What is "given off"

Usage examples of "given off".

Then I was in a stone-walled cell, where only the yellowish aura given off by my body provided the light.

All others need some vehicle, such as a gem, incense smoke, or the magnetism given off by freshly cut plants or spilled blood.

Fibrous rootlets are given off from the knots, and some of them develop an abnormally thick bark, in which much starch is deposited.

Bubbles of hydrogen were given off from the lead and zinc plates, and the viscous primary batteries quickly had the wires passing through a vacuum at a white heat.

In him I detected, as usual, only the scent of hyperalertness given off by the trained hunter, the controlled, unreadable spoor of the predator.

From it, in heavy ceaseless waves, there surged an emanation that could be described only as an opiate magnetism or electricity, It was as if some powerful alkaloid, affecting the nerves through superficial contact, was being given off by the unknown metal.

His eyes had long since adjusted to the pallid green light given off by the walls and he moved softly, intent upon reaching the small platform just under the curve of the domed roof.

The oily body odor of the Llor, distinguishable at several feet by off-world noses, was multiplied fourfold in that given off by the Cos.

And she had no reason to think she was hallucinating, unless the unknown radiation given off by the ankh had induced it.

The memory brought the same laugh Krueger had given off then, his joy in watching the coward's futile struggle undiminished by time.

There was a small particle given off by nukes, a nucleotide or somesuch.

I looked for and located the pulsating glow given off by the Jewel of Judgment when it has been tuned to operate.

During the demonstration she'd been privy to, the growing stone and earth stone had conjoined to form a single mass that had given off an intense green luminescence that had spread throughout the newly planted field.

The crystalline head of the rod of office held a fainter glow maybe, but one which matched, in part, that given off by the ankh floating ahead.

Here and there the wallboard and the floor showed obvious color changes which, observed at this proximity, were curious and startling, for the effect of these strange streaks and marks was as if a faint illumination were given off into the darkness.