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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Egress  \E"gress\,  n.  [L.  egressus  fr  egredi  to  go  out  e  out  + 
  gradi  to  go  See  {Grade}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Egress  \E*gress"\,  v.  i. 
  To  go  out  to  depart;  to  leave 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  egress 
  n  1:  the  becoming  visible;  "not  a  day's  difference  between  the 
  emergence  of  the  andrenas  and  the  opening  of  the  willow 
  catkins"  [syn:  {emergence},  {issue}] 
  2:  the  act  of  coming  (or  going)  out  becoming  apparent  [syn:  {egression}, 
  {emergence}] 
  3:  (astronomy)  the  reappearance  of  a  celestial  body  after  an 
  eclipse  [syn:  {emersion}] 




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