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egress [′ē‚gres]
(astronomy)
The departure of the moon from the shadow of the earth in an eclipse, or of a planet from the disk of the sun, or of a satellite (or its shadow) from the disk of the parent planet.

egress
An exit, or means of exiting. Also see means of egress.


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Surprised, leader-less, attacked in front by invisible foes, and finding egress cut off by the Convicts behind them, they at once -- after their manner -- lost all presence of mind, and raised the cry of "treachery".
He found himself in a very small hall, from which there was no egress save through yet another door, through which he passed and stepped into a large but singularly bare-looking apartment.
They are puzzled, too, by the seeming impossibility of reconciling the voices heard in contention, with the facts that no one was discovered up stairs but the assassinated Mademoiselle L'Espanaye, and that there were no means of egress without the notice of the party ascending.
 
 
 
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