LekhoriLekhoriTo remove or take off (something worn on the body such as armour or clothing, or something carried).
[…] 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, […]
Followed by off: an act of putting off or turning away someone with an excuse, etc.
Faith, Lelia has een giuen him the doff off here, and has made hir father almoſt ſtarke mad.
PIE word *h₂epó The verb is derived from Late Middle English doffen (“to take off (clothing); to remove (headwear) as a sign of respect; to remove (grease) by skimming”), a contraction of Middle Engl...
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To undress (oneself); to divest, to strip.
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.
To cast aside or get rid of (something), to throw off.
Doff that stupid idea: it will never work.