Aloof

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·prep Away from; clear from.

II. Aloof ·adv Without sympathy; unfavorably.

III. Aloof ·noun ·same·as Alewife.

IV. Aloof ·adv At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.

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