A word primarily expressing the idea of literal departure away from or out of a place or position.From; off; from off; out of; away or away from: expressing departure from or out of a position or location: the older English of off, now differentiated from of.In distance or direction from; away from; measuring from: noting relative position in space or time: as, the current carried the brig just clear of the island; Switzerland is north of Italy; within an hour of his death; upward of a year.From, by intervention, severance, removal, or riddance, as by restraining, debarring, depriving, divesting, defrauding, delivering, acquitting, or healing: as, to rob a man of his money; to cure one of a fever; to break one of a habit.From.Noting substance or material: as, a crown of gold; a rod of iron.Noting cause, reason, motive, or occasion.With verbs of sense, noting the presence of some quality, characteristic, or condition: as, the fields smell of new-mown hay; the sauce tastes of wine.From among: a partitive use.Out of: noting subtraction, separation, or selection from an aggregate; also, having reference to the whole of an aggregate taken distributively: as, one of many; five of them were captured; of all days in the year the most unlucky; there were ten of us.From being (something else); instead of: noting change or passage from one state to another.From: noting an initial point of time.On; in; in the course of: noting time: as, of an evening; of a holiday; of old; of late.During; throughout; for: noting a period of time.In: noting position, condition, or state.On; in; at: noting an object of thought.Concerning; in regard to; relating to; about: as, short of money; in fear of their lives; barren of results; swift of foot; innocent of the crime; regardless of his health; ignorant of mathematics; what of that? to talk of peace; I know not what to think of him; beware of the dog!Belonging to; pertaining to; possessed by: as, the prerogative of the king; the thickness of the wall; the blue of the sky.Belonging to as a part or an appurtenance: as, the leg of a chair; the top of a mountain; the hilt of a sword.Belonging to or associated with as regards locality: as, the Tower of London; the Pope of Rome; Drummond of Hawthornden; Mr. Jones of Boston.Having or possessing as a quality, characteristic attribute, or function: as, a man of ability; a woman of tact; news of importance; a wall of unusual thickness; a sky of blue.Connected with in some personal relation of charge or trust: as, the Queen of England; the president of the United States; the secretary of a society; the driver of an engine.Among; included or comprised in. Compare def. 5 .Connected with; concerned in; employed for.Constituting; which is, or is called: as, the city of New York; the continent of Europe; by the name of John.On; upon.For.With.By: noting, after passive verbs, the agent or person by whom anything is done: as, he was mocked of the wise man (Mat. ii. 16); beloved of the Lord; seen of men.Containing; filled with: as, a pail of milk; a basket of flowers.Over: used after words indicating superiority or advantage: as, to have the start of a rival; to get the best of an opponent.With verbal forms, a redundant use, between transitive verbs and their objects.With verbal nouns, or nouns derived from verbs, forming an objective (rarely a subjective) genitive phrase: as, “The Taming of the Shrew”; the hunting of the hare.[Of before a possessive, usually pronoun (but also noun-case), forms a peculiar idiomatic phrase, in which the possessive has virtually the value of an objective case: e. g., a friend of mine (literally, of or among my friends) = a friend of me, one of my friends; a cousin of my wife's; etc.Off.A prefix, being of, off, in composition. See etymology.An assimilated form of the prefix ob- before f-. See ob-.n. Abbreviations of official;n. of officinal.n. An abbreviation of Order of Friars Minor.
