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Scarcement :: Scarcement (n.) An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing..

Offset :: Offset (v. i.) To make an offset.

Table :: Table (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table..

Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..

Offsetting :: Offsetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offse.

Tooth :: Tooth (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk..

Offset :: Offset (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside..

Offset :: Offset (n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off..

Offset :: Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor..

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Offset :: Offset (n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object..

Set-off :: Set-off (n.) See Offset, 7..

Tusk :: Tusk (n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth..

Offset :: Offset (n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off..

Set-off :: Set-off (n.) Same as Offset, n., 4..

Cross :: Cross (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

Offset :: Offset (imp. & p. p.) of Offse.

Redan :: Redan (n.) A step or vertical offset in a wall on uneven ground, to keep the parts level..

Set-off :: Set-off (n.) That which is set off against another thing; an offset.

Counterclaim :: Counterclaim (n.) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

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