Offa, offæ, f. g. Iuuenal. A morcell, gobbet, or peece of fleshe: a steake or collop, or any like peece.Offa penita. Festus. A piece of flesh cut of with the tayle: the lumpe. Offa, Virg.A kind of meate made with fat broth, harde chese pepper, cynamome. &c. Offa. Plin. A gobbet or little peece of pasle or dowe.Conuolutum in offas. Plin. Folded into gobbets.Offa & massa promiscuè vtitur. Columel. Offæ adipis. Colum. Little cakes or gobbets of fatte.Formantur offæ quibus aues saginantur. Col. Little rounde peeces are made to cram capons or other birdes.Obijcere offam.Cic.Cadit offa ex ore pulli, Cic. Offæ panis. Col. Soppes.Pultis offa. Ci. A gobbet or morsell of meate in potage.Offæ ficorum. Colum. Little pieces of figges.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
offa, ae, f.I.Lit., a bite, bit, morsel; esp. a little ball or pellet made of flour: antiqui offam vocabant abscisum globi formā, ut manu glomeratam pultem, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. poenitam offam, p. 242 Müll.: offam eripere alicui, Enn. ap. Plin. 18, 8, 19, 84 (Enn. p. 181 Vahl.); Varr. R. R. 3, 5: offam obicit, Verg. A. 6, 420: pultis, Cic. Div. 2, 35, 73.—Prov.: inter os et offam, = Engl. between the cup and the lip, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 18 (17), 1; cf.: vetus est proverbium inter os et offam, idem significans quod Graecus ille paroimiw/dhs versus: *polla\ metacu\ pe/lei ku/likos kai xei/leos a)/krou, Apollin. ap. Gell. l. l. 3.—II.Transf., in gen. A.A piece, lump, mass: aufer illam offam porcinam, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 165 Ritschl N. cr.: offa porcina cum caudā in cenis puris offa penita vocatur, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. penem, p. 230 Müll.: gummi in offas convolutum, Plin. 12, 9, 19, 35.—B.A swelling, Juv. 16, 11.—C.A shapeless mass, untimely birth, abortion, Juv. 2, 33: quantas robusti carminis offas Ingeris?Pers. 5, 5; Plin. 9, 48, 72, 155.