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  1. v. present participle of make off.

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  • “But after we had retired to rest and were sound alseep, my two sisters arose and took me up, bed and all, and threw me into the sea: they did the same with the young Prince who, as he could not swim, sank and was drowned and Allah enrolled him in the noble army of Martyrs. 323 As for me would Heaven I had been drowned with him, but Allah deemed that I should be of the saved; so when I awoke and found myself in the sea and saw the ship making off like a dash of lightning, He threw in my way a piece of timber which I bestrided, and the waves tossed me to and fro till they cast me upon an island coast, a high land and an uninhabited.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “Having promised faithfully to be good, Sextus Pompey was back raiding the sea lanes and making off with shipments of wheat before the wax on the Pact of Brundisium was fully cured.”

    Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

  • “Neither of these parties discovering Indians they all returned to camp about the same time, finding it in a state of great excitement, it having been attacked a few hours previous by a party of Indians, who had succeeded in killing two men and in making off with sixty horses belonging to Co. H.”

    The Life of Hon William F Cody

  • “By Allah, the dog took no other wife at all!" thought the slave, and, looking through his spy-hole, he saw Ashimullah making off in great haste, carrying the box and the robes with him.”

    Frivolous Cupid

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  5. lens-screen
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  2. unbonneted
  3. unhatting
  4. velure
  5. miscue
  1. cappadine
  2. flaking
  3. grab-game
  4. sugar
  5. bay
  1. gallery
  2. pitching-tool
  3. plaster
  4. shank
  5. strike
  1. indicator-cock
  2. scar
  3. selvage
  4. tool-marking
  5. turning-gouge

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  • bilby The recording of the director and actors describing the making of a film. Apparently making off is making inroads in quite a few languages.

    Spanish - "un tutorial podría ser un making off"
    French - "Il s'agirait d'une video du making-off du film Titanic"
    Portuguese - "Participar do 'making off' dessas fotos maravilhosas"
    Italian - "Così mi è venuta l'idea del making off, che nella prima stesura rappresentava quasi il sessanta per cento del film"
    German - "Nachdem es ja jetzt hip ist über alles und jeden ein Making off zu machen" (note the capitalisation as is standard for nouns in German)
    Dutch - "Vandaag is op het net het making-off filmpje opgedoken waarbij je de 'gangster' aan het werk kunt zien"
    Slovak - "Prosim ta ked by si mal niekedy cas mohol by si uploadnut nieco z nasledujucich making off´s" (note the English plural, the Slovak plural would be 'making off-ov'
    Czech - "V upoutávce na making off zvolili dost úsměvné věty")
    Polish - "Strona składa się z 4 dużych części: portfolio agencji, nagrody, szkolenia i making-off, czyli kulisów produkcji"
    Hungarian - "Föleg ha egy making off-ot megnézünk a GT-röl"
    Finnish - "Making off-pätkät on tarpeellisia varsinkin muille videoita tekeville"
    Maltese - "ma nafx imma waqt li kont qed nara il-making off u rajt lil kristina..."
    Breton - "Aze e vo kavet ganeoc'h pep tra diwar benn pennoberenn Diwan, interview ar c'hoarierien, ur making off, an arvestoù c'hwitet gant hag all hag all"

    I'm indebted to LanguageHat for finding these examples. Nov 20, 2007

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