Definition of off

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Off (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like..

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Consulate :: Consulate (n.) The office of a consul.
Shrievalty :: Shrievalty (n.) The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff; sheriffalty..
Sabadilla :: Sabadilla (n.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative..
Center :: Center (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left..
Peccancy :: Peccancy (n.) A sin; an offense.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..
Teakettle :: Teakettle (n.) A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc..
Indictable :: Indictable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense..
Rash :: Rash (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
Dead :: Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead..
Lamblike :: Lamblike (a.) Like a lamb; gentle; meek; inoffensive.
Junket :: Junket (v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..
Unlawed :: Unlawed (a.) Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Legislatorship :: Legislatorship (n.) The office of a legislator.
Smokestack :: Smokestack (n.) A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure..
Disgust :: Disgust (v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by..
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