| official formula | A formula contained in the Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| officiant | The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office. Origin: L. Officians, p.pr. See Officiate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| officinal | 1. Used in a shop, or belonging to it. 2. <pharmacology> Kept in stock by apothecaries; said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral. This term is often interchanged with official, but in strict use officinal drugs are not necessarily official. See Official. Origin: F, fr. L. Officina a workshop, contr.fr. Opificina, fr. Opifex a workman; opus work + facere = to make or do. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| offish | Shy or distant in manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| offset | In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as: 1. <botany> A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. 2. 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. 3. A spur from a range of hills or mountains. 4. 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. 5. A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. 6. <mechanics> An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside. 7. A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor. Offset staff, a rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets. Origin: Off + set. Cf. Set-off. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| offshoot | That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree. Origin: Off + shoot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| office |
An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term office may refer to business-related tasks. ...
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| official |
An official (from the Latin Officialis, person -or object- related to an officium, see that article) is, in the primary sense, someone who holds an office (i.e. function, mandate, regardless whether it carries a working spece with it) in an organisation, of any kind, but participatng in the exercise of authority (either his own or that of his superior and/or employer, public or legally private). ...
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| offspring |
(both same in plural) New individual organisms that result from the process of sexual or asexual reproduction.
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| offal |
Animal organs rejected at slaughter as unfit for human consumption, eg, spleen, intestine, brain, lungs.
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| office |
Arms of Office [See under ARMS.]
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| Off | not prepared or vigilant |
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| Off | not prepared or vigilant |
| Off | remote from populous or much-traveled regions |
| Off | without preparation |
| Off | freed from danger or blame or obligation |
| Off | (of clothing) made in standard sizes |
| Off | not for quotation |
| Off | a year in which no major political elections are held |
| Off | a year in which productivity is low or inferior |
| Off | not prepared or vigilant |
| Off | intermittently stopping and starting |
| Off | a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed |