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That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.

Removed scum; refuse; dross.

In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as: --

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.

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden.

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

See Obfuscate, Obfuscation. [Obs.]

A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj.

An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.

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

Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…

One who keeps a coffeehouse. Addison.

A covered pot im which coffee is prepared,

A public room where coffee and other refreshments may be obtained.

, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.