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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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Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..

Propose :: Propose (v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.

Shroffage :: Shroffage (n.) The examination of coins, and the separation of the good from the debased..

Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To file or inscribe upon the records of the land office the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right pf preemption.

Pastorate :: Pastorate (n.) The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor..

Accept :: Accept (v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of..

Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent..

Taxer :: Taxer (n.) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed..

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Proocutorship :: Proocutorship (n.) The office of a prolocutor.

Chairmanship :: Chairmanship (n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

Nasty :: Nasty (superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky..

Caducous :: Caducous () Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole..

Topsoiling :: Topsoiling (n.) The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

Emeership :: Emeership (n.) The rank or office of an Emir.

Huffy :: Huffy (a.) Characterized by arrogance or petulance; easily offended.

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..