OPage 35
- English Word Officious Definition Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
- English Word Officious Definition Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
- English Word Offing Definition 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.
- English Word Offish Definition Shy or distant in manner.
- English Word Offlet Definition A pipe to let off water.
- English Word Offscouring Definition That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.
- English Word Offscum Definition Removed scum; refuse; dross.
- English Word Offset Definition In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
- English Word Offset Definition A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
- English Word Offset Definition 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.
- English Word Offset Definition A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- English Word Offset Definition 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.
- English Word Offset Definition A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- English Word Offset Definition 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.
- English Word Offset Definition 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.
- English Word Offset Definition of Offset
- English Word Offset Definition To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
- English Word Offset Definition To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
- English Word Offset Definition To make an offset.
- English Word Offsetting Definition of Offset
- English Word Offshoot Definition That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
- English Word Offshore Definition From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
- English Word Offskip Definition That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance.
- English Word Offspring Definition The act of production; generation.
- English Word Offspring Definition That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
- English Word Offspring Definition Origin; lineage; family.
- English Word Offuscate Definition Alt. of Offuscation
- English Word Offuscation Definition See Obfuscate, Obfuscation.
- English Word Oft Definition Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
- English Word Oft Definition Frequent; often; repeated.