| 单词 | off-shooting | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasoff-shooting  b.   With present and past participles, forming adjectives, as  off-bitten,  off-shed,  off-sloping,  off-shooting,  off-standing, etc. See also off-bearing adj., offcomed adj., offlapping adj., off-lying adj., off-putting adj., off-set adj.Such combinations are possible with any participle of suitable sense. ΚΠ a1450						 (    tr.  Vegetius De Re Militari 		(Douce)	 f.94v (MED)  				Olde of-fallen citees, to buylden hem newe aȝen. 1568    W. Turner Herbal  iii. 43  				It maye be called also Ofbiten, because a pece of the roote is biten of. 1674    N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 47  				The worlds whole throng of hard, wide, and off-standing bodies. 1813    S. T. Coleridge Remorse  ii. i. 25  				A small green dell Built all around with high off-sloping hills. 1853    E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlix. 466  				It has surrounded us with the off-shed fragments of the floes. 1888    C. G. Leland Pract. Educ. i. 27  				An offshooting twig. 1931    in  Sc. National Dict. I. 21/1  				He was an affstan'in sort o' chap. 1977    W. Hildick Loop xv. 95  				The knot of off-coming passengers thickened around the exit. < as lemmas | 
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