One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship.

The act of an offerer; a proffering.

The act of offering, or the thing offered.

Offer; proposal; overture.

Instant; unprepared; ready; extemporaneous; unrehearsed; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses; an offhand comment. In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.

same as offhand and off-the-cuff.

To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

A person who holds an office; an officeholder.

One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.

To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

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

The body of all people elected or appointed to administer a government, taken collectively.

the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic of some government officials; bureaucratese; -- it is characterized by euphemisms, circumlocutions, vague abstractions, and circumlocutions.

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

See Officialty.

to render official; as, we officialized our relationship.

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 verified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.

The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.

The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.

Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.

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

One who officiates.

Used in a shop, or belonging to it.

Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.

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.

Shy or distant in manner; aloof; stand-offish.

A pipe to let off water.

A reprint or excerpt.

That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.

Removed scum; refuse; dross.

To make an offset.

A printing technique in which a lithographic image on an inked metal or stone plate is transferred first to a rubber sheet (usually on a cylinder) before transfer to the paper. Called also offset lithography.

Compensating for.

That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.

Illegally beyond a prescribed line or area or ahead of the ball or puck; -- in sports such as football or hockey; as, the touchdown was nullified because the left tackle was offside.

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into the distance.

Act of taking off; specif., the taking off or purchase of goods.

Frequent; often; repeated.

Frequent; common; repeated.

Frequency.

Frequently; often.

Frequently; often.

Frequently; often; many times.

Compar. of Oft.

Frequently; often.

Same as Ogham.

A thing made up of eight parts.

A poem of eight lines.

Snarling; grumbling.

A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc.

The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

An amorous side glance or look.

One who ogles.

See Olio.

An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.

Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.

A female ogre.

The character or manners of an ogre.

Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity.

A resident of Ohio.

The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one amp/re. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.

An instrument for indicating directly the electrical resistance of a circuit in ohms.

An exclamation of surprise, etc.

A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (O/dium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

A geographical region from which petroleum is extracted.

A layer of oil floating on water; -- usually petroleum or fuel oil which has leaked from a ship.

A layer of oil floating on water or covering the shoreline of a body of water; -- usually petroleum which has leaked from an oil tanker.

A ship having large compartments, designed to transport crude oil over the ocean.

A well{3} from which petroleum is or has been extracted; a well{3} drilled deeply into an oil-bearing geological formation specifically for the purpose of obtaining petroleum.

containing oils; -- of geological formations; as, oil-bearing shale.

Using oil as a fuel; as, an oil-fired furnace.

A heating or cooking device that burns oil (such as kerosine) as a fuel.

Silk treated with oil to make it water-tight; -- it is used to make raincoats.

See Guacharo.

A small can with a long spout used to apply oil to machinery, for purposes of lubrication.

Cloth rendered waterproof by treatment with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering tables, shelves, floors, etc.

Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.

One who deals in oils.

The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

A very large deep-water snake mackerel (Ruvettus pretiosus).

The quality of being oily.

A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediaeval fortifications. A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.

One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.

The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.

A structure and associated machinery used in drilling for oil or gas; it is usually in the form of a tower. Called also drilling rig.

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean. A cruciferous herb (Camelina sativa). The sesame.

Cloth made waterproof by oil.

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

A stove that burns oil (such as kerosine) for heating or cooking.

Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.

Ointment.

See oenomania.

To anoint.

That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

Same as Chippeways.

A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis.

A peculiar mammal (Okapia johnstoni) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Congo in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

A genus of mammals comprising the okapis.

to approve; as, the boss okayed my proposal.

A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.

A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

See Ocher.

Variant spellings of okay.

the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands.

An annual plant (Abelmoschus esculentus syn. Hibiscus esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.

Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel.

Open country.

Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary is Mason and Dixon's line.

The combined territories of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Eastern Hemisphere, as distinguished from The Americas, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.

Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl; old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses.

A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry.

Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one.

same as old-fashioned, a., 2.

Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular; overly fastidious.

The condition or characteristics of an old maid.

An edible mild-tasting mushroom (Strobilomyces floccopus) found in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America.

attractively old-fashioned.

Like an old woman; anile; primly fastidious; old-maidish.