OFFICE, a particular charge or trust, or a dignity attended with a public function. See HONOUR.—The word is primarily used in speaking of the offices of judiciary and policy; as the office of secretary of state, the office of a sheriff, of a justice of peace, &c.
OFFICE also signifies a place or apartment appointed for officers to attend in, in order to discharge their respective duties and employments; as the secretary's office, ordnance office, excise office, signet office, paper office, pipe office, fix clerks office, &c.