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OFT adv. 2 definitions
Often; frequently; not rarely; many times. [Poetic] Chaucer. Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Pope.
OFTEN a. 2 definitions
Frequent; common; repeated. [R.] "Thine often infirmities." 1 Tim. v. 23. And weary thee with often welcomes. Beau. & Fl.
OFTENNESS n.
Frequency. Hooker.
OFTENSITH adv.
Frequently; often. [Obs.] For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
OFTENTIDE adv.
Frequently; often. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.
OFTENTIMES adv.
Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.
OFTER adv.
Compar. of Oft. [Obs.] Chaucer.
OFTTIMES adv.
Frequently; often. Milton.
ALOFT adv. 3 definitions
On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.
COCKLOFT n.
An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.
CORNLOFT n.
A loft for corn; a granary.
CROFT n.
A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.
CROFTER n.
One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland.
CROFTING n. 2 definitions
Croftland. [Scot.] Jamieson.
CROFTLAND n.
Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.
CROFTON SYSTEM n.
A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.
HAYLOFT n.
A loft or scaffold for hay.
KOFTGARI a.
Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold, -- a variety of damascening much used in the arts of India.
LOFT n. 5 definitions
A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.
LOFTER n.
An iron club used in lofting the ball; -- called also lofting iron.
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