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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Curtail :: Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce..
Fauteuil :: Fauteuil (n.) Chair of a presiding officer.
Official :: Official (n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report..
Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural.
Head :: Head (v. t.) To cut off the top of; to lop off; as, to head trees..
Unburden :: Unburden (v. t.) To throw off, as a burden; to unload..
Deferrer :: Deferrer (n.) One who defers or puts off.
Decurionate :: Decurionate (n.) The office of a decurion.
Discount :: Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted..
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) One who or that which defends or protects by warding off har.
Trespass :: Trespass (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against..
Crock :: Crock (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth..
Vendible :: Vendible (n.) Something to be sold, or offered for sale..
Ratiocinate :: Ratiocinate (v. i.) To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
Swore :: Sweal (v. t.) To singe; to scorch; to swale; as, to sweal a pig by singeing off the hair..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off..
Designate :: Designate (v. t.) To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
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