OPage 47
- English Word Off Definition Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
- English Word Off Definition Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
- English Word Off Definition Denoting opposition or negation.
- English Word Off Definition Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
- English Word Off Definition Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
- English Word Off Definition On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
- English Word Off Definition 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.
- English Word Off Definition The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
- English Word Offal Definition The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
- English Word Offal Definition A dead body; carrion.
- English Word Offal Definition That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
- English Word Offcut Definition That which is cut off.
- English Word Offcut Definition A portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.
- English Word Offence Definition See Offense.
- English Word Offence Definition The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.
- English Word Offence Definition The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- English Word Offence Definition A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.
- English Word Offend Definition To strike against; to attack; to assail.
- English Word Offend Definition To displease; to make angry; to affront.
- English Word Offend Definition To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.