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an
eclipse [syn: emersion] [ant: ingress, ingress]
2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow
catkins" [syn: emergence, issue]
3: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: egression,
emergence]
v : come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The
words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge,
come out, come forth, go forth]