Offhand: alternatives and connections

Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints.

A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.

Happening at the same instant.

Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous…

Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any i…

An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.

That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an…

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.

Extemporaneous.

To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.

Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent spe…

Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.

To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything…

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous.

A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant…

A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy.

the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends" - H.J.Muller