doff

1. (transitive)Examples: "[…] Calidore perceiuing, thought it beſt / To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke; / And doffing his bright armes, himſelfe addreſt / In ſhepheards vveed, and in his hand he tooke, / In ſtead of ſteelehead ſpeare, a ſhepheards hooke, […]"; "Thou vveare a Lyons hide, doff it for ſhame, / And hang a Calues skin on thoſe recreant limbes."; "You haue deceiu'd our truſt, / And made vs doffe our eaſie roabes of peace, / To cruſh our old limbs in vngentle ſteele, / This is not vvell my Lord, this is not vvell."Antonyms: don#Etymology 2, put ontransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy."; "[H]is courtesy to show, / He doffed, to Marmion bending low, / His broidered cap and plume."; "Were there really seventy-three ways to doff one's hat? / There were! I'd rather suspected that"Antonyms: don#Etymology 2, put ontransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "VVhy art thou troubled Herod? vvhat vaine feare / Thy blood-revolving Breſt to rage doth move? / Heavens King, vvho doffs himſelfe vveake fleſh to vveare, / Comes not to rule in vvrath, but ſerve in love."dialectalreflexivetransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "Doff that stupid idea: it will never work."; "[…] Romeo doffe thy name, / And for thy name vvhich is no part of thee, / Take all my ſelfe."; "[H]ee (to requite their courteſie) oftentimes d'offeth off his ovvne Nature, and puts of theirs; as vvhen hee becomes as churliſh as a Hogge, or as drunke as a Sovv: […]"figurativelytransitive

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