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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Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..
Censorship :: Censorship (n.) The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship..
Induct :: Induct (v. t.) To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies..
Heinous :: Heinous (a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
Entry :: Entry (n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5..
Expiable :: Expiable (a.) Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt..
Warden :: Warden (n.) An officer who keeps or guards; a keeper; as, the warden of a prison..
Apologize :: Apologize (v. i.) To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter..
Graduate :: Graduate (v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz..
Pentecostals :: Pentecostals (n. pl.) Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost..
Deride :: Deride (v. t.) To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
Bureaucracy :: Bureaucracy (n.) Government officials, collectively..
Catechise :: Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith..
Tooth :: Tooth (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk..
Insufferable :: Insufferable (a.) Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.
Oblation :: Oblation (n.) The act of offering, or of making an offering..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel..
Caliphate :: Caliphate (n.) The office, dignity, or government of a caliph or of the caliphs..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Crown Side :: Crown side () See Crown office.
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