Definition of off

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Off (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics..

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Fauteuil :: Fauteuil (n.) Chair of a presiding officer.
Decucuminated :: Decucuminated (a.) Having the point or top cut off.
Diaconate :: Diaconate (n.) The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons..
Viscounty :: Viscounty (n.) The quality, rank, or office of a viscount..
Teller :: Teller (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks..
Lawe :: Lawe (v. t.) To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet..
Harbor Master :: Harbor master () An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
Panel :: Panel (n.) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal..
Proffer :: Proffer (n.) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship..
Inset :: Inset (n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted..
Receivership :: Receivership (n.) The state or office of a receiver.
Water Table :: Water table () A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall..
Riding :: Riding (n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.
Marquis :: Marquis (n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent..
Civet :: Civet (n.) A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume..
Arm :: Arm (v. t.) To furnish or equip with weapons of offense or defense; as, to arm soldiers; to arm the country..
Err :: Err (v. i.) To offend, as by erring..
Wander :: Wander (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject..
Indelicate :: Indelicate (a.) Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior..
Cumulative :: Cumulative (a.) Tending to prove the same point to which other evidence has been offered; -- said of evidence.
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