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Falling
·adj & ·noun from Fall, ·vi. II. Falling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fall>>. ...

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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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Tear-falling
·adj Shedding tears; tender. ...

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falling glass
When the mercury of the barometer is sinking in the tube. ...

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falling home
When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...

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falling out
When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring. ...

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falling stars
Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...

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falling tide
, or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...

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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 fob off
To delude by a trick.--Johnson. A low word now seldom used, though we have good authority for it. ...

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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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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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