Definition of off

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Off (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.

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Roster :: Roster (n.) A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve..
Girder :: Girder (n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double..
Reformatory :: Reformatory (n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
Incapable :: Incapable (a.) As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country..
Dod :: Dod (v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off..
Quorum :: Quorum (n.) Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present..
Volatilize :: Volatilize (v. t.) To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
Pentecoster :: Pentecoster (n.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
Woodman :: Woodman (n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.
Receivership :: Receivership (n.) The state or office of a receiver.
Valerian :: Valerian (n.) Any plant of the genus Valeriana. The root of the officinal valerian (V. officinalis) has a strong smell, and is much used in medicine as an antispasmodic..
Searcher :: Searcher (n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death..
Uncloak :: Uncloak (v. i.) To remove, or take off, one's cloak..
Miff :: Miff (v. t.) To offend slightly.
Nobleman :: Nobleman (n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent..
Indelicacy :: Indelicacy (n.) The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind..
Incloser :: Incloser (n.) One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds..
Debar :: Debar (v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of..
Questor :: Questor (n.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state..
Leach :: Leach (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee..
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