Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary

Off (sometimes confounded with of in O. Edd.), adv. 1) not near or by the side of a thing, but at a distance from it: “that our bloods stand off in differences so mighty,” All's II, 3, 127. “far off,” Ven. 697. Ven. 697 Tp. I, 2, 44. V, 316. Caes. III, 2, 171. Ant. II, 5, 11. Cymb. III, 3, 60. “far off from,” R2 III, 3, 45. “afar off,” Wiv. I, 1, 216. Ado III, 3, 160. “farther off,” Tp. III, 2, 92. “farther off from thee,” Sonn. 28, 8. “lie further off,” Mids. II, 2, 44. “the farthest off you could have been to him,” Wint. IV, 4, 723. “three leagues off,” Gent. V, 1, 11. Ado I, 1, 4. Merch. III, 4, 31. H4B IV, 1, 19. H6C II, 1, 144. “six miles off from Ampthill,” H8 IV, 1, 27 etc. etc. Metaphorically: “stand no more off, but give thyself unto my sick desires,” All's IV, 2, 34. “he shall in strangeness stand no further off than in a politic distance,” Oth. III, 3, 12. “if you please to hold him off awhile,” Oth. III, 3, 12 “that's off,” Cor. II, 2, 64 (not to the purpose).
2) to a distance, away from a place: “set her two courses off to sea again,” Tp. I, 1, 53 (away from the shore). lay her off, ib. “I'll go farther off,” Tp. III, 2, 81. “I will fetch off my bottle,” IV, 213. “go off; I discard you; go off,” Tw. III, 4, 99. “on mine own accord I'll off,” Wint. II, 3, 63. “he is settled, not to come off, in his displeasure,” H8 III, 2, 23. “alone he entered the mortal gate, . . . aidless came off,” Cor. II, 2, 116. “let me request you off,” Ant. II, 7, 127. “the soul and body rive not more in parting than greatness going off,” IV, 13, 6 etc.
3) denoting separation in general: “leave off discourse of disability,” Gent. II, 4, 109 (cf. Leave). “inconstancy falls off ere it begins,” V, 4, 113 (cf. Fall). “hang off, thou cat,” Mids. III, 2, 260. “off with it while 'tis vendible,” All's I, 1, 168. spin it (your hair) “off,” Tw. I, 3, 110. “some must go off,” Mcb. V, 8, 36 (== be deducted). “my crown I should give off,” John V, 1, 27. shake it off (your heaviness). Tp. I, 2, 307. “shake off slumber,” II, 1, 304. “I will put off my hope,” III, 3, 7. “sit like a jackanapes, never off,” H5 V, 2, 148 (cf. Break). Used of a head cut from the body: Meas. IV, 3, 120. H6B IV, 1, 17. R3 IV, 5, 4. Caes. II, 1, 183. “off with his head,” Meas. IV, 2, 222. All's IV, 3, 342. H6C V, 5, 3. R3 III, 4, 78. V, 3, 344. Applied to articles of dress: Ven. 1089. Meas. V, 360. Mids. IV, 1, 85. Shr. IV, 1, 147. All's III, 2, 60. Wint. IV, 3, 55. Wint. IV, 3, 55 R2 I, 4, 31. H5 III, 7, 57. H6B II, 1, 150. Lr. III, 4, 113. Ant. II, 7, 63. IV, 14, 37. Cymb. II, 2, 33 etc. Peculiar passage: “since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise the insinuating nod and be off to them most counterfeitly,” Cor. II, 3, 107 (i. e. take off my hat, stand bareheaded; cf. R2 I, 4, 31. Ant. II, 7, 63). Followed by of: “a fall off of a tree,” H6B II, 1, 96. Off and on == to and fro: “I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off and on,” Tp. III, 2, 17.
4) modifying verbs by the idea of an easy and happy proceeding (almost == to the best advantage): “to bear off any weather,” Tp. II, 2, 19. “do not smile at me that I boast her off,” IV, 1, 9. “it came hardly off,” Gent. II, 1, 115. “this comes off well,” Meas. II, 1, 57. “it comes so smoothly off,” LLL IV, 1, 145 (cf. Come). “a fine volley of words, and quickly shot off,” Gent. II, 4, 34. “and speak off half a dozen dangerous words,” Ado V, 1, 97 (O. Edd. of). “she did print your royal father off, conceiving you,” Wint. V, 1, 125. “the truth of it stands off as gross as black and white,” H5 II, 2, 103 (striking the eye). “your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, stick fiery off indeed,” Hml. V, 2, 268. to drink off == to drink without hesitation: “drinks off candles' ends,” H4B II, 4, 267. “this distilled liquor drink thou off,” Rom. IV, 1, 94. “drink off this potion,” Hml. V, 2, 337.
5) from off == from: “from off a hill,” Compl. 1. “ere I take this charm from off her sight,” Mids. II, 1, 183. “take this transformed scalp from off the head,” IV, 1, 70. “retire from off these fields,” H5 IV, 3, 87. “precipitation from off the rock Tarpeian,” Cor. III, 3, 103. “leap from off the battlements,” Rom. IV, 1, 78. “he was carried from off our coast,” Cymb. III, 1, 26. “put my brogues from off my feet,” IV, 2, 214.