of
-in a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning;
-- used in a variety of applications; as:
-denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.
-denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven.
-denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water.
-denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company.
-denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity.
-denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements.
-denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.
-denoting identity or equivalence;
-- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of america; the city of rome; the island of cuba.
-denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by.
-denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of athens; the people of the middle ages; in the days of herod.
-denoting passage from one state to another; from.
-during; in the course of.
off
-in a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
-denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
-denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
-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.
-denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
-denoting opposition or negation.
-away; begone;
-- a command to depart.
-not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
-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.
-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.
-the side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
offal
-the rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
-a dead body; carrion.
-that which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
offcut
-that which is cut off.
-a portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.
offence
-see offense.
-the act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.
-the state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
-a cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.
offend
-to strike against; to attack; to assail.
-to displease; to make angry; to affront.
-to be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.
-to transgress; to violate; to sin against.
-to oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
offendant
-an offender.
offended
-of offend
offender
-one who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.
offending
-of offend
offendress
-a woman who offends.
offense
-alt. of offence
offenseful
-causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
offenseless
-unoffending; inoffensive.
offensible
-that may give offense.
offension
-assault; attack.
offensive
-giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
-giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
-making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking;
-- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
-the state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party;
-- opposed to defensive.
offer
-to present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion;
-- often with up.
-to bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.
-to present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. with the infinitive as an objective: to make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.
-to attempt; to undertake.
-to bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.
-to put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
-to present itself; to be at hand.
-to make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial;
-- used with at.
-the act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.
-that which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.
-attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.
offerable
-capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.
offered
-of offer
offerer
-one who offers; esp., one who offers something to god in worship.
offering
-of offer
-the act of an offerer; a proffering.
-that which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.
-a sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. specif.: (ch. of eng.) personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as christmas or easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
offertories
-of offertory
offertory
-the act of offering, or the thing offered.
-an anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the mass.
-that part of the mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
-the oblation of the elements.
-the scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.
-the offerings themselves.
offerture
-offer; proposal; overture.
offhand
-instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.
-in an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
office
-that which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
-a special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
-a charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by god himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
-that which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function;
-- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
-the place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
-the company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, i have notified the office.
-the apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
-any service other than that of ordination and the mass; any prescribed religious service.
-to perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
officeholder
-an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
officer
-one who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
-specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.
-to furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
-to command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
officered
-of officer
officering
-of officer
official
-of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
-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.
-approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. cf. officinal.
-discharging an office or function.
-one who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
-an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
officialily
-see officialty.
officialism
-the state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red
-tapism.
officially
-by the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
officialty
-the charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.
officiant
-the officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.
officiary
-of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.
officiate
-to act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
-to discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.
officiated
-of officiate
officiating
-of officiate
officiator
-one who officiates.
officinal
-used in a shop, or belonging to it.
-kept in stock by apothecaries;
-- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
officious
-pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
-disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
-importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
offing
-that part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.
offish
-shy or distant in manner.
offlet
-a pipe to let off water.
offscouring
-that which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.
offscum
-removed scum; refuse; dross.
offset
-in general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
-a short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. see illust. of houseleek.
-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.
-a spur from a range of hills or mountains.
-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.
-a short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
-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.
-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.
-of offset
-to set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
-to form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
-to make an offset.
offsetting
-of offset
offshoot
-that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
offshore
-from the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
offskip
-that part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance.
offspring
-the act of production; generation.
-that which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
-origin; lineage; family.
offuscate
-alt. of offuscation
offuscation
-see obfuscate, obfuscation.
oft
-often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
-frequent; often; repeated.
often
-frequently; many times; not seldom.
-frequent; common; repeated.
oftenness
-frequency.
oftensith
-frequently; often.
oftentide
-frequently; often.
oftentimes
-frequently; often; many times.
ofter
-compar. of oft.
ofttimes
-frequently; often.