• Offsend

    Origin

    From - + off + send.

    Full definition of offsend

    Noun

    offsend

    (plural not attested)
    1. (rare) A dismissal; the act of sending away.
      • 1924, , Report of the Speaking Following the Dinner to Dr. Alfred Worcester, at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, December 1, 1924, out of the service as quietly as I had entered some thirty years before; the kind of an offsend I then escaped was of the official, obligatory stamp, while this, tonight, has been prompted by no external circumstance

    Verb

    1. (rare) To send; to emit.
      • 1890, W.S. Simpson, M.D.,
      • 1918, H.S. Rich and and Company (publisher),
      • 1960, ,
      • 1977, University of the West Indies (Cave Hill, Barbados), Faculty of Law,
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