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English Dictionary: off	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
off adv from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" Synonym(s): away, off, forth at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century" Synonym(s): off, away no longer on or in contact or attached; "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache" adj not in operation or operational; "the oven is off"; "the lights are off" Antonym(s): on below a satisfactory level; "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off" (of events) no longer planned or scheduled; "the wedding is definitely off" Synonym(s): off, cancelled Antonym(s): on in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" Synonym(s): off, sour, turned not performing or scheduled for duties; "He's off every Tuesday" v kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" Synonym(s): murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Off \Off\, adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R. of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [fb]194. See {Of}.] In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as: 1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off. 5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.] The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on. --Bp. Sanderson. {From off}, off from; off. [bd]A live coal . . . taken with the tongs from off the altar.[b8] --Is. vi. 6. {Off and on}. (a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then; occasionally. (b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land. {To be off}. (a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a moment's warning. (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.] {To come off}, {To cut off}, {To fall off}, {To go off}, etc. See under {Come}, {Cut}, {Fall}, {Go}, etc. {To get off}. (a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke. (b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a trial. [Colloq.] {To take off}, to mimic or personate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Off \Off\, interj. Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Off \Off\, prep. Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore. --Addison. {Off hand}. See {Offhand}. {Off side} (Football), out of play; -- said when a player has got in front of the ball in a scrimmage, or when the ball has been last touched by one of his own side behind him. {To be off color}, to be of a wrong color.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Off \Off\, a. 1. 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. 2. 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. [bd]In the off season.[b8] --Thackeray. {Off side}. (a) The right hand side in driving; the farther side. See {Gee}. (b) (Cricket) See {Off}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Off \Off\, n. (Cricket) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Edge \Edge\, v. i. 1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way. 2. To sail close to the wind. I must edge up on a point of wind. --Dryden. {To edge away} [or] {off} (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object. {To edge down} (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward. {To edge in}, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees. {To edge in with}, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.