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Unoffending; inoffensive.

That may give offense. [Obs.]

Assault; attack. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.

A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc.

ate of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

Samphire.

See Self-defense.

The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation. In self-defense (Law), in protection of self, -- it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of the assailiant. Wharton.

Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation.

tiono make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch. Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. Shak.

One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order (Com.), a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.

Made of turf; covered with turf.

To strip of a fence; to remove a fence from.

Inoffensive.

To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak. [We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.

Native lead molybdate occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually tabular, and of a bright orange-yellow to red, gray, or brown color; -- also called yellow lead ore.

freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.