Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Abscond

Abscond ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb

[Latin abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + dare (only in comp.) to put. Compare Do.]

1.
To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
The marmot absconds all winter. — Ray
2.
To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. — Macaulay

Abscond , transitive verb

To hide; to conceal. [Obsolete] — Bentley