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 Latinum exerceto, of the Tabula legum.' To be furked abroad is a less complimentary term implying that a 'man' has been 'shuffling'; it is specially applied to those who having 'gone continent' in the morning are sent back to school by the doctor at 9 a.m.

Abroaded (society).--See quotation, and compare with abroad.

1876. H. O. Manton, Slangiana, p. ii[**11? P2] (See Bibliography). Fashionable slang for a noble defaulter on the Continent (sic.) to avoid creditors. It is the police official slang for convicts sent to a colonial or penal settlement, but it is applied by thieves to transportation either at home or in the Colonies.

Abs (Win. Coll.)--1. An abbreviation of 'absent' placed against the name of a boy when absent from the school.

2. v. tr., to take away. Formerly, circa, 1840, to abs a tolly (candle), meant to put it out; now it would mean to take it away whether lighted or unlighted, the modern 'notion' for putting it out being to 'dump' it.

3. v. n. To get away; generally used in the imperative, as, 'abs!' 'Oh! do abs!' Sometimes, however, a fellow is said to abs quickly, and mess things (q.v.) are absed (trans.), or put away.

4. To have one's wind absed is to have it taken away by a violent blow in the stomach.

Abscotchalater, subs. (thieves').--Quoted by H. O. Manton in Slangiana as 'one who is hiding away from the police.' Cf., Absquatulate.

Absence, subs. (Eton).--Names-calling, which takes place at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m on half-holidays; and at 11.30 a.m., 3 p.m., and 6 p.m. on whole holidays; at 6 p.m. only in summer half.

Absent Without Leave, adv. phr. (thieves').--Said of one who has broken prison; or (popular) absconded.

Absit, subs. (Cambridge).--See quotation.

1886. Dickens's Dictionary of the University of Cambridge, p. 3. Every undergraduate wishing to leave Cambridge for a whole day, not including a night, must obtain an 'absit' from his tutor. Permission to go away for a longer period, either at the end of the term or in the middle, is called an 'exeat,' and no undergraduate should go down without obtaining his 'exeat.'

Abskize, Abschize, v. (American).--To depart; go away. Said to be of Western origin, and to have been in use about 1883. Of rare and probably local usage. It has been derived from the Dutch afscheyden; Ger. abscheiden of similar meaning; a not unlikely origin, bearing in mind the large Dutch and German element in the U.S.A.

Absquatulate, also Absquotilate, v. (American).--To run away; to decamp; with the more or less forcible idea of absconding in disgrace. A factitious word, of American origin and jocular use, simulating a Latin form, perhaps from Latin ab and squat, i.e., to settle on land, especially public or new lands, without any title or right whether of purchase or permission, though in Australia the term is employed in a more