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• Fob

  ·noun A little pocket for a watch. II. Fob (·vt) To beat; to <<Maul>>. III. Fob (·vt) To cheat; to...

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• fob

  A cheat, trick, or contrivance, I will not be fobbed off so; I will not be thus deceived with false ...

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• Off

  ·adv Denoting opposition or negation. II. Off ·interj Away; begone; — a command to depart. III. O...

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• off

  The opposite to near. Also applied to a ship sailing from the shore into the open sea. Also, implies...

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• Blow-off

  ·adj as, a blow-off cock or pipe. II. Blow-off ·noun A blowing off steam, water, ·etc.;. III. Blow...

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• Cast-off

  ·adj Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes. ...

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• Cut-off

  ·noun That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road. II. Cut-off ·noun Any device fo...

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• Damp off

  ·- To decay and perish through excessive moisture. ...

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• Far-off

  ·adj Remote; as, the far-off distance. ·cf. Far-off, under Far, ·adv ...

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• Knock-off

  ·add. ·adj That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off. II. Knock-off ·add. ·noun Act or plac...

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• Left-off

  ·adj Laid aside; cast-off. ...

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• Let-off

  ·noun A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom....

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• Put-off

  ·noun A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an <<Excuse>>. ...

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• Set-off

  ·noun ·see <<Offset>>, 7. II. Set-off ·noun ·same·as <<Offset>>, ·noun, 4. III. Set-off ·noun That...

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• Take-off

  ·noun An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. II. Take-off ·add. ·noun The spot at which...

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• Taking-off

  ·add. ·noun The removal of sheets from the press. II. Taking-off ·noun Removal; murder. ·see To tak...

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• Throw-off

  ·noun A start in a hunt or a race. ...

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• Wash-off

  ·adj Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable; — said of colors not fixed by steaming ...

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• clawed off

  Severely beaten or whipped; also smartly poxed or clapped. ...

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• toss off

  Manual pollution. ...

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• to whip off

  To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...

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• pan-off

  See pan ...

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• to bluff off

  To put on a troublesome questioner, or dun, &c. ...

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• to choke off

  A figurative expression borrowed from the act of choking a dog to make him loosen his hold. To arres...

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• to head off

  To get before; to intercept. Ex. 'The thief ran fast, but the officer managed to head him off.' ...

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• to slab off

  I do not know the exact meaning of this expression. You must take notice that I am slabb'd off from...

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• to stave off

  To push away as with a staff; to delay; as, 'to stave off the execution of the project.--Webster. H...

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• cut-off

  Passages cut by the great Western rivers, particularly the Mississippi, affording new channels, and ...

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• hands off

  A vulgar phrase for keep off; forbear.--Johnson. They cut a stag into parts; but as they were enter...

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• put off

  An excuse, an illusory pretext for delay.--Carr's Craven Dialect. If a man tells them of the king's...

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• right off

  Directly; immediately. ...

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• away off

  At a distance, but in sight. ...

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• boxing off

  Is performed by hauling the head-sheets to windward, and laying the head-yards flat aback, to pay th...

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• break-off

  (See broken-off) "She breaks off from her course," applied only when the wind will not allow of ke...

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• broken-off

  Fallen off, in azimuth, from the course. Also, men taken from one duty to be put on another. ...

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• claw off

  See claw, to ...

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• crawling off

  Working off a lee-shore by slow degrees. ...

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• cut off

  A term used to denote a vessel's being seized by stratagem by the natives, and the crew being murder...

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• ease off!

  ,or ease away there! To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully. ...

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• falling off

  The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's hea...

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• hold off

  The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan. ...

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• keep off

  To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See offing.) ...

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• killing-off

  Striking the names of dead officers from the navy list by a coup de plume. ...

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• laying off

  See laying down ...

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• lie off!

  An order given to a boat to remain off on her oars till permission is given for her to come alongsid...

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• making off

  Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butt...

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• nothing off!

  A term used by the man at the conn to the steersman, directing him to keep her close to the wind; or...

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• off duty

  An officer, marine, or seaman in his watch below, &c. An officer is sometimes put "off duty" as a pu...

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• off-reckoning

  A proportion of the full pay of troops retained from them, in special cases, until the period of fin...

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• paid off

  See paying off. ...

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• paying off

  The movement by which a ship's head falls off from the wind, and drops to leeward. Also, the paying ...

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• push off

  See put off! ...

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• put off!

  or push off The order to boats to quit the ship or the shore. ...

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• shove off!

  The order to the bowman to put the boat's head off with his boat-hook. ...

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• slack off

  , or slacken! The order to ease away the rope or tackle by which anything is held fast; as, "Slack...

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• taking off

  Said of tides, when decreasing from the spring-tides. ...

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• to bark off squirrels

  A common way of killing squirrels among those who are expert with the rifle, in the Western States, ...

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• off and on

  Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...

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• back off all

  The order when the harpooner has thrown his harpoon into the whale. Also, to back off a sudden dange...

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• ball-off, to

  To twist rope-yarns into balls, with a running end in the heart for making spun-yarn. ...

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• blow off, to

  To clear up in the clouds. ...

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• blow-off-pipe

  , in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...

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• ease off handsomely!

  ,or ease away there! To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully. ...

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• fend off, to

  In order to avoid violent contact, is, by the application of a spar, junk, rattans, &c., to prevent ...

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• file off, to

  To march off to a flank by files, or with a very small front. ...

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• haul off, to

  To sail closer to the wind, in order to get further from any object. ...

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• move off, to

  To defile. ...

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• off and on

  When a ship beating to windward approaches the shore by one board, and recedes from it when on the o...

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• off she goes!

  Means run away with the purchase fall. Move to the tune of the fifer. The first move when a vessel i...

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• off the reel

  At once; without stopping. In allusion to the way in which the log-line flies off the reel when a sh...

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• pricking her off

  Marking a ship's position upon a chart by the help of a scale and compasses, so as to show her situa...

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• pyke off, to

  To go away silently. ...

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• sheer off, to

  To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object. ...

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• swig off, to

  To pull at the bight of a rope by jerks, having its lower end fast; or to gain on a rope by jumping ...

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• tell off, to

  To divide a body of men into divisions and subdivisions, preparatory to a special service. ...

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• well off, to

  A mode of shutting off a leak by surrounding it by timbers screwed home through the lining to the ti...

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• to take the shine off

  To surpass; excel. Dublin is worth seein'; it takes the shine off most cities.--Sam Slick, 3d Serie...

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• automatic blow-off apparatus

  See blow-off-pipe. ...

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• clean off the reel

  When the ship by her rapidity pulls the line off the log-reel, without its being assisted. Also, upr...

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• off at a tangent

  Going in a hurry, or in a testy humour. ...

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• knock off work and carry deals

  A term used to deride the idea of any work, however light, being relaxation; just as giving up takin...

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