Offhand () 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.

Office () 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.

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.

Office () 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.

Office () 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.

Office () The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.

Office () The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.

Office () Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

Office () 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.

Officer () Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.

Officered () of Officer

Officering () of Officer

Officer () To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

Officer () To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

Official () Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.

Official () 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.

Official () Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.

Official () Discharging an office or function.

Official () One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

Official () An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

Officialism () The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.

Officialily () See Officialty.

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.

Officiated () of Officiate

Officiating () of Officiate

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.

Officiate () To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.

Officiator () One who officiates.

Officinal () Used in a shop, or belonging to it.

Officinal () 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.

Officious () Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.

Officious () 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

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

Offset () 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 () A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

Offset () 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.

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

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