Definition of off

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Off (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off..

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Recordership :: Recordership (n.) The office of a recorder.
Talebearer :: Talebearer (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief..
Demission :: Demission (n.) Resignation of an office.
Herald :: Herald (n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms..
Marshalship :: Marshalship (n.) The office of a marshal.
Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
Slip :: Slip (n.) A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc..
Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..
Casting :: Casting (n.) The act of casting off, or that which is cast off, as skin, feathers, excrement, etc..
Gauffer :: Gauffer (v. t.) To plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. See Goffer..
Suffragant :: Suffraganship (n.) The office of a suffragan.
Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream..
Hellebore :: Hellebore (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients..
Displeasure :: Displeasure (n.) That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offense; injury.
Archonship :: Archonship (n.) The office of an archon.
Suborner :: Subornation (n.) The sin or offense of procuring one to do a criminal or bad action, as by bribes or persuasion..
Governorship :: Governorship (n.) The office of a governor.
Offhand :: Offhand (a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses..
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