There are currently 4370 EnglishDictionary in this directory beginning with the letter O.
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O () Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure.
O (a.) One.
O (interj.) An exclamation used in calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc.
O (n.) A cipher; zero.
O (n.) Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval.
O (n.) The letter O, or its sound.
O' () A prefix to Irish family names, which signifies grandson or descendant of, and is a character of dignity; as, O'Neil, O'Carrol.
O' (prep.) A shortened form of of or on.
O'er (prep. & adv.) A contr. of Over.
O's (pl. ) of O
Oad (n.) See Woad.
Oaf (n.) Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.
Oafish (a.) Like an oaf; simple.
Oak (n.) The strong wood or timber of the oak.
Oaken (a.) Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.
Oaker (n.) See Ocher.
Oakling (n.) A young oak.
Oakum (n.) The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.
Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
Oaky (n.) Resembling oak; strong.
Oar (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
Oar (n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
Oar (n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
Oar (v. t. & i.) To row.
Oar-footed (a.) Having feet adapted for swimming.
Oared (a.) Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
Oared (a.) Having feet adapted for swimming.
Oared (a.) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.
Oared (imp. & p. p.) of Oar
Oarfish (n.) The ribbon fish.
Oarfoot (n.) Any crustacean of the genus Remipes.
Oaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oar
Oarless (a.) Without oars.
Oarlock (n.) The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
Oarsman (n.) One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.
Oarsmen (pl. ) of Oarsman
Oarsweed (n.) Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.
Oary (a.) Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan's oary feet.
Oases (pl. ) of Oasis
Oasis (n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
Oast (n.) A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.
Oat (n.) A musical pipe made of oat straw.
Oat (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
Oatcake (n.) A cake made of oatmeal.
Oaten (a.) Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe.
Oaten (a.) Made of oatmeal; as, oaten cakes.
Oath (n.) A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing.
Oath (n.) A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.
Oath (n.) A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
Oath (n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.
Oathable (a.) Capable of having an oath administered to.
Oathbreaking (n.) The violation of an oath; perjury.
Oaths (pl. ) of Oath
Oatmeal (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.
Oatmeal (n.) Meal made of oats.
Oats (pl. ) of Oat
Obbe (n.) See Obi.
Obcompressed (a.) Compressed or flattened antero-posteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one.
Obconic (a.) Alt. of Obconical
Obconical (a.) Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.
Obcordate (a.) Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf.
Obdiplostemonous (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers.
Obdiplostemony (n.) The condition of being obdiplostemonous.
Obdormition (n.) Sleep.
Obduce (v. t.) To draw over, as a covering.
Obduct (v. t.) To draw over; to cover.
Obduction (n.) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
Obduracy (n.) The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
Obdurate (a.) Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
Obdurate (v. t.) To harden.
Obduration (n.) A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
Obdure (a.) Alt. of Obdured
Obdure (v. t.) To harden.
Obdured (a.) Obdurate; hard.
Obduredness (n.) Hardness.
Obdureness (n.) Alt. of Obduredness
Obeah (a.) Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.
Obeah (n.) Same as Obi.
Obectize (v. t.) To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object.
Obedible (a.) Obedient.
Obedience (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
Obedience (n.) A following; a body of adherents; as, the Roman Catholic obedience, or the whole body of persons who submit to the authority of the pope.
Obedience (n.) One of the three monastic vows.
Obedience (n.) The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Obedience (n.) The written precept of a superior in a religious order or congregation to a subject.
Obedience (n.) Words or actions denoting submission to authority; dutifulness.
Obedienciary (n.) One yielding obedience.
Obedient (a.) Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.
Obediential (a.) According to the rule of obedience.
Obediently (adv.) In an obedient manner; with obedience.
Obeisance (n.) A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy.
Obeisance (n.) Obedience.
Obeisancy (n.) See Obeisance.
Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.
Obeli (pl. ) of Obelus
Obelion (n.) The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.
Obeliscal (a.) Formed like an obelisk.
Obelisk (n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2.
Obelisk (n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
Obelisk (v. t.) To mark or designate with an obelisk.
Obelisked (imp. & p. p.) of Obelisk
Obelisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obelisk
Obelize (v. t.) To designate with an obelus; to mark as doubtful or spirituous.
Obelized (imp. & p. p.) of Obelize
Obelizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obelize
Obequitate (v. i.) To ride about.
Oberon (n.) The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.
Oberration (n.) A wandering about.
Obese (a.) Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.
Obeseness (n.) Quality of being obese; obesity.
Obesity (n.) The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.
Obey (v. i.) To give obedience.
Obey (v. t.) To give ear to; to execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of.
Obey (v. t.) To submit to the authority of; to be ruled by.
Obey (v. t.) To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.
Obeyed (imp. & p. p.) of Obey
Obeyer (n.) One who yields obedience.
Obeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obey
Obeyingly (adv.) Obediently; submissively.
Obfirm (v. t.) Alt. of Obfirmate
Obfirmate (v. t.) To make firm; to harden in resolution.
Obfirmation (n.) Hardness of heart; obduracy.
Obfuscate (a.) Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
Obfuscate (v. t.) To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder.
Obfuscated (imp. & p. p.) of Obfuscate
Obfuscating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obfuscate
Obfuscation (n.) The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.
Obi (n.) A charm or fetich.
Obi (n.) A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.
Obimbricate (a.) Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.
Obit (n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.
Obit (n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.
Obit (n.) Death; decease; the date of one's death.
Obiter (adv.) In passing; incidentally; by the way.
Obitual (a.) Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days.
Obituaries (pl. ) of Obituary
Obituarily (adv.) In the manner of an obituary.
Obituary (n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.
Obituary (n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
Obiyuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.
Object (a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.
Object (v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.
Object (v. t.) A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb.
Object (v. t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Object (v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause.
Object (v. t.) That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.
Object (v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
Object (v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
Objectable (a.) Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection.
Objected (imp. & p. p.) of Object
Objectify (v. t.) To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.
Objecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Object
Objection (n.) Cause of trouble; sorrow.
Objection (n.) That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections.
Objection (n.) The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.
Objectionable (a.) Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
Objectist (n.) One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy.
Objectivate (v. t.) To objectify.
Objectivation (n.) Converting into an object.
Objective (a.) Of or pertaining to an object.
Objective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition, being that case in which the direct object of the verb is placed. See Accusative, n.
Objective (n.) An object glass. See under Object, n.
Objective (n.) Same as Objective point, under Objective, a.
Objective (n.) The objective case.
Objectively (adv.) In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.
Objectiveness (n.) Objectivity.
Objectivity (n.) The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.
Objectless (a.) Having no object; purposeless.
Objector (n.) One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
Objibways (n.pl.) See Chippeways.
Objicient (n.) One who makes objection; an objector.
Objuration (n.) A binding by oath.
Objurgate (v. t.) To chide; to reprove.
Objurgated (imp. & p. p.) of Objurgate
Objurgating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Objurgate
Objurgation (n.) The act of objurgating; reproof.
Objurgatory (a.) Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory.
Oblanceolate (a.) Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
Oblata (pl. ) of Oblatum
Oblate (a.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
Oblate (a.) Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
Oblate (a.) One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
Oblate (a.) One of the Oblati.
Oblateness (n.) The quality or state of being oblate.
Oblati (n. pl.) A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.
Oblati (n. pl.) Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
Oblation (n.) A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.
Oblation (n.) Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
Oblation (n.) The act of offering, or of making an offering.
Oblationer (n.) One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence.
Oblatrate (v. i.) To bark or snarl, as a dog.
Oblatration (n.) The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.
Oblatum (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.
Oblectate (v. t.) To delight; to please greatly.
Oblectation (n.) The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight.
Obligable (a.) Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.
Obligate (v. t.) To bind or firmly hold to an act; to compel; to constrain; to bind to any act of duty or courtesy by a formal pledge.
Obligate (v. t.) To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.
Obligated (imp. & p. p.) of Obligate
Obligating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obligate
Obligation (n.) A bond with a condition annexed, and a penalty for nonfulfillment. In a larger sense, it is an acknowledgment of a duty to pay a certain sum or do a certain things.
Obligation (n.) Any act by which a person becomes bound to do something to or for anouther, or to forbear something; external duties imposed by law, promise, or contract, by the relations of society, or by courtesy, kindness, etc.
Obligation (n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty.
Obligation (n.) The act of obligating.
Obligation (n.) The state of being obligated or bound; the state of being indebted for an act of favor or kindness; as, to place others under obligations to one.
Obligato (a.) See Obbligato.
Obligatorily (adv.) In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.
Obligatoriness (n.) The quality or state of being obligatory.
Obligatory (a.) Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.
Oblige (v. t.) To attach, as by a bond.
Oblige (v. t.) To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.
Oblige (v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.
Obliged (imp. & p. p.) of Oblige
Obligee (n.) The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given.
Obligement (n.) Obligation.
Obliger (n.) One who, or that which, obliges.
Obliging (a.) Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.
Obliging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oblige
Obligor (n.) The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.
Obliquation (n.) Deviation from moral rectitude.
Obliquation (n.) The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes.
Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
Oblique (a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
Oblique (v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
Oblique (v. i.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
Oblique-angled (a.) Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
Obliqued (imp. & p. p.) of Oblique
Obliquely (adv.) In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.
Obliqueness (n.) Quality or state of being oblique.
Obliquing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oblique
Obliquities (pl. ) of Obliquity
Obliquity (n.) Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.
Obliquity (n.) The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.
Oblite (a.) Indistinct; slurred over.
Obliterate (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
Obliterate (v. t.) To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
Obliterated (imp. & p. p.) of Obliterate
Obliterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obliterate
Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.
Obliterative (a.) Tending or serving to obliterate.
Oblivion (n.) Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.
Oblivion (n.) The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
Oblong (a.) Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
Oblong (n.) A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
Oblong-ovate (a.) Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
Oblonga (pl. ) of Oblongum
Oblongata (n.) The medulla oblongata.
Oblongatal (a.) Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.
Oblongish (a.) Somewhat oblong.
Oblongly (adv.) In an oblong form.
Oblongness (n.) State or quality of being oblong.
Oblongum (n.) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
Obloquious (a.) Containing obloquy; reproachful
Obloquy (n.) Cause of reproach; disgrace.
Obloquy (n.) Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.
Obluctation (n.) A struggle against; resistance; opposition.
Obmutescence (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
Obmutescence (n.) A keeping silent or mute.
Obnoxious (a.) Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
Obnoxious (a.) Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
Obnoxious (a.) Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
Obnubilate (v. t.) To cloud; to obscure.
Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
Oboist (n.) A performer on the oboe.
Obolary (a.) Possessing only small coins; impoverished.
Obole (n.) A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.
Oboli (pl. ) of Obolus
Obolize (v. t.) See Obelize.
Obolo (n.) A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.
Obolus (n.) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.
Obolus (n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.
Obomegoid (a.) Obversely omegoid.
Oboval (a.) Obovate.
Obovate (a.) Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
Obreption (n.) The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
Obreption (n.) The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.
Obreptitious (a.) Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth.
Obrogate (v. t.) To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one.
Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
Obrok (n.) A rent.
Obscene (a/) Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
Obscene (a/) Inauspicious; ill-omened.
Obscene (a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
Obscenities (pl. ) of Obscenity
Obscenity (n.) That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.
Obscurant (n.) One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.
Obscurantism (n.) The system or the principles of the obscurants.
Obscurantist (n.) Same as Obscurant.
Obscuration (v. t.) The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.
Obscure (a.) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
Obscure (n.) Obscurity.
Obscure (superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.
Obscure (superl.) Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects.
Obscure (superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.
Obscure (superl.) Not noticeable; humble; mean.
Obscure (superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.
Obscure (v. i.) To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark.
Obscured (imp. & p. p.) of Obscure
Obscurely (adv.) In an obscure manner.
Obscurement (n.) The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration.
Obscureness (n.) Obscurity.
Obscurer (n.) One who, or that which, obscures.
Obscuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obscure
Obscurity (n.) The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.
Obsecrate (v. t.) To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.
Obsecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Obsecrate
Obsecrating (p. pr. & vb, n.) of Obsecrate
Obsecration (n.) A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.
Obsecration (n.) The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with "By."
Obsecratory (a.) Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory.
Obsequent (a.) Obedient; submissive; obsequious.
Obsequience (n.) Obsequiousness.
Obsequies (n.pl.) See Obsequy.
Obsequies (pl. ) of Obsequy
Obsequious (a.) Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
Obsequious (a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
Obsequiously (adv.) In a manner appropriate to obsequies.
Obsequiously (adv.) In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly.
Obsequiousness (n.) The quality or state of being obsequious.
Obsequy (n.) Obsequiousness.
Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.
Observable (a.) Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable.
Observance (n.) An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom.
Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
Observance (n.) The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.
Observancy (n.) Observance.
Observanda (pl. ) of Observandum
Observandum (n.) A thing to be observed.
Observant (a.) Submissively attentive; obediently watchful; regardful; mindful; obedient (to); -- with of, as, to be observant of rules.
Observant (a.) Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits.
Observant (n.) A sycophantic servant.
Observant (n.) An Observantine.
Observant (n.) One who observes forms and rules.
Observantine (n.) One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
Observantly (adv.) In an observant manner.
Observation (n.) Hence: An expression of an opinion or judgment upon what one has observed; a remark.
Observation (n.) Performance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance.
Observation (n.) The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.
Observation (n.) The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Observation (n.) The information so acquired.
Observation (n.) The result of an act, or of acts, of observing; view; reflection; conclusion; judgment.
Observational (a.) Of a pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations.
Observative (a.) Observing; watchful.
Observator (n.) One who makes a remark.
Observator (n.) One who observes or takes notice.
Observatories (pl. ) of Observatory
Observatory (n.) A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena.
Observatory (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.
Observatory (n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.
Observatory (n.) A place, as an elevated chamber, from which a view may be observed or commanded.
Observe (v. i.) To make a remark; to comment; -- generally with on or upon.
Observe (v. i.) To take notice; to give attention to what one sees or hears; to attend.
Observe (v. t.) To be on the watch respecting; to pay attention to; to notice with care; to see; to perceive; to discover; as, to observe an eclipse; to observe the color or fashion of a dress; to observe the movements of an army.
Observe (v. t.) To express as what has been noticed; to utter as a remark; to say in a casual or incidental way; to remark.
Observe (v. t.) To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or commands; to observe civility.
Observed (imp. & p. p.) of Observe
Observer (n.) A sycophantic follower.
Observer (n.) One who fulfills or performs; as, an observer of his promises.
Observer (n.) One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice.
Observer (n.) One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.
Observership (n.) The office or work of an observer.
Observing (a.) Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; as, an observing person; an observing mind.
Observing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Observe
Obsess (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
Obsession (n.) The act of besieging.
Obsession (n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.
Obsidian (n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.
Obsidional (a.) Of or pertaining to a siege.
Obsigillation (n.) A sealing up.
Obsign (v. t.) To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp.
Obsignate (v. t.) To seal; to ratify.
Obsignation (n.) The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
Obsignatory (a.) Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
Obsolesce (v. i.) To become obsolescent.
Obsolescence (n.) The state of becoming obsolete.
Obsolescent (a.) Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.
Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.
Obsolete (a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.
Obsolete (v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use.
Obsoletely (adv.) In an obsolete manner.
Obsoleteness (n.) Indistinctness; want of development.
Obsoleteness (n.) The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
Obstacle (v.) That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
Obstetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art.
Obstetricate (v. i.) To perform the office of midwife.
Obstetricate (v. t.) To assist as a midwife.
Obstetrication (n.) The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery.
Obstetrician (n.) One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.
Obstetricious (a.) Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance.
Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.
Obstetricy (n.) Obstetrics.
Obstinacy (n.) The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
Obstinate (a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Obstinate (a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
Obstination (n.) Obstinacy; stubbornness.
Obstipation (n.) Extreme constipation.
Obstipation (n.) The act of stopping up, as a passage.
Obstreperous (a.) Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
Obstriction (n.) The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond.
Obstringe (v. t.) To constrain; to put under obligation.
Obstruct (v. t.) To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation.
Obstruct (v. t.) To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body.
Obstructed (imp. & p. p.) of Obstruct
Obstructer (n.) One who obstructs or hinders.
Obstructing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obstruct
Obstruction (n.) That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
Obstruction (n.) The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
Obstruction (n.) The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
Obstructionism (n.) The act or the policy of obstructing progress.
Obstructionist (a.) Of or pertaining to obstructionists.
Obstructionist (n.) One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body.
Obstructive (a.) Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Obstruent (n.) Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.
Obstupefaction (n.) See Stupefaction.
Obstupefactive (a.) Stupefactive.
Obstupefy (v. t.) See Stupefy.
Obtain (v. i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.
Obtain (v. i.) To prevail; to succeed.
Obtain (v. t.) To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.
Obtain (v. t.) To hold; to keep; to possess.
Obtainable (a.) Capable of being obtained.
Obtained (imp. & p. p.) of Obtain
Obtainer (n.) One who obtains.
Obtaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtain
Obtainment (n.) The act or process of obtaining; attainment.
Obtected (a.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.
Obtected (a.) Covered; protected.
Obtemper (v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).
Obtemperate (v. t.) To obey.
Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.
Obtend (v. t.) To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
Obtended (imp. & p. p.) of Obtend
Obtending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtend
Obtenebration (n.) The act of darkening; the state of being darkened; darkness.
Obtension (n.) The act of obtending.
Obtest (v. i.) To protest.
Obtest (v. t.) To beseech; to supplicate; to beg for.
Obtest (v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke as a witness.
Obtestation (n.) The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation.
Obtested (imp. & p. p.) of Obtest
Obtesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtest
Obtrectation (n.) Slander; detraction; calumny.
Obtrude (v. i.) To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude.
Obtrude (v. t.) To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will.
Obtrude (v. t.) To thrust impertinently; to present without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company.
Obtruded (imp. & p. p.) of Obtrude
Obtruder (n.) One who obtrudes.
Obtruding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtrude
Obtruncate (v. t.) To deprive of a limb; to lop.
Obtruncation (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off.
Obtrusion (n.) That which is obtruded.
Obtrusion (n.) The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
Obtrusionist (n.) One who practices or excuses obtrusion.
Obtrusive (a.) Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.
Obtund (v. t.) To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
Obtunded (imp. & p. p.) of Obtund
Obtundent (n.) A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent.
Obtunder (n.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
Obtunding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obtund
Obturation (n.) The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.
Obturator (a.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.
Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate.
Obturator (n.) That which closes or stops an opening.
Obuncous (a.) Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
Obvention (n.) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
Obversant (a.) Conversant; familiar.
Obverse (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
Obverse (a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
Obverse (a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
Obversely (adv.) In an obverse manner.
Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception."
Obversion (n.) The act of turning toward or downward.
Obvert (v. t.) To turn toward.
Obverted (imp. & p. p.) of Obvert
Obverting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obvert
Obviate (v. t.) To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
Obviate (v. t.) To meet in the way.
Obviated (imp. & p. p.) of Obviate
Obviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obviate
Obviation (n.) The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.
Obvious (a.) Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.
Obvious (a.) Exposed; subject; open; liable.
Obvious (a.) Opposing; fronting.
Obvolute (a.) Alt. of Obvoluted
Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.
Oby (n.) See Obi.
Oca (n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.
Occamy (n.) An alloy imitating gold or silver.
Occasion (n.) A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
Occasion (n.) A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
Occasion (n.) A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
Occasion (n.) An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause.
Occasion (n.) Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.
Occasion (v. t.) To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
Occasionable (a.) Capable of being occasioned or caused.
Occasional (a.) Of or pertaining to an occasion or to occasions; occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.
Occasional (a.) Produced by accident; as, the occasional origin of a thing.
Occasionalism (n.) The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
Occasionality (n.) Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.
Occasionally (adv.) In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.
Occasionate (v. t.) To occasion.
Occasioned (imp. & p. p.) of Occasion
Occasioner (n.) One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces.
Occasioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Occasion
Occasive (a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.
Occecation (n.) The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.
Occident (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.
Occidental (a.) Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
Occidental (a.) Possessing inferior hardness, brilliancy, or beauty; -- used of inferior precious stones and gems, because those found in the Orient are generally superior.
Occidentals (n.pl.) Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.
Occiduous (a.) Western; occidental.
Occipita (pl. ) of Occiput
Occipital (a.) Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone.
Occipital (n.) The occipital bone.
Occipito- () A combining form denoting relation to, or situation near, the occiput; as, occipito-axial; occipito-mastoid.
Occipitoaxial (a.) Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.
Occiput (n.) A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.
Occiput (n.) The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.
Occiputs (pl. ) of Occiput
Occision (n.) A killing; the act of killing.
Occlude (v. t.) To shut up; to close.
Occlude (v. t.) To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen.
Occludent (a.) Serving to close; shutting up.
Occludent (n.) That which closes or shuts up.
Occluse (a.) Shut; closed.
Occlusion (n.) The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
Occlusion (n.) The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.
Occrustate (v. t.) To incrust; to harden.
Occult (a.) Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.
Occult (v. t.) To eclipse; to hide from sight.
Occultation (n.) Fig.: The state of being occult.
Occultation (n.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.
Occulted (a.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon.
Occulted (a.) Hidden; secret.
Occulting (n.) Same as Occultation.
Occultism (n.) A certain Oriental system of theosophy.
Occultist (n.) An adherent of occultism.
Occultly (adv.) In an occult manner.
Occultness (n.) State or quality of being occult.
Occupancy (n.) The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation.
Occupant (n.) A prostitute.
Occupant (n.) One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.
Occupate (v. t.) To occupy.
Occupation (n.) That which occupies or engages the time and attention; the principal business of one's life; vocation; employment; calling; trade.
Occupation (n.) The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.
Occupied (imp. & p. p.) of Occupy
Occupier (n.) One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman.
Occupier (n.) One who occupies, or has possession.
Occupy (v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.
Occupy (v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.
Occupy (v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.
Occupy (v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.
Occupy (v. t.) To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five acres of ground.
Occupy (v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.
Occupy (v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.
Occupy (v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.
Occupying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Occupy
Occur (v. i.) To go in order to meet; to make reply.
Occur (v. i.) To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.
Occur (v. i.) To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.
Occur (v. i.) To meet; to clash.
Occurred (imp. & p. p.) of Occur
Occurrence (n.) A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.
Occurrence (n.) Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected; as, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life.
Occurrent (a.) Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
Occurrent (n.) Anything that happens; an occurrence.
Occurrent (n.) One who meets; hence, an adversary.
Occurring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Occur
Occurse (n.) Same as Occursion.
Occursion (n.) A meeting; a clash; a collision.
Ocean (a.) Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
Ocean (n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
Ocean (n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
Ocean (n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.
Oceanic (a.) Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.
Oceanic (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean.
Oceanography (n.) A description of the ocean.
Oceanology (n.) That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
Oceanus (n.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
Ocellary (a.) Of or pertaining to ocelli.
Ocellate (a.) Same as Ocellated.
Ocellated (a.) Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny.
Ocellated (a.) Resembling an eye.
Ocelli (pl. ) of Ocellus
Ocellus (n.) A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.
Ocellus (n.) An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.
Oceloid (a.) Resembling the ocelot.
Ocher (n.) Alt. of Ochre
Ocherous (a.) Alt. of Ochreous
Ochery (a.) Ocherous.
Ochimy (n.) See Occamy.
Ochlesis (n.) A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof.
Ochlocracy (n.) A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy.
Ochlocratic (a.) Alt. of Ochlocratical
Ochlocratical (a.) Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic.
Ochraceous (a.) Ocherous.
Ochre (n.) A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.
Ochre (n.) A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.
Ochre (n.) See Ocher.
Ochrea (n.) A greave or legging.
Ochrea (n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.
Ochreaee (pl. ) of Ochrea
Ochreate (a.) Alt. of Ochreated
Ochreated (a.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.
Ochreated (a.) Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted.
Ochreous (a.) Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.
Ochreous (a.) See Ocherous.
Ochrey (a.) See Ochery.
Ochroleucous (a.) Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow.
Ochry (a.) See Ochery.
Ochymy (n.) See Occamy.
Ocra (n.) See Okra.
Ocrea (n.) See Ochrea.
Ocreate (a.) Alt. of Ocreated
Ocreated (a.) Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.
Octa- () A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.
Octa- () A prefix meaning eight. See Octo-.
Octachord (n.) An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.
Octad (n.) An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.
Octaedral (a.) See Octahedral.
Octaemeron (n.) A fast of eight days before a great festival.
Octagon (n.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.
Octagon (n.) Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.
Octagonal (a.) Having eight sides and eight angles.
Octagynous (a.) Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.
Octahedral (a.) Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage.
Octahedrite (n.) Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.
Octahedron (n.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.
Octamerous (a.) Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.
Octameter (n.) A verse containing eight feet; as, --//Deep# in|to# the | dark#ness | peer#ing, | long# I | stood# there | wond'#ring, | fear#ing.
Octander (n.) One of the Octandria.
Octandria (n.pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.
Octandrian (a.) Alt. of Octandrous
Octandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.
Octane (n.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.
Octangular (a.) Having eight angles; eight-angled.
Octant (n.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
Octant (n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
Octapla (sing.) A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.
Octaroon (n.) See Octoroon.
Octastyle (a.) See Octostyle.
Octateuch (n.) A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.
Octavalent (a.) Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.
Octave (a.) Consisting of eight; eight.
Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
Octave (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
Octave (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
Octave (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.
Octavo (a.) Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
Octavos (pl. ) of Octavo
Octene (n.) Same as Octylene.
Octennial (a.) Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years.
Octet (n.) A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Octic (a.) Of the eighth degree or order.
Octic (n.) A quantic of the eighth degree.
Octile (n.) Same as Octant, 2.
Octo- () Alt. of Octa-
Octoate (n.) A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.
October (n.) Ale or cider made in that month.
October (n.) The tenth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Octocera (n.pl.) Octocerata.
Octocerata (n.pl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda.
Octochord (n.) See Octachord.
Octodecimo (a.) Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
Octodecimos (pl. ) of Octodecimo
Octodentate (a.) Having eight teeth.
Octodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.
Octoedrical (a.) See Octahedral.
Octofid (a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
Octogamy (n.) A marrying eight times.
Octogenarian (n.) A person eighty years, or more, of age.
Octogenary (a.) Of eighty years of age.
Octogild (n.) A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.
Octogonal (a.) See Octagonal.
Octogynia (n.pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.
Octogynian (a.) Alt. of Octogynous
Octogynous (a.) Having eight pistils; octagynous.
Octoic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, octane; -- used specifically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.
Octolocular (a.) Having eight cells for seeds.
Octonaphthene (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.
Octonary (a.) Of or pertaining to the number eight.
Octonocular (a.) Having eight eyes.
Octopede (n.) An animal having eight feet, as a spider.
Octopetalous (a.) Having eight petals or flower leaves.
Octopod (n.) One of the Octocerata.
Octopoda (n.pl.) Same as Arachnida.
Octopoda (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata.
Octopodia (n.pl.) Same as Octocerata.
Octopus (n.) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,
Octoradiated (a.) Having eight rays.
Octoroon (n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Octospermous (a.) Containing eight seeds.
Octostichous (a.) In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.
Octostyle (a.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle.
Octostyle (n.) An octostyle portico or temple.
Octosyllabic (a.) Alt. of Octosyllabical
Octosyllabical (a.) Consisting of or containing eight syllables.
Octosyllable (a.) Octosyllabic.
Octosyllable (n.) A word of eight syllables.
Octoyl (n.) A hypothetical radical (C8H15O), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.
Octroi (n.) A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
Octroi (n.) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.
Octuor (n.) See Octet.
Octuple (a.) Eightfold.
Octyl (n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of octane, and as entering into its derivatives; as, octyl alcohol.
Octylene (n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.
Octylic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, octyl; as, octylic ether.
Ocular (a.) Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
Ocular (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.
Ocular (n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.
Ocularly (adv.) By the eye, or by actual sight.
Oculary (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines.
Oculate (a.) Alt. of Oculated
Oculated (a.) Furnished with eyes.
Oculated (a.) Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.
Oculi (pl. ) of Oculus
Oculiform (a.) In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.
Oculina (n.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture.
Oculinacea (n.pl.) A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.
Oculist (n.) One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
Oculo- () A combining form from L. oculus the eye.
Oculomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit.
Oculomotor (n.) The oculomotor nerve.
Oculonasal (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.
Oculus (n.) A round window, usually a small one.
Oculus (n.) An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.
Ocypodian (n.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.
Odalisque (n.) A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.
Odd (superl.) Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange.
Odd (superl.) Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.
Odd (superl.) Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
Odd (superl.) Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
Odd Fellow () A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
Oddities (pl. ) of Oddity
Oddity (n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
Oddity (n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
Oddly (adv.) In a manner measured by an odd number.
Oddly (adv.) In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously.
Oddly (adv.) In an odd manner; unevently.
Oddness (n.) Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event.
Oddness (n.) The state of being odd, or not even.
Odds (a.) Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability.
Odds (a.) Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.
Ode (n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Odelet (n.) A little or short ode.
Odeum (n.) See Odeon.
Odfend (v. i.) To cause dislike, anger, or vexation; to displease.
Odfend (v. i.) To transgress the moral or divine law; to commit a crime; to stumble; to sin.
Odible (a.) Fitted to excite hatred; hateful.
Odic (a.) Of or pertaining to od. See Od.
Odin (n.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes.
Odinic (a.) Of or pertaining to Odin.
Odious (a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.
Odious (a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
Odist (n.) A writer of an ode or odes.
Odium (n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
Odium (n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Odize (v. t.) To charge with od. See Od.
Odized (imp. & p. p.) of Odize
Odizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Odize
Odmyl (n.) A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.
Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed.
Odometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.
Odometrous (a.) Serving to measure distance on a road.
Odometry (n.) Measurement of distances by the odometer.
Odonata (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.
Odontalgia (n.) Toothache.
Odontalgic (a.) Of or pertaining to odontalgia.
Odontalgic (n.) A remedy for the toothache.
Odontalgy (n.) Same as Odontalgia.
Odontiasis (n.) Cutting of the teeth; dentition.
Odonto- () A combining form from Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth.
Odontoblast (n.) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca.
Odontoblast (n.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.
Odontocete (n.pl.) A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.
Odontogeny (n.) Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth.
Odontograph (n.) An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.
Odontographic (a.) Of or pertaining to odontography.
Odontography (n.) A description of the teeth.
Odontoid (a.) Having the form of a tooth; toothlike.
Odontoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process.
Odontolcae (n. pl.) An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis.
Odontolite (n.) A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.
Odontology (n.) The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.
Odontophora (n.pl.) Same as Cephalophora.
Odontophore (n.) A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.
Odontophorous (a.) Having an odontophore.
Odontoplast (n.) An odontoblast.
Odontopteryx (n.) An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.
Odontornithes (n. pl.) A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcae, Odontotormae, and Saururae.
Odontostomatous (a.) Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects.
Odontotormae (n.pl.) An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis.
Odor (n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
Odorament (n.) A perfume; a strong scent.
Odorant (a.) Yielding odors; fragrant.
Odorate (a.) Odorous.
Odorating (a.) Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.
Odoriferous (a.) Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes.
Odorless (a.) Free from odor.
Odorline (n.) A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil.
Odorous (a.) Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.
Ods (interj.) A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.
Odyl (n.) Alt. of Odyle
Odyle (n.) See Od. [Archaic].
Odylic (a.) Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force.
Odyssey (n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.
Oecoid (n.) The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.
Oecology (n.) The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world.
Oeconomical (a.) See Economical.
Oeconomics (n.) See Economics.
Oeconomy (n.) See Economy.
Oecumenical (a.) See Ecumenical.
Oedema (n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Oedematous (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, edema; affected with edema.
Oeiliad (n.) Alt. of Oeillade
Oeillade (n.) A glance of the eye; an amorous look.
Oelet (n.) An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet.
Oenanthate (n.) A salt of the supposed /nanthic acid.
Oenanthic (a.) Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. Oenanthylic.
Oenanthol (n.) An oily substance obtained by the distillation of castor oil, recognized as the aldehyde of oenanthylic acid, and hence called also oenanthaldehyde.
Oenanthone (n.) The ketone of oenanthic acid.
Oenanthyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical formerly supposed to exist in oenanthic acid, now known to be identical with heptyl.
Oenanthylate (n.) A salt of /nanthylic acid; as, potassium oenanthylate.
Oenanthylic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, oenanthyl; specifically, designating an acid formerly supposed to be identical with the acid in oenanthic ether, but now known to be identical with heptoic acid.
Oenanthylidene (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.
Oenanthylous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid formerly supposed to be the acid of oenanthylic ether, but now known to be a mixture of higher acids, especially capric acid.
Oenocyan (n.) The coloring matter of red wines.
Oenology (n.) Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.
Oenomania (n.) Delirium tremens.
Oenomania (n.) Dipsomania.
Oenomel (n.) Wine mixed with honey; mead,
Oenometer (n.) See Alcoholometer.
Oenophilist (n.) A lover of wine.
Oenothionic (a.) Pertaining to an acid now called sulphovinic, / ethyl sulphuric, acid.
Oes (pl. ) of O
Oesophageal (a.) Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.
Oesophagus (a.) Alt. of Oesophageal
Oestrian (a.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies.
Oestrian (n.) A gadfly.
Oestrual (a.) Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.
Oestruation (n.) The state of being under oestrual influence, or of having sexual desire.
Oestrus (n.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.
Oestrus (n.) A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.
Of (prep.) Denoting identity or equivalence; -- used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba.
Of (prep.) Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.
Of (prep.) Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company.
Of (prep.) Denoting passage from one state to another; from.
Of (prep.) Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven.
Of (prep.) Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements.
Of (prep.) Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.
Of (prep.) Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity.
Of (prep.) Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.
Of (prep.) Denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by.
Of (prep.) Denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water.
Of (prep.) During; in the course of.
Of (prep.) In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:
Off (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.
Off (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
Off (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
Off (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
Off (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
Off (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
Off (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
Off (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
Off (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
Off (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
Offal (n.) A dead body; carrion.
Offal (n.) That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Offcut (n.) A portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.
Offcut (n.) That which is cut off.
Offence (n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.
Offence (n.) See Offense.
Offence (n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.
Offence (n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
Offend (v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.
Offend (v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.
Offend (v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
Offend (v. t.) To strike against; to attack; to assail.
Offend (v. t.) To transgress; to violate; to sin against.
Offendant (n.) An offender.
Offended (imp. & p. p.) of Offend
Offender (n.) One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.
Offending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offend
Offendress (n.) A woman who offends.
Offense (n.) Alt. of Offence
Offenseful (a.) Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
Offensive (a.) Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds.
Offensive (a.) Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
Offensive (n.) The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
Offer (v. i.) To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at.
Offer (v. i.) To present itself; to be at hand.
Offer (v. t.) Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.
Offer (v. t.) That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.
Offer (v. t.) The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.
Offer (v. t.) To attempt; to undertake.
Offer (v. t.) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.
Offer (v. t.) To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.
Offer (v. t.) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.
Offer (v. t.) To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
Offer (v. t.) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
Offerable (a.) Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.
Offered (imp. & p. p.) of Offer
Offerer (n.) One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship.
Offering (n.) That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.
Offering (n.) The act of an offerer; a proffering.
Offering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offer
Offertories (pl. ) of Offertory
Offertory (n.) An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass.
Offertory (n.) That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
Offertory (n.) The act of offering, or the thing offered.
Offertory (n.) The oblation of the elements.
Offertory (n.) The offerings themselves.
Offertory (n.) The Scripture sentences said or sung during the collection of the offerings.
Offhand (adv.) In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
Office (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
Office (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
Office (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
Office (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
Office (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
Office (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
Office (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
Office (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
Officeholder (n.) An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
Officer (n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.
Officer (v. t.) To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.
Officer (v. t.) To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
Officered (imp. & p. p.) of Officer
Officering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Officer
Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
Official (a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
Official (n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
Official (n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
Official (n.) Discharging an office or function.
Official (n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
Officialily (n.) See Officialty.
Officialism (n.) The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.
Officialty (n.) The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official.
Officiant (n.) The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office.
Officiary (a.) Of or pertaining to an office or an officer; official.
Officiate (v. i.) To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
Officiate (v. t.) To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.
Officiated (imp. & p. p.) of Officiate
Officiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Officiate
Officiator (n.) One who officiates.
Officinal (a.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
Officinal (a.) Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
Officious (a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
Officious (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
Officious (a.) Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
Offing (n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.
Offish (a.) Shy or distant in manner.
Offlet (n.) A pipe to let off water.
Offscouring (n.) That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.
Offscum (n.) Removed scum; refuse; dross.
Offset (imp. & p. p.) of Offset
Offset (n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off.
Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.
Offset (n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
Offset (n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
Offset (n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.
Offset (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
Offset (n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
Offset (v. i.) To make an offset.
Offset (v. t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
Offset (v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
Offsetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offset
Offshoot (n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Offshore (a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
Offskip (n.) That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance.
Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
Offuscate () Alt. of Offuscation
Offuscation () See Obfuscate, Obfuscation.
Oft (a.) Frequent; often; repeated.
Oft (adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
Often (a.) Frequent; common; repeated.
Often (adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.
Oftenness (n.) Frequency.
Oftensith (adv.) Frequently; often.
Oftentide (adv.) Frequently; often.
Oftentimes (adv.) Frequently; often; many times.
Ofter (adv.) Compar. of Oft.
Ofttimes (adv.) Frequently; often.
Ogam (n.) Same as Ogham.
Ogdoad (n.) A thing made up of eight parts.
Ogdoastich (n.) A poem of eight lines.
Ogee (n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.
Ogee (n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose.
Ogeechee lime () The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.
Ogeechee lime () The tree which bears this fruit.
Ogganition (n.) Snarling; grumbling.
Ogham (n.) A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc.
Ogive (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
Ogle (n.) An amorous side glance or look.
Ogle (v. t.) To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice.
Ogled (imp. & p. p.) of Ogle
Ogler (n.) One who ogles.
Ogling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ogle
Oglio (n.) See Olio.
Ogre (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.
Ogreish (a.) Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.
Ogreism (n.) Alt. of Ogrism
Ogress (n.) A female ogre.
Ogrism (n.) The character or manners of an ogre.
Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity.
Oh (interj.) An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.
Oho (interj.) An exclamation of surprise, etc.
Oil (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Oilbird (n.) See Guacharo.
Oilcloth (n.) Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.
Oiled (a.) Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.
Oiled (imp. & p. p.) of Oil
Oiler (n.) One who deals in oils.
Oiler (n.) One who, or that which, oils.
Oilery (n.) The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.
Oiliness (n.) The quality of being oily.
Oiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oil
Oillet (n.) A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.
Oillet (n.) A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediaeval fortifications.
Oilman (n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.
Oilmen (pl. ) of Oilman
Oilnut (n.) The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.
Oilseed (n.) A cruciferous herb (Camelina sativa).
Oilseed (n.) Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.
Oilseed (n.) The sesame.
Oilskin (n.) Cloth made waterproof by oil.
Oilstone (n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
Oily (superl.) Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.
Oily (superl.) Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
Ointment (n.) That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.
Ojibways (n. pl.) Same as Chippeways.
Ojo (n.) A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis.
Oke (n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.
Oke (n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints.
Okenite (n.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.
Oker (n.) See Ocher.
Okra (n.) An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.
Olay (n. pl.) Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel.
Old (n.) Open country.
Old (superl.) Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.
Old (superl.) Continued in life; advanced in the course of existence; having (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old.
Old (superl.) Formerly existing; ancient; not modern; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise.
Old (superl.) Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to new land, that is, to land lately cleared.
Old (superl.) Long practiced; hence, skilled; experienced; cunning; as, an old offender; old in vice.
Old (superl.) More than enough; abundant.
Old (superl.) Not new or fresh; not recently made or produced; having existed for a long time; as, old wine; an old friendship.
Old (superl.) Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree.
Old (superl.) Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.
Old (superl.) Used colloquially as a term of cordiality and familiarity.
Old (superl.) Worn out; weakened or exhausted by use; past usefulness; as, old shoes; old clothes.
Old lang syne () See Auld lang syne.
Old-fashioned (a.) Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl.
Old-gentlemanly (a.) Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one.
Old-maidish (a.) Like an old maid; prim; precise; particular.
Old-maidism (n.) The condition or characteristics of an old maid.
Old-womanish (a.) Like an old woman; anile.
Olden (a.) Old; ancient; as, the olden time.
Olden (v. i.) To grow old; to age.
Oldish (a.) Somewhat old.
Oldness (n.) The state or quality of being old; old age.
Oldster (n.) An old person.
Olea (n.) A genus of trees including the olive.
Oleaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Oleaceae), mostly trees and shrubs, of which the olive is the type. It includes also the ash, the lilac, the true jasmine, and fringe tree.
Oleaginous (a.) Having the nature or qualities of oil; oily; unctuous.
Oleaginousness (n.) Oiliness.
Oleamen (n.) A soft ointment prepared from oil.
Oleandrine (n.) One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.
Oleaster (n.) Any species of the genus Elaeagus. See Eleagnus. The small silvery berries of the common species (Elaeagnus hortensis) are called Trebizond dates, and are made into cakes by the Arabs.
Oleaster (n.) The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).
Oleate (n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.
Olecranal (a.) Of or pertaining to the olecranon.
Olecranon (n.) The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.
Olefiant (a.) Forming or producing an oil; specifically, designating a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon called ethylene.
Olefine (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.
Oleograph (n.) A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.
Oleograph (n.) The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.
Oleomargarine (n.) A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.
Oleomargarine (n.) An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk.
Oleometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight and purity of oil; an elaiometer.
Oleone (n.) An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.
Oleoptene (n.) See Eleoptene.
Oleoresin (n.) A liquid or semiliquid preparation extracted (as from capsicum, cubebs, or ginger) by means of ether, and consisting of fixed or volatile oil holding resin in solution.
Oleoresin (n.) A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.
Oleose (a.) Alt. of Oleous
Oleosity (n.) The state or quality of being oily or fat; fatness.
Oleous (a.) Oily.
Oleraceous (a.) Pertaining to pot herbs; of the nature or having the qualities of herbs for cookery; esculent.
Olf (n.) The European bullfinch.
Olfaction (n.) The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.
Olfactive (a.) See Olfactory, a.
Olfactor (n.) A smelling organ; a nose.
Olfactories (pl. ) of Olfactory
Olfactory (a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells.
Olfactory (n.) An olfactory organ; also, the sense of smell; -- usually in the plural.
Oliban (n.) See Olibanum.
Olibanum (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.
Olibene (n.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.
Olid (a.) Alt. of Olidous
Olidous (a.) Having a strong, disagreeable smell; fetid.
Olifant (n.) An ancient horn, made of ivory.
Olifant (n.) An elephant.
Oligandrous (a.) Having few stamens.
Oliganthous (a.) Having few flowers.
Oligarch (n.) A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.
Oligarchal (a.) Oligarchic.
Oligarchic (a.) Alt. of Oligarchical
Oligarchical (a.) Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few.
Oligarchies (pl. ) of Oligarchy
Oligarchist (n.) An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.
Oligarchy (n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few.
Oligist (a.) Alt. of Oligistic
Oligist (a.) Hematite or specular iron ore; -- prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite.
Oligistic (a.) Of or pertaining to hematite.
Oligo- () A combining form from Gr. /, few, little, small.
Oligocene (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods.
Oligocene (n.) The Oligocene period. See the Chart of Geology.
Oligochaeta (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species.
Oligochete (a.) Of or pertaining to the Oligochaeta.
Oligoclase (n.) A triclinic soda-lime feldspar. See Feldspar.
Oligomerous (a.) Having few members in each set of organs; as, an oligomerous flower.
Oligomyold (a.) Having few or imperfect syringeal muscles; -- said of some passerine birds (Oligomyodi).
Oligopetalous (a.) Having few petals.
Oligosepalous (a.) Having few sepals.
Oligosiderite (n.) A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.
Oligospermous (a.) Having few seeds.
Oligotokous (a.) Producing few young.
Olio (n.) A collection of miscellaneous pieces.
Olio (n.) A dish of stewed meat of different kinds.
Olio (n.) A mixture; a medley.
Olitory (a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes; as, olitory seeds.
Oliva (n.) A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored.
Olivaceous (a.) Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olive-green.
Olivary (a.) Like an olive.
Olivaster (a.) Of the color of the olive; tawny.
Olive (a.) Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Olive (n.) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
Olive (n.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.
Olive (n.) Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
Olive (n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
Olive (n.) The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Olive (n.) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
Olive (n.) The oyster catcher.
Olived (a.) Decorated or furnished with olive trees.
Olivenite (n.) An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.
Oliver (n.) A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
Oliver (n.) An olive grove.
Oliver (n.) An olive tree.
Oliverian (n.) An adherent of Oliver Cromwell.
Olivewood (n.) An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elaeodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
Olivewood (n.) The wood of the olive.
Olivil (n.) A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties.
Olivin (n.) A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite.
Olivine (n.) A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
Olivite (n.) See Olivin.
Olla (n.) A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.
Olla (n.) A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.
Olla-podrida (n.) A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.
Olla-podrida (n.) Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection; an olio.
Ology (n.) A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.
Olpe (n.) Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.
Olusatrum (n.) An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum).
Olympian (a.) Alt. of Olympic
Olympic (a.) Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis.
Olympionic (n.) An ode in honor of a victor in the Olympic games.
Omagra (n.) Gout in the shoulder.
Omahas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.
Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
Omasum (n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.
Omber (n.) Alt. of Ombre
Ombre (n.) A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.
Ombre (n.) A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.
Ombrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge.
Omega (n.) The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.
Omega (n.) The last; the end; hence, death.
Omegoid (a.) Having the form of the Greek capital letter Omega (/).
Omelet (n.) Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.
Omen (n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
Omen (v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.
Omened (a.) Attended by, or containing, an omen or omens; as, happy-omened day.
Omened (imp. & p. p.) of Omen
Omening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Omen
Omenta (pl. ) of Omentum
Omental (a.) Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
Omentum (n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon.
Omer (n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.
Omiletical (a.) Homiletical.
Ominate (v. t. & i.) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.
Omination (n.) The act of ominating; presaging.
Omissible (a.) Capable of being omitted; that may be omitted.
Omission (n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.
Omission (n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
Omissive (a.) Leaving out; omitting.
Omit (v. t.) To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
Omit (v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Omittance (n.) The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect.
Omitted (imp. & p. p.) of Omit
Omitter (n.) One who omits.
Omitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Omit
Ommatea (pl. ) of Ommateum
Ommateal (a.) Of or pertaining to an ommateum.
Ommateum (n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.
Ommatidia (pl. ) of Ommatidium
Ommatidium (n.) One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates.
Omni- () A combining form denoting all, every, everywhere; as in omnipotent, all-powerful; omnipresent.
Omnibus (n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.
Omnibus (n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts.
Omnicorporeal (a.) Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
Omniety (n.) That which is all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, the Deity.
Omnifarious (a.) Of all varieties, forms, or kinds.
Omniferous (a.) All-bearing; producing all kinds.
Omnific (a.) All-creating.
Omniform (a.) Having every form or shape.
Omniformity (n.) The condition or quality of having every form.
Omnify (v. t.) To render universal; to enlarge.
Omnigenous (a.) Consisting of all kinds.
Omnigraph (n.) A pantograph.
Omniparient (a.) Producing or bringing forth all things; all-producing.
Omniparity (n.) Equality in every part; general equality.
Omniparous (a.) Producing all things; omniparient.
Omnipatient (a.) Capable of enduring all things.
Omnipercipience (n.) Alt. of Omnipercipiency
Omnipercipiency (n.) Perception of everything.
Omnipercipient (a.) Perceiving everything.
Omnipotence (n.) Alt. of Omnipotency
Omnipotency (n.) The state of being omnipotent; almighty power; hence, one who is omnipotent; the Deity.
Omnipotency (n.) Unlimited power of a particular kind; as, love's omnipotence.
Omnipotent (a.) Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent.
Omnipotent (a.) Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as, omnipotent love.
Omnipotently (adv.) In an omnipotent manner.
Omnipresence (n.) Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity.
Omnipresency (n.) Omnipresence.
Omnipresent (a.) Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah.
Omnipresential (a.) Implying universal presence.
Omniprevalent (a.) Prevalent everywhere or in all things.
Omniscience (n.) The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God.
Omnisciency (n.) Omniscience.
Omniscient (a.) Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God.
Omniscious (a.) All-knowing.
Omnispective (a.) Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing.
Omnium (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.
Omnium-gatherum (n.) A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley.
Omnivagant (a.) Wandering anywhere and everywhere.
Omnivora (n. pl.) A group of ungulate mammals including the hog and the hippopotamus. The term is also sometimes applied to the bears, and to certain passerine birds.
Omnivorous (a.) All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zool.), eating both animal and vegetable food.
Omo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the shoulder or the scapula.
Omohyoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.
Omophagic (a.) Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food; as, omophagic feasts, rites.
Omoplate (n.) The shoulder blade, or scapula.
Omostegite (n.) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.
Omosternal (a.) Of or pertaining to the omosternum.
Omosternum (n.) In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle.
Omosternum (n.) The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.
Omphacine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or expressed from, unripe fruit; as, omphacine oil.
Omphalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
Omphalo- () A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the umbilicus, or navel.
Omphalocele (n.) A hernia at the navel.
Omphalode (n.) The central part of the hilum of a seed, through which the nutrient vessels pass into the rhaphe or the chalaza; -- called also omphalodium.
Omphalomancy (n.) Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have.
Omphalomesaraic (a.) Omphalomesenteric.
Omphalomesenteric (a.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus and mesentery; omphalomesaraic; as, the omphalomesenteric arteries and veins of a fetus.
Omphalopsychite (n.) A name of the Hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.
Omphalopter (n.) Alt. of Omphaloptic
Omphaloptic (n.) An optical glass that is convex on both sides.
Omphalos (n.) The navel.
Omphalotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the navel-string.
Omy (a.) Mellow, as land.
On (prep.) Adhering; not off; as in the phrase, "He is neither on nor off," that is, he is not steady, he is irresolute.
On (prep.) At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor. See At (synonym).
On (prep.) At or near; adjacent to; -- indicating situation, place, or position; as, on the one hand, on the other hand; the fleet is on the American coast.
On (prep.) At the peril of, or for the safety of.
On (prep.) At the time of, conveying some notion of cause or motive; as, on public occasions, the officers appear in full dress or uniform. Hence, in consequence of, or following; as, on the ratification of the treaty, the armies were disbanded.
On (prep.) At, or in contact with, the surface or upper part of a thing, and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, the book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island.
On (prep.) Attached to the body, as clothing or ornament, or for use.
On (prep.) By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor.
On (prep.) Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind.
On (prep.) Forward, in progression; onward; -- usually with a verb of motion; as, move on; go on.
On (prep.) Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on.
On (prep.) In addition to; besides; -- indicating multiplication or succession in a series; as, heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss; thought on thought.
On (prep.) In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on.
On (prep.) In progress; proceeding; as, a game is on.
On (prep.) In reference or relation to; as, on our part expect punctuality; a satire on society.
On (prep.) In the service of; connected with; of the number of; as, he is on a newspaper; on a committee.
On (prep.) Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in; as, to depend on a person for assistance; to rely on; hence, indicating the ground or support of anything; as, he will promise on certain conditions; to bet on a horse.
On (prep.) Occupied with; in the performance of; as, only three officers are on duty; on a journey.
On (prep.) Of.
On (prep.) The general signification of on is situation, motion, or condition with respect to contact or support beneath
On (prep.) To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth.
On (prep.) To the account of; -- denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon; as, on us be all the blame; a curse on him.
On (prep.) Toward; for; -- indicating the object of some passion; as, have pity or compassion on him.
On dit () They say, or it is said.
On dit (n.) A flying report; rumor; as, it is a mere on dit.
On-hanger (n.) A hanger-on.
On-looker (n.) A looker-on.
On-looking (a.) Looking on or forward.
Onager (n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.
Onager (n.) A wild ass, especially the koulan.
Onagers (pl. ) of Onager
Onagga (n.) The dauw.
Onagraceous (a.) Alt. of Onagrarieous
Onagrarieous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Onagraceae or Onagrarieae), which includes the fuchsia, the willow-herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose (/nothera).
Onagri (pl. ) of Onager
Onanism (n.) Self-pollution; masturbation.
Onappo (n.) A nocturnal South American monkey (Callithrix discolor), noted for its agility; -- called also ventriloquist monkey.
Once (adv.) At any one time; -- often nearly equivalent to ever, if ever, or whenever; as, once kindled, it may not be quenched.
Once (adv.) At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely.
Once (adv.) By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one.
Oncidium (n.) A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.
Oncograph (n.) An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.
Oncometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body, as the kidney, spleen, etc.
Oncotomy (n.) The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument.
Onde (n.) Hatred; fury; envy.
One (a.) Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.
One (a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.
One (a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.
One (a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.
One (a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.
One (a.) Single; inmarried.
One (indef. pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.
One (n.) A single person or thing.
One (n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.
One (n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.
One (v. t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.
One-hand (a.) Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.
One-horse (a.) Drawn by one horse; having but a single horse; as, a one-horse carriage.
One-horse (a.) Second-rate; inferior; small.
One-sided (a.) Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers.
One-sided (a.) Having one side only, or one side prominent; hence, limited to one side; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement.
Oneberry (n.) The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.
Oneidas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in the State of New York, and forming part of the Five Nations. Remnants of the tribe now live in New York, Canada, and Wisconsin.
Oneirocritic (a.) Alt. of Oneirocritical
Oneirocritic (a.) An interpreter of dreams.
Oneirocritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams.
Oneirocriticism (n.) Alt. of Oneirocritics
Oneirocritics (n.) The art of interpreting dreams.
Oneiromancy (n.) Divination by means of dreams.
Oneiroscopist (n.) One who interprets dreams.
Oneiroscopy (n.) The interpretation of dreams.
Oneliness (n.) The state of being one or single.
Onely (a.) See Only.
Onement (n.) The state of being at one or reconciled.
Oneness (n.) The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity.
Onerary (a.) Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.
Onerate (v. t.) To load; to burden.
Onerated (imp. & p. p.) of Onerate
Onerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Onerate
Oneration (n.) The act of loading.
Onerous (a.) Burdensome; oppressive.
Onerously (adv.) In an onerous manner.
Ones (adv.) Once.
Oneself (pron.) A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self.
Onethe (adv.) Scarcely. See Unnethe.
Ongoing (n.) The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.
Onguent (n.) An unguent.
Onion (n.) A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.
Onirocritic (a.) See Oneirocritic.
Onliness (n.) The state of being alone.
Onloft (adv.) Aloft; above ground.
Only (a.) Above all others; particularly.
Only (a.) Alone in its class; by itself; not associated with others of the same class or kind; as, an only child.
Only (a.) Hence, figuratively: Alone, by reason of superiority; preeminent; chief.
Only (a.) In one manner or degree; for one purpose alone; simply; merely; barely.
Only (a.) One alone; single; as, the only man present; his only occupation.
Only (a.) Singly; without more; as, only-begotten.
Only (a.) So and no otherwise; no other than; exclusively; solely; wholly.
Only (conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration.
Onocerin (n.) A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant Ononis spinosa.
Onology (n.) Foolish discourse.
Onomancy (n.) Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.
Onomantic (a.) Alt. of Onomantical
Onomantical (a.) Of or pertaining to onomancy.
Onomastic (a.) Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting.
Onomasticon (n.) A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.
Onomatechny (n.) Prognostication by the letters of a name.
Onomatologist (n.) One versed in the history of names.
Onomatology (n.) The science of names or of their classification.
Onomatope (n.) An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.
Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.
Onomatopoeic (a.) Onomatopoetic.
Onomatopoetic (a.) Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word.
Onomatopy (n.) Onomatopoeia.
Onomomancy (n.) See Onomancy.
Onondagas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting what is now a part of the State of New York. They were the central or head tribe of the Five Nations.
Onrush (n.) A rushing onward.
Onset (n.) A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
Onset (n.) A setting about; a beginning.
Onset (n.) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
Onset (v. t.) To assault; to set upon.
Onset (v. t.) To set about; to begin.
Onslaught (n.) A bloody fray or battle.
Onslaught (n.) An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.
Onstead (n.) A single farmhouse; a steading.
Onto (prep.) On the top of; upon; on. See On to, under On, prep.
Ontogenesis (n.) Alt. of Ontogeny
Ontogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena.
Ontogenic (a.) Ontogenetic.
Ontogeny (n.) The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.
Ontologic (a.) Ontological.
Ontological (a.) Of or pertaining to ontology.
Ontologically (adv.) In an ontological manner.
Ontologist (n.) One who is versed in or treats of ontology.
Ontology (n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.
Onus (n.) A burden; an obligation.
Onward (a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.
Onward (a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
Onward (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.
Onwardness (n.) Progress; advancement.
Onwards (adv.) Onward.
Ony (a.) Any.
Onycha (n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.
Onycha (n.) The precious stone called onyx.
Onychia (n.) A whitlow.
Onychia (n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.
Onychomancy (n.) Divination by the nails.
Onychophora (n. pl.) Malacopoda.
Onyx (n.) Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground.
Oo (a.) One.
Oo (n.) A beautiful bird (Moho nobilis) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.
Ooecia (pl. ) of Ooecium
Ooecium (n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.
Oogenesis (n.) The development, or mode of origin, of the ova.
Oogonia (pl. ) of Oogonium
Oogonium (n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae.
Oogoniums (pl. ) of Oogonium
Ooidal (a.) Shaped like an egg.
Ook (n.) Oak.
Oolite (n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology.
Oolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to oolite; composed of, or resembling, oolite.
Oological (a.) Of or pertaining to oology.
Oologist (n.) One versed in oology.
Oology (n.) The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.
Oolong (n.) A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea.
Oomiac (n.) Alt. of Oomiak
Oomiak (n.) A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos.
Oon (a.) One.
Oones (adv.) Once.
Oop (v. t.) To bind with a thread or cord; to join; to unite.
Oopack (n.) Alt. of Oopak
Oopak (n.) A kind of black tea.
Oophorectomy (n.) Ovariotomy.
Oophoric (a.) Having the nature of, or belonging to, an oophore.
Oophorida (pl. ) of Oophoridium
Oophoridium (n.) The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spores in heterosporous flowerless plants.
Oophoridiums (pl. ) of Oophoridium
Oophoritis (n.) Ovaritis.
Oophytic (a.) Of or pertaining to an oophyte.
Oorial (n.) A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.
Oospere (n.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.
Oospere (n.) An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium.
Oosperm (n.) The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.
Oosporangia (pl. ) of Oosporangium
Oosporangium (n.) An oogonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores.
Oosporangiums (pl. ) of Oosporangium
Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Oospore (n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.
Oosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.
Oostegite (n.) One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.
Ootheca (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.
Oothecae (pl. ) of Ootheca
Ootocoid (n.) A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.
Ootooid (n.) Alt. of Ootocoid
Ootype (n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.
Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.
Ooze (n.) Soft flow; spring.
Ooze (n.) Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
Ooze (n.) The liquor of a tan vat.
Ooze (n.) To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
Ooze (v. t.) To cause to ooze.
Oozed (imp. & p. p.) of Ooze
Oozing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ooze
Oozoa (n. pl.) Same as Acrita.
Oozy (a.) Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river.
Opacate (v. t.) To darken; to cloud.
Opacity (n.) Obscurity; want of clearness.
Opacity (n.) The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.
Opacous (a.) Opaque.
Opacular (a.) Opaque.
Opah (n.) A large oceanic fish (Lampris quttatus), inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean. It is remarkable for its brilliant colors, which are red, green, and blue, with tints of purple and gold, covered with round silvery spots. Called also king of the herrings.
Opake (a.) See Opaque.
Opal (n.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity.
Opalesce (v. i.) To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.
Opalesced (imp. & p. p.) of Opalesce
Opalescence (n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.
Opalescent (a.) Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
Opalescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Opalesce
Opaline (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.
Opalize (v. t.) To convert into opal, or a substance like opal.
Opalized (imp. & p. p.) of Opalize
Opalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Opalize
Opalotype (n.) A picture taken on "milky" glass.
Opaque (a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.
Opaque (a.) Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
Opaque (n.) That which is opaque; opacity.
Opaqueness (n.) The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity.
Oparcular (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, an operculum.
Ope (a.) Open.
Ope (v. t. & i.) To open.
Opelet (n.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, / Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles.
Open (a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Open (a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.
Open (a.) Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.
Open (a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.
Open (a.) Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.
Open (a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.
Open (a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.
Open (a.) Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.
Open (a.) Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.
Open (a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.
Open (a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.
Open (a.) Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.
Open (n.) Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.
Open (v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.
Open (v. i.) To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
Open (v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.
Open (v. i.) To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.
Open (v. t.) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
Open (v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.
Open (v. t.) To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.
Open (v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.
Open (v. t.) To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.
Open (v. t.) To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
Open-air (a.) Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
Open-eyed (a.) With eyes widely open; watchful; vigilant.
Open-handed (a.) Generous; liberal; munificent.
Open-headed (a.) Bareheaded.
Open-hearted (a.) Candid; frank; generous.
Open-mouthed (a.) Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous.
Openbill (n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak.
Opened (imp. & p. p.) of Open
Opener (n.) One who, or that which, opens.
Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
Opening (n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.
Opening (n.) Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.
Opening (n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
Opening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Open
Openly (adv.) In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.
Openly (adv.) Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently.
Openness (n.) The quality or state of being open.
Openwork (n.) A quarry; an open cut.
Openwork (n.) Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
Opera (n.) The house where operas are exhibited.
Opera (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.
Opera (pl. ) of Opus
Operable (a.) Practicable.
Operameter (n.) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter.
Operance (n.) Alt. of Operancy
Operancy (n.) The act of operating or working; operation.
Operand (n.) The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.
Operant (a.) Operative.
Operant (n.) An operative person or thing.
Operate (v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
Operate (v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
Operate (v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
Operate (v. i.) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
Operate (v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
Operate (v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
Operate (v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
Operated (imp. & p. p.) of Operate
Operatic (a.) Alt. of Operatical
Operatical (a.) Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
Operating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Operate
Operation (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Operation (n.) Effect produced; influence.
Operation (n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
Operation (n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
Operation (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operation (n.) The method of working; mode of action.
Operative (a.) Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.
Operative (a.) Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.
Operative (a.) Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.
Operative (n.) A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.
Operatively (adv.) In an operative manner.
Operator (n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
Operator (n.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
Operator (n.) One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
Operator (n.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
Operatory (n.) A laboratory.
Opercle (n.) An operculum.
Opercle (n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.
Opercula (n. pl.) See Operculum.
Opercula (pl. ) of Operculum
Opercular (n.) The principal opercular bone or operculum of fishes.
Operculate (a.) Alt. of Operculated
Operculated (a.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.
Operculated (a.) Having an operculum, or an apparatus for protecting the gills; -- said of shells and of fishes.
Operculiferous (a.) Bearing an operculum.
Operculiform (a.) Having the form of a lid or cover.
Operculigenous (a.) Producing an operculum; -- said of the foot, or part of the foot, of certain mollusks.
Operculum (n.) Any lid-shaped structure closing the aperture of a tube or shell.
Operculum (n.) Any lidlike or operculiform process or part; as, the opercula of a dental follicle.
Operculum (n.) The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid.
Operculum (n.) The lid closing the aperture of various species of shells, as the common whelk. See Illust. of Gastropoda.
Operculum (n.) The lid of a pitcherform leaf.
Operculum (n.) The lid of the urnlike capsule of mosses.
Operculum (n.) The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover.
Operculums (pl. ) of Operculum
Operetta (n.) A short, light, musical drama.
Operose (a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
Operosity (n.) Laboriousness.
Operous (a.) Operose.
Opertaneous (a.) Concealed; private.
Opetide (n.) Open time; -- applied to different things
Opetide (n.) The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening.
Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Opetide (n.) The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng.]
Ophelic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a substance (called ophelic acid) extracted from a plant (Ophelia) of the Gentian family as a bitter yellowish sirup, used in India as a febrifuge and tonic.
Ophicleide (n.) A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas.
Ophidia (n. pl.) The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.
Ophidia (pl. ) of Ophidion
Ophidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophidia; belonging to serpents.
Ophidian (n.) One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.
Ophidioid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophidiidae, a family of fishes which includes many slender species.
Ophidioid (n.) One of the Ophidiidae.
Ophidion (n.) The typical genus of ophidioid fishes. [Written also Ophidium.] See Illust. under Ophidioid.
Ophidious (a.) Ophidian.
Ophiolatry (n.) The worship of serpents.
Ophiologic (a.) Alt. of Ophiological
Ophiological (a.) Of or pertaining to ophiology.
Ophiologist (n.) One versed in the natural history of serpents.
Ophiology (n.) That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.
Ophiomancy (n.) Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils.
Ophiomorphite (n.) An ammonite.
Ophiomorphous (a.) Having the form of a serpent.
Ophiophagous (a.) Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.
Ophiophagus (n.) A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes.
Ophite (a.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
Ophite (a.) Of or pertaining to a serpent.
Ophite (n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.
Ophiuchus (n.) A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; -- called also Serpentarius.
Ophiura (n.) A genus of ophiurioid starfishes.
Ophiuran (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.
Ophiuran (n.) One of the Ophiurioidea.
Ophiurid (n.) Same as Ophiurioid.
Ophiurida (n. pl.) Same as Ophiurioidea.
Ophiurioid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.
Ophiurioid (n.) One of the Ophiurioidea.
Ophiurioidea (n. pl.) Alt. of Ophiuroidea
Ophiuroidea (n. pl.) A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star.
Ophryon (n.) The supraorbital point.
Ophthalmia (n.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.
Ophthalmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead.
Ophthalmite (n.) An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.
Ophthalmological (a.) Of or pertaining to ophthalmology.
Ophthalmologist (n.) One skilled in ophthalmology; an oculist.
Ophthalmology (n.) The science which treats of the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye.
Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained.
Ophthalmoscope (n.) An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens.
Ophthalmoscopy (n.) A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a person's temper and character from the appearance of the eyes.
Ophthalmoscopy (n.) Examination of the eye with the ophthalmoscope.
Ophthalmy (n.) Same as Ophthalmia.
Opianic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the oxidation of narcotine.
Opianine (n.) An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.
Opianyl (n.) Same as Meconin.
Opiate (a.) Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes.
Opiate (n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.
Opiate (n.) Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.
Opiate (n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium.
Opiate (v. t.) To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.
Opiated (a.) Mixed with opiates.
Opiated (a.) Under the influence of opiates.
Opie (n.) Opium.
Opiferous (a.) Bringing help.
Opifice (n.) Workmanship.
Opificer (n.) An artificer; a workman.
Opinable (a.) Capable of being opined or thought.
Opination (n.) The act of thinking; a supposition.
Opinative (a.) Obstinate in holding opinions; opinionated.
Opinator (n.) One fond of his own opinious; one who holds an opinion.
Opine (v. t. & i.) To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.
Opined (imp. & p. p.) of Opine
Opiner (n.) One who opines.
Opiniaster (a.) Alt. of Opiniatre
Opiniastrous (a.) See Opiniaster. [Obs.].
Opiniated (a.) Opinionated.
Opiniative (a.) Opinionative.
Opiniator (n.) Alt. of Opiniatre
Opiniatre (a.) Opinionated.
Opiniatre (a.) See Opiniaster.
Opiniatre (n.) One who is opinionated.
Opiniatrety (n.) Obstinacy in opinious.
Opinicus (n.) An imaginary animal borne as a charge, having wings, an eagle's head, and a short tail; -- sometimes represented without wings.
Opining (n.) Opinion.
Opining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Opine
Opinion (n.) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
Opinion (n.) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
Opinion (n.) That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.
Opinion (n.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
Opinion (n.) The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
Opinion (v. t.) To opine.
Opinionable (a.) Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine.
Opinionate (a.) Opinionated.
Opinionated (a.) Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion.
Opinionately (adv.) Conceitedly.
Opinionatist (n.) An opinionist.
Opinionative (a.) Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured.
Opinionative (a.) Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated.
Opinionator (n.) An opinionated person; one given to conjecture.
Opinioned (a.) Opinionated; conceited.
Opinionist (n.) One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions.
Opinlate (v. t.) To hold or maintain persistently.
Opiparous (a.) Sumptuous.
Opisometer (n.) An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.
Opisthion (n.) The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.
Opisthobranchia (n. pl.) Alt. of Opisthobranchiata
Opisthobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.
Opisthobranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata.
Opisthobranchiate (n.) One of the Opisthobranchiata.
Opisthocoelian (a.) Alt. of Opisthocoelous
Opisthocoelous (a.) Concave behind; -- applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.
Opisthodome (n.) A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.
Opisthoglypha (n. pl.) A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.
Opisthography (n.) A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side.
Opisthomi (n. pl.) An order of eellike fishes having the scapular arch attached to the vertebrae, but not connected with the skull.
Opisthopulmonate (a.) Having the pulmonary sac situated posteriorly; -- said of certain air-breathing Mollusca.
Opisthotic (n.) The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.
Opisthotonos (n.) A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.
Opitulation (n.) The act of helping or aiding; help.
Opium (n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Ople tree () The witch-hazel.
Opobalsam (n.) Alt. of Opobalsamum
Opobalsamum (n.) The old name of the aromatic resinous juice of the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, now commonly called balm of Gilead. See under Balm.
Opodeldoc (n.) A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries.
Opodeldoc (n.) A saponaceous, camphorated liniment; a solution of soap in alcohol, with the addition of camphor and essential oils; soap liniment.
Opossum (n.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana.
Oppidan (a.) Of or pertaining to a town.
Oppidan (n.) A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.
Oppidan (n.) An inhabitant of a town.
Oppignerate (v. i.) To pledge; to pawn.
Oppilate (v. t.) To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.
Oppilated (imp. & p. p.) of Oppilate
Oppilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oppilate
Oppilation (n.) The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines.
Oppilative (a.) Obstructive.
Opplete (a.) Alt. of Oppleted
Oppleted (a.) Filled; crowded.
Oppletion (n.) The act of filling up, or the state of being filled up; fullness.
Oppone (v. t.) To oppose.
Opponency (n.) The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree.
Opponent (a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.
Opponent (n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.
Opportunism (n.) The art or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances, or of seeking immediate advantage with little regard for ultimate consequences.
Opportunist (n.) One who advocates or practices opportunism.
Opportunities (pl. ) of Opportunity
Opportunity (n.) Convenience of situation; fitness.
Opportunity (n.) Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
Opportunity (n.) Importunity; earnestness.
Opposability (n.) The condition or quality of being opposable.
Opposable (a.) Capable of being opposed or resisted.
Opposable (a.) Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
Opposal (n.) Opposition.
Oppose (n.) To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize.
Oppose (n.) To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
Oppose (n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.
Oppose (n.) To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand; as, to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress.
Oppose (v. i.) To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act.
Oppose (v. i.) To be set opposite.
Oppose (v. i.) To make objection or opposition in controversy.
Opposed (imp. & p. p.) of Oppose
Opposeless (a.) Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible.
Opposer (n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
Opposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oppose
Opposite (a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.
Opposite (a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.
Opposite (a.) Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
Opposite (a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.
Opposite (n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.
Opposite (n.) That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite.
Oppositely (adv.) In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.
Oppositeness (n.) The quality or state of being opposite.
Oppositifolious (a.) Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
Opposition (n.) Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.
Opposition (n.) That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.
Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.
Opposition (n.) The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.
Opposition (n.) The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.
Oppositionist (n.) One who belongs to the opposition party.
Oppositipetalous (a.) Placed in front of a petal.
Oppositisepalous (a.) Placed in front of a sepal.
Oppositive (a.) Capable of being put in opposition.
Oppress (v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
Oppress (v. t.) To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.
Oppress (v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.
Oppress (v. t.) To ravish; to violate.
Oppressed (imp. & p. p.) of Oppress
Oppressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oppress
Oppression (n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
Oppression (n.) Ravishment; rape.
Oppression (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.
Oppression (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
Oppressive (a.) Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe.
Oppressive (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
Oppressive (a.) Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands.
Oppressor (n.) One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Opprobrious (a.) Infamous; despised; rendered hateful; as, an opprobrious name.
Opprobrium (n.) Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.
Opprobry (n.) Opprobrium.
Oppugn (v. t.) To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.
Oppugnancy (n.) The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance.
Oppugnant (a.) Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.
Oppugnant (n.) An opponent.
Oppugnation (n.) Opposition.
Oppugned (imp. & p. p.) of Oppugn
Oppugner (n.) One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes.
Oppugning (p pr. & vb. n.) of Oppugn
Opsimathy (n.) Education late in life.
Opsiometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the limits of distincts vision in different individuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight.
Opsonation (n.) A catering; a buying of provisions.
Optable (a.) That may be chosen; desirable.
Optate (v. i.) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
Optation (n.) The act of optating; a wish.
Optative (a.) Expressing desire or wish.
Optative (n.) Something to be desired.
Optative (n.) The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.
Optatively (adv.) In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
Optic (a.) Alt. of Optical
Optic (a.) An eyeglass.
Optic (a.) The organ of sight; an eye.
Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.
Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to vision or sight.
Optical (a.) Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works.
Optically (adv.) By optics or sight; with reference to optics.
Optician (a.) One skilled in optics.
Optician (a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.
Optics (n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
Optigraph (a.) A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.
Optimacy (n.) Collectively, the nobility.
Optimacy (n.) Government by the nobility.
Optimate (a.) Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.
Optimate (n.) A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.
Optimates (n. pl.) The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares.
Optime (n.) One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.
Optimism (n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.
Optimism (n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
Optimist (n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
Optimist (n.) One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.
Optimistic (a.) Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
Optimistic (a.) Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
Optimity (n.) The state of being best.
Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845.
Option (n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
Option (n.) A wishing; a wish.
Option (n.) The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
Option (n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
Optional (a.) Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay.
Optional (n.) See Elective, n.
Optionally (adv.) In an optional manner.
Optocoele (n.) Alt. of Optocoelia
Optocoelia (n.) The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals.
Optogram (n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.
Optometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses.
Opulence (n.) Wealth; riches; affluence.
Opulency (n.) See Opulence.
Opulent (a.) Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen.
Opuntia (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig.
Opus (n.) A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.
Opuscle (n.) Alt. of Opuscule
Opuscula (pl. ) of Opusculum
Opuscule (n.) A small or petty work.
Opusculum (n.) An opuscule.
Opye (n.) Opium.
Oquassa (n.) A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.
Or (n.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
Or (prep. & adv.) Ere; before; sooner than.
Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
Ora (pl. ) of Os
Orabassu (n.) A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp.
Orach (n.) Alt. of Orache
Orache (n.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.
Oracle (n.) A wise sentence or decision of great authority.
Oracle (n.) Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.
Oracle (n.) Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.
Oracle (n.) One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.
Oracle (n.) The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.
Oracle (n.) The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.
Oracle (n.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
Oracle (v. i.) To utter oracles.
Oracled (imp. & p. p.) of Oracle
Oracling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oracle
Oracular (a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.
Oracular (a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.
Oraculous (a.) Oracular; of the nature of an oracle.
Oragious (a.) Stormy.
Oraison (n.) See Orison.
Oral (a.) Of or pertaining to the mouth; surrounding or lining the mouth; as, oral cilia or cirri.
Oral (a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.
Orally (adv.) By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally.
Orally (adv.) In an oral manner.
Orang (n.) See Orang-outang.
Orang-outang (n.) An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang.
Orange (a.) Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow; as, an orange ribbon.
Orange (n.) The color of an orange; reddish yellow.
Orange (n.) The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.
Orange (n.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.
Orangeade (n.) A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
Orangeism (n.) Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
Orangeroot (n.) An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
Orangery (n.) A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
Orangetawny (a. & n.) Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow.
Orangite () An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.
Orarian (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.
Oration (v. i.) To deliver an oration.
Orator (n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
Orator (n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
Orator (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
Oratorial (a.) Oratorical.
Oratorian (a.) Oratorical.
Oratorian (n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
Oratorical (a.) Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
Oratories (pl. ) of Oratory
Oratorio (n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition.
Oratorious (a.) Oratorical.
Oratorize (v. i.) To play the orator.
Oratory (n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
Oratory (n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
Oratress (n.) A woman who makes public addresses.
Oratrix (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
Orb (n.) A blank window or panel.
Orb (n.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Orb (n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
Orb (n.) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
Orb (n.) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
Orb (n.) A sphere of action.
Orb (n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
Orb (n.) One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
Orb (n.) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
Orb (v. i.) To become round like an orb.
Orb (v. t.) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
Orb (v. t.) To form into an orb or circle.
Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
Orbation (n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.
Orbicular (a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.
Orbiculate (a.) Alt. of Orbiculated
Orbiculate (n.) That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
Orbiculated (a.) Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline.
Orbiculation (n.) The state or quality of being orbiculate; orbicularness.
Orbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orb
Orbit (n.) An orb or ball.
Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
Orbit (n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
Orbital (a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.
Orbitar (a.) Orbital.
Orbitary (a.) Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
Orbitelae (n. pl.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
Orbitolites (n.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
Orbitonasal (a.) Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
Orbitosphenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone.
Orbitosphenoid (n.) The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
Orbitosphenoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
Orbituary (a.) Orbital.
Orbitude (n.) Alt. of Orbity
Orbity (n.) Orbation.
Orbulina (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.
Orby (a.) Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving.
Orc (n.) The grampus.
Orcadian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
Orcein (n.) A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
Orchal (n.) See Archil.
Orchanet (n.) Same as Alkanet, 2.
Orchard (n.) A garden.
Orchard (n.) An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
Orcharding (n.) Orchards, in general.
Orcharding (n.) The cultivation of orchards.
Orchardist (n.) One who cultivates an orchard.
Orchel (n.) Archil.
Orchesography (n.) A treatise upon dancing.
Orchester (n.) See Orchestra.
Orchestian (n.) Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidae. See Beach flea, under Beach.
Orchestra (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
Orchestra (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
Orchestra (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
Orchestra (n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
Orchestra (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
Orchestral (a.) Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
Orchestration (n.) The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
Orchestre (n.) See Orchestra.
Orchestric (a.) Orchestral.
Orchestrion (n.) A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.
Orchid (n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
Orchidean (a.) Orchidaceous.
Orchideous (a.) Same as Orchidaceous.
Orchidologist (n.) One versed in orchidology.
Orchidology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
Orchil (n.) See Archil.
Orchilla weed () The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.
Orchis (n.) Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
Orchises (pl. ) of Orchis
Orchitis (n.) Inflammation of the testicles.
Orchotomy (n.) The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
Orcin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
Ord (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.
Ordain (v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Ordain (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
Ordainable (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
Ordained (imp. & p. p.) of Ordain
Ordainer (n.) One who ordains.
Ordaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordain
Ordainment (n.) Ordination.
Ordal (n.) Ordeal.
Ordalian (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Ordeal (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Ordeal (n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
Ordeal (n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
Order (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
Order (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
Order (n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
Order (n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
Order (n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
Order (n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
Order (n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
Order (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
Order (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Order (n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
Order (n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
Order (n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
Order (v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.
Orderable (a.) Capable of being ordered; tractable.
Ordered (imp. & p. p.) of Order
Orderer (n.) One who gives orders.
Orderer (n.) One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
Orderless (a.) Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
Orderlies (pl. ) of Orderly
Orderliness (n.) The state or quality of being orderly.
Orderly (a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
Orderly (a.) Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.
Orderly (a.) Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.
Orderly (a.) Performed in good or established order; well-regulated.
Orderly (adv.) According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.
Orderly (n.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
Orderly (n.) A street sweeper.
Ordinability (n.) Capability of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinable (a.) Capable of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinal (a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
Ordinal (a.) Of or pertaining to an order.
Ordinal (n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.
Ordinal (n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.
Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
Ordinalism (n.) The state or quality of being ordinal.
Ordinance (n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.
Ordinarily (adv.) According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe.
Ordinary (a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
Ordinary (a.) Common; customary; usual.
Ordinary (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
Ordinary (n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
Ordinary (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
Ordinary (n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
Ordinary (n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Ordinary (n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
Ordinate (v. t.) To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
Ordinately (adv.) In an ordinate manner; orderly.
Ordination (n.) Disposition; arrangement; order.
Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.
Ordnance (n.) Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
Ordonnance (n.) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
Ordonnant (a.) Of or pertaining to ordonnance.
Ordovian (a. & n.) Ordovician.
Ordovician (a.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian.
Ordovician (n.) The Ordovician formation.
Ordure (n.) Defect; imperfection; fault.
Ordure (n.) Dung; excrement; faeces.
Ordurous (a.) Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
Ore (n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
Ore (n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
Oread (n.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
Oreades (n. pl.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
Orectic (a.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
Oregon grape () An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
Oreide (n.) See Oroide.
Oreodon (n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
Oreodont (a.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
Oreographic (a.) Of or pertaining to oreography.
Oreography (n.) The science of mountains; orography.
Oreoselin (n.) A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
Oreosoma (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
Oreweed (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Orewood (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Orf (n.) Alt. of Orfe
Orfe (n.) A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.
Orfgild (n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
Orfray (n.) The osprey.
Orfrays (n.) See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Orgal (n.) See Argol.
Organ (n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
Organ (n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
Organ (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
Organ (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
Organdie (n.) Alt. of Organdy
Organdy (n.) A kind of transparent light muslin.
Organic (a.) Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
Organic (a.) Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
Organic (a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.
Organical (a.) Organic.
Organically (adv.) In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally.
Organicalness (n.) The quality or state of being organic.
Organicism (n.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.
Organific (a.) Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs.
Organism (n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Organism (n.) Organic structure; organization.
Organist (n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.
Organist (n.) One who plays on the organ.
Organista (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
Organity (n.) Organism.
Organizability (n.) Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.
Organizable (a.) Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
Organization (n.) an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life.
Organization (n.) That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism
Organization (n.) The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.
Organization (n.) The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition.
Organize (v. t.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
Organize (v. t.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
Organized (imp. & p. p.) of Organize
Organizer (n.) One who organizes.
Organizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Organize
Organling (n.) A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.
Organo- () A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.
Organogenesis (n.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
Organogenesis (n.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
Organogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to organogenesis.
Organogeny (n.) Organogenesis.
Organographic (a.) Alt. of Organographical
Organographical (a.) Of or pertaining to organography.
Organographist (n.) One versed in organography.
Organography (n.) A description of the organs of animals or plants.
Organoleptic (a.) Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.
Organological (a.) Of or relating to organology.
Organology (n.) That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.
Organology (n.) The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.
Organometallic (a.) Metalorganic.
Organon (n.) Alt. of Organum
Organonymy (n.) The designation or nomenclature of organs.
Organophyly (n.) The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly.
Organoplastic (a.) Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.
Organoscopy (n.) Phrenology.
Organotrophic (a.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.
Organule (n.) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense.
Organy (n.) See Origan.
Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.
Orgasm (n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.
Orgeat (n.) A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.
Orgeis (n.) See Organling.
Orgiastic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.
Orgies (n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.
Orgies (n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.
Orgies (pl. ) of Orgy
Orgillous (a.) Proud; haughty.
Orgue (n.) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
Orgue (n.) Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
Orgulous (a.) See Orgillous.
Orgy (n.) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
Orgyia (n.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.
Oricalche (n.) See Orichalch.
Orichalceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass.
Orichalch (n.) A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.
Oriel (n.) A bay window. See Bay window.
Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.
Oriel (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.
Oriency (n.) Brightness or strength of color.
Orient (a.) Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
Orient (a.) Eastern; oriental.
Orient (a.) Rising, as the sun.
Orient (n.) A pearl of great luster.
Orient (n.) The countries of Asia or the East.
Orient (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
Orient (v. t.) Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.
Orient (v. t.) To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.
Oriental (a.) Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries.
Oriental (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
Oriental (n.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.
Orientalism (n.) Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.
Orientalism (n.) Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc.
Orientalist (n.) An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
Orientalist (n.) One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists.
Orientality (n.) The quality or state of being oriental or eastern.
Orientalize (v. t.) to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
Orientalized (imp. & p. p.) of Orientalize
Orientalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orientalize
Orientate (v. i.) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
Orientate (v. t.) To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
Orientate (v. t.) To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.
Orientated (imp. & p. p.) of Orientate
Orientating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orientate
Orientation (n.) An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.
Orientation (n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
Orientation (n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
Orientation (n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.
Orientness (n.) The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor.
Orifice (n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.
Oriflamb (n.) Alt. of Oriflamme
Oriflamme (n.) A standard or ensign, in battle.
Oriflamme (n.) The ancient royal standard of France.
Origan (n.) Alt. of Origanum
Origanum (n.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram (O. vulgare).
Origenism (n.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved.
Origenist (n.) A follower of Origen of Alexandria.
Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Origin (n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
Origin (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Originable (a.) Capable of being originated.
Original (a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
Original (a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
Original (a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
Original (a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
Original (n.) A person of marked eccentricity.
Original (n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator.
Original (n.) Origin; commencement; source.
Original (n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
Original (n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
Originalist (n.) One who is original.
Originality (n.) The quality or state of being original.
Originally (adv.) At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand.
Originally (adv.) In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.
Originalness (n.) The quality of being original; originality.
Originant (a.) Originating; original.
Originary (a.) Causing existence; productive.
Originary (a.) Primitive; primary; original.
Originate (v. i.) To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.
Originate (v. t.) To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
Originated (imp. & p. p.) of Originate
Originating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Originate
Origination (n.) Mode of production, or bringing into being.
Origination (n.) The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
Originative (a.) Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.
Originator (n.) One who originates.
Orillon (n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.
Oriol (n.) See Oriel.
Oriole (n.) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.
Oriole (n.) In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard.
Orion (n.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.
Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.
Orismological (a.) Of or pertaining to orismology.
Orismology (n.) That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.
Orison (n.) A prayer; a supplication.
Orisont (n.) Horizon.
Ork (n.) See Orc.
Orkneyan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands.
Orle (n.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
Orleans (n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.
Orleans (n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum.
Orlo (n.) A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards.
Orlop (n.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.
Ormer (n.) An abalone.
Ormuzd (n.) The good principle, or being, of the ancient Persian religion. See Ahriman.
Orn (v. t.) To ornament; to adorn.
Ornament (n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
Ornament (v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
Ornamental (a.) Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
Ornamentally (adv.) By way of ornament.
Ornamentation (n.) That which ornaments; ornament.
Ornamentation (n.) The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
Ornamented (imp. & p. p.) of Ornament
Ornamenter (n.) One who ornaments; a decorator.
Ornamenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ornament
Ornate (a.) Adorned; decorated; beautiful.
Ornate (a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.
Ornate (v. t.) To adorn; to honor.
Ornately (adv.) In an ornate manner.
Ornateness (n.) The quality of being ornate.
Ornature (n.) Decoration; ornamentation.
Ornithic (a.) Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils.
Ornithichnite (n.) The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone.
Ornithichnology (n.) The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites.
Ornitho- () A combining form fr. Gr. /, /, a bird.
Ornithodelphia (n. pl.) Same as Monotremata.
Ornithoidichnite (n.) A fossil track resembling that of a bird.
Ornitholite (n.) A stone of various colors bearing the figures of birds.
Ornitholite (n.) The fossil remains of a bird.
Ornithologic (a.) Alt. of Ornithological
Ornithological (a.) Of or pertaining to ornithology.
Ornithologist (n.) One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.
Ornithology (n.) A treatise or book on this science.
Ornithology (n.) That branch of zoology which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.
Ornithomancy (n.) Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
Ornithon (n.) An aviary; a poultry house.
Ornithopappi (n. pl.) An extinct order of birds. It includes only the Archaeopteryx.
Ornithorhynchus (n.) See Duck mole, under Duck.
Ornithosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.
Ornithoscelida (n. pl.) A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds.
Ornithoscopy (n.) Observation of birds and their habits.
Ornithotomical (a.) Of or pertaining to ornithotomy.
Ornithotomist (n.) One who is skilled in ornithotomy.
Ornithotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of birds.
Orographic (a.) Alt. of Orographical
Orographical (a.) Of or pertaining to orography.
Orography (n.) That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.
Orohippus (n.) A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.
Oroide (n.) An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy.
Orological (a.) Of or pertaining to orology.
Orologist (n.) One versed in orology.
Orology (n.) The science or description of mountains.
Orotund (a.) Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.
Orotund (n.) The orotund voice or utterance
Orotundity (n.) The orotund mode of intonation.
Orphaline (n.) See Orpheline.
Orphan (a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
Orphan (v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
Orphanage (n.) An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
Orphanage (n.) The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
Orphancy (n.) Orphanhood.
Orphaned (imp. & p. p.) of Orphan
Orphanet (n.) A little orphan.
Orphanhood (n.) The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.
Orphaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orphan
Orphanism (n.) Orphanhood.
Orphanotrophism (n.) The care and support of orphans.
Orphanotrophy (n.) A hospital for orphans.
Orphanotrophy (n.) The act of supporting orphans.
Orpharion (n.) An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.
Orphean (a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains.
Orpheline (n.) An orphan.
Orpheus (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Orphic (a.) Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns.
Orphrey (n.) A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics.
Orpin (n.) A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
Orpin (n.) The orpine.
Orpine (n.) A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever.
Orrach (n.) See Orach.
Orreries (pl. ) of Orrery
Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
Orris (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
Orris (n.) A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.
Orris (n.) A sort of gold or silver lace.
Orsedew (n.) Alt. of Orsedue
Orsedue (n.) Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.
Orseille (n.) See Archil.
Orsellic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid.
Orsellinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.
Ort (n.) A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural.
Ortalidian (n.) Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.
Orthid (n.) A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.
Orthis (n.) An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.
Orthite (n.) A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.
Ortho- () A combining form (also used adjectively)
Ortho- () A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.
Ortho- () Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as, an ortho compound.
Ortho- () The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal.
Orthocarbonic (a.) Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4.
Orthocenter (n.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
Orthoceras (n.) An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.
Orthoceratite (n.) An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.
Orthoclase (n.) Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. See Feldspar.
Orthoclastic (a.) Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.
Orthodiagonal (n.) The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.
Orthodome (n.) See the Note under Dome, 4.
Orthodox (a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.
Orthodox (a.) Approved; conventional.
Orthodox (a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.
Orthodoxal (a.) Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.
Orthodoxality (n.) Orthodoxness.
Orthodoxally (adv.) Orthodoxly.
Orthodoxastical (a.) Orthodox.
Orthodoxical (a.) Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.
Orthodoxly (adv.) In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith.
Orthodoxness (n.) The quality or state of being orthodox; orthodoxy.
Orthodoxy (n.) By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.
Orthodoxy (n.) Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
Orthodoxy (n.) Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
Orthodromic (a.) Of or pertaining to orthodromy.
Orthodromics (n.) The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.
Orthodromy (n.) The act or art of sailing on a great circle.
Orthoepic (a.) Alt. of Orthoepical
Orthoepical (a.) Of or pertaining to orthoepy, or correct pronunciation.
Orthoepist (n.) One who is skilled in orthoepy.
Orthoepy (n.) The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.
Orthogamy (n.) Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.
Orthognathic (a.) Orthognathous.
Orthognathism (n.) The quality or state of being orthognathous.
Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
Orthogon (n.) A rectangular figure.
Orthogonal (a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another.
Orthogonally (adv.) Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.
Orthographer (n.) One versed in orthography; one who spells words correctly.
Orthographic (a.) Alt. of Orthographical
Orthographical (a.) Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.
Orthographical (a.) Of or pertaining to right lines or angles.
Orthographically (adv.) according to orthographic projection.
Orthographically (adv.) according to the rules of proper spelling
Orthographically (adv.) In an orthographical manner
Orthographist (n.) One who spells words correctly; an orthographer.
Orthographize (v. t.) To spell correctly or according to usage; to correct in regard to spelling.
Orthography (n.) A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.
Orthography (n.) The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.
Orthography (n.) The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.
Orthology (n.) The right description of things.
Orthometric (a.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.
Orthometry (n.) The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the laws of correct versification.
Orthomorphic (a.) Having the right form.
Orthopedic (a.) Alt. of Orthopedical
Orthopedical (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.
Orthopedist (n.) One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.
Orthopedy (n.) The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.
Orthophony (n.) The art of correct articulation; voice training.
Orthopinacoid (n.) A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.
Orthopn/a (n.) Alt. of Orthopny
Orthopny (n.) Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.
Orthopoda (n. pl.) An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts.
Orthopraxy (n.) The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.
Orthoptera (n. pl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect.
Orthopteran (n.) One of the Orthoptera.
Orthopterous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orthoptera.
Orthorhombic (a.) Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.
Orthoscope (n.) An instrument designed to show the condition of the superficial portions of the eye.
Orthoscopic (a.) Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as, an orthoscopic eyepiece.
Orthosilicic (a.) Designating the form of silicic acid having the normal or highest number of hydroxyl groups.
Orthospermous (a.) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous.
Orthostade (n.) A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds.
Orthostichies (pl. ) of Orthostichy
Orthostichy (n.) A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.
Orthotomic (a.) Cutting at right angles.
Orthotomous (a.) Having two cleavages at right angles with one another.
Orthotomy (n.) The property of cutting at right angles.
Orthotone (a.) Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.
Orthotropal (a.) Alt. of Orthotropous
Orthotropic (a.) Having the longer axis vertical; -- said of erect stems.
Orthotropous (a.) Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.
Orthoxylene (n.) That variety of xylene in which the two methyl groups are in the ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon resembling benzene.
Ortive (a.) Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.
Ortolan (n.) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.
Ortolan (n.) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.
Ortolan (n.) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe).
Orts (pl. ) of Ort
Ortygan (n.) One of several species of East Indian birds of the genera Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. See Turnix.
Orval (n.) A kind of sage (Salvia Horminum).
Orvet (n.) The blindworm.
Orvietan (n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.
Oryal (n.) Alt. of Oryall
Oryall (n.) See Oriel.
Oryctere (n.) The aard-vark.
Orycterope (n.) Same as Oryctere.
Oryctognosy (n.) Mineralogy.
Oryctography (n.) Description of fossils.
Oryctological (a.) Of or pertaining to oryctology.
Oryctologist (n.) One versed in oryctology.
Oryctology (n.) An old name for mineralogy and geology.
Oryctology (n.) An old name for paleontology.
Oryx (n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia.
Oryza (n.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice.
Os (n.) A bone.
Os (n.) A mouth; an opening; an entrance.
Os (n.) One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.
Osages (n. pl.) A tribe of southern Sioux Indians, now living in the Indian Territory.
Osanne (n.) Hosanna.
Osar (n. pl.) See 3d Os.
Osar (pl. ) of Os
Oscan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.
Oscan (n.) The language of the Osci.
Oscillancy (n.) The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
Oscillaria (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.
Oscillate (v. i.) To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.
Oscillate (v. i.) To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth.
Oscillated (imp. & p. p.) of Oscillate
Oscillating (a.) That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.
Oscillating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oscillate
Oscillation (n.) Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
Oscillation (n.) The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
Oscillative (a.) Tending to oscillate; vibratory.
Oscillatoria (n. pl.) Same as Oscillaria.
Oscillatory (a.) Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.
Oscine (a.) Relating to the Oscines.
Oscines (n. pl.) Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
Oscinian (n.) Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.
Oscinian (n.) One of the Oscines, or singing birds.
Osculant (a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
Osculant (a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
Osculate (v. i.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.
Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
Osculate (v. t.) To kiss.
Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
Osculated (imp. & p. p.) of Osculate
Osculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Osculate
Osculation (n.) The act of kissing; a kiss.
Osculation (n.) The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve.
Osculatory (a.) Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
Osculatory (a.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.
Osculatory (n.) Same as Pax, 2.
Osculatrixes (pl. ) of Osculatrix
Oscule (n.) One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
Osculum (n.) Same as Oscule.
Osier (a.) Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
Osier (n.) A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
Osier (n.) One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
Osiered (a.) Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks.
Osiery (n.) An osier bed.
Osiris (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
Osmanli (n.) A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk.
Osmanlis (pl. ) of Osmanli
Osmate (n.) A salt of osmic acid.
Osmateria (pl. ) of Osmaterium
Osmaterium (n.) One of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.
Osmazome (n.) A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.
Osmiamate (n.) A salt of osmiamic acid.
Osmiamic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.
Osmic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.
Osmidrosis (n.) The secretion of fetid sweat.
Osmious (a.) Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride.
Osmite (n.) A salt of osmious acid.
Osmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.
Osmometry (n.) The study of osmose by means of the osmometer.
Osmose (n.) The action produced by this tendency.
Osmosis (n.) Osmose.
Osmotic (a.) Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.
Osnaburg (n.) A species of coarse linen, originally made in Osnaburg, Germany.
Oso-berry (n.) The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceae.
Osphradia (pl. ) of Osphradium
Osphradium (n.) The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.
Ospray (n.) The fishhawk.
Osprey (n.) Alt. of Ospray
Oss (n.) To prophesy; to presage.
Ossa (pl. ) of Os
Osse (n.) A prophetic or ominous utterance.
Ossean (n.) A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.
Osselet (n.) A little bone.
Osselet (n.) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.
Osseous (a.) Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
Osseter (n.) A species of sturgeon.
Ossianic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
Ossicle (n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
Ossicle (n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.
Ossicula (pl. ) of Ossiculum
Ossiculated (a.) Having small bones.
Ossiculum (n.) Same as Ossicle.
Ossiferous (a.) Containing or yielding bone.
Ossific (a.) Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.
Ossification (n.) The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.
Ossification (n.) The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.
Ossified (a.) Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
Ossified (imp. & p. p.) of Ossify
Ossifrage (n.) The lammergeir.
Ossifrage (n.) The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle.
Ossifragous (a.) Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.
Ossify (v. i.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.
Ossify (v. t.) Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.
Ossify (v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
Ossifying (a.) Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.
Ossifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ossify
Ossivorous (a.) Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds.
Osspringer (n.) The osprey.
Ossuarium (n.) A charnel house; an ossuary.
Ossuary (n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
Ost (n.) See Oast.
Osteal (a.) Osseous.
Ostein (n.) Ossein.
Osteitis (n.) Inflammation of bone.
Osteler (n.) Same as Hosteler.
Ostend (v. t.) To exhibit; to manifest.
Ostensibility (n.) The quality or state of being ostensible.
Ostensible (a.) Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.
Ostensible (a.) Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim.
Ostensibly (adv.) In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently.
Ostension (n.) The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants.
Ostensive (a.) Showing; exhibiting.
Ostensively (adv.) In an ostensive manner.
Ostensorium (n.) Alt. of Ostensory
Ostensory (n.) Same as Monstrance.
Ostent (n.) Appearance; air; mien.
Ostent (n.) Manifestation; token; portent.
Ostentate (v. t.) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
Ostentation (n.) A show or spectacle.
Ostentation (n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
Osteoblast (n.) One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.
Osteoclasis (n.) The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.
Osteoclast (n.) A myeloplax.
Osteoclast (n.) An instrument for performing osteoclasis.
Osteocolla (n.) A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.
Osteocolla (n.) A kind of glue obtained from bones.
Osteocomma (n.) A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra.
Osteocommas (pl. ) of Osteocomma
Osteocommata (pl. ) of Osteocomma
Osteocope (n.) Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone.
Osteocranium (n.) The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.
Osteodentine (n.) A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.
Osteogen (n.) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.
Osteogenesis (n.) Alt. of Osteogeny
Osteogenetic (a.) Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.
Osteogenic (a.) Osteogenetic.
Osteogeny (n.) The formation or growth of bone.
Osteographer (n.) An osteologist.
Osteography (n.) The description of bones; osteology.
Osteoid (a.) Resembling bone; bonelike.
Osteolite (n.) A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.
Osteologer (n.) One versed in osteology; an osteologist.
Osteologic (a.) Alt. of Osteological
Osteological (a.) Of or pertaining to osteology.
Osteologist (n.) One who is skilled in osteology; an osteologer.
Osteology (n.) The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.
Osteoma (n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.
Osteomalacia (n.) A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.
Osteomanty (n.) Divination by means of bones.
Osteomata (pl. ) of Osteoma
Osteomere (n.) An osteocomma.
Osteophone (n.) An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
Osteoplast (n.) An osteoblast.
Osteoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the replacement of bone; as, an osteoplastic operation.
Osteoplasty (n.) An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied.
Osteopterygious (a.) Having bones in the fins, as certain fishes.
Osteosarcoma (n.) A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.
Osteosarcomata (pl. ) of Osteosarcoma
Osteotome (n.) Strong nippers or a chisel for dividing bone.
Osteotomist (n.) One skilled in osteotomy.
Osteotomy (n.) The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.
Osteotomy (n.) The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc.
Osteozoa (n. pl.) Same as Vertebrata.
Ostia (pl. ) of Ostium
Ostiary (n.) One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
Ostiary (n.) The mouth of a river; an estuary.
Ostic (a.) Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians.
Ostiole (n.) Any small orifice.
Ostiole (n.) The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate.
Ostitis (n.) See Osteitis.
Ostium (n.) An opening; a passage.
Ostler (n.) See Hostler.
Ostleress (n.) A female ostler.
Ostlery (n.) See Hostelry.
Ostmen (n. pl.) East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called.
Ostosis (n.) Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.
Ostracea (n. pl.) A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.
Ostracean (n.) Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
Ostracion (n.) A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.
Ostraciont (n.) A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.
Ostracism (n.) Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
Ostracism (n.) Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
Ostracite (n.) A fossil oyster.
Ostracize (v. t.) To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
Ostracize (v. t.) To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
Ostracized (imp. & p. p.) of Ostracize
Ostracizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ostracize
Ostracoda (n. pl.) Ostracoidea.
Ostracodermi (n. pl.) A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.
Ostracoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ostracoidea.
Ostracoid (n.) One of the Ostracoidea.
Ostracoidea (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about.
Ostrea (n.) A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.
Ostreaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to an oyster, or to a shell; shelly.
Ostreaculture (n.) The artificial cultivation of oysters.
Ostrogoth (n.) One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth.
Ostrogothic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
Oswego tea () An American aromatic herb (Monarda didyma), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers.
Otacoustic (a.) Assisting the sense of hearing; as, an otacoustic instrument.
Otacoustic (n.) Alt. of Otacousticon
Otacousticon (n.) An instrument to facilitate hearing, as an ear trumpet.
Otaheite apple () A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree (Jambosa Malaccensis) which bears crimson berries.
Otaheite apple () The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree (Spondias dulcis), also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.
Otalgia (n.) Pain in the ear; earache.
Otalgic (a.) Of or pertaining to otalgia.
Otalgic (n.) A remedy for otalgia.
Otalgy (n.) Pain in the ear; otalgia.
Otaries (pl. ) of Otary
Otary (n.) Any eared seal.
Otheoscope (n.) An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter.
Other (adv.) Otherwise.
Other (conj.) Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
Other (pron. & a.) Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
Other (pron. & a.) Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
Other (pron. & a.) Left, as opposed to right.
Other (pron. & a.) Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
Othergates (adv.) In another manner.
Otherguess (a. & adv.) Of another kind or sort; in another way.
Otherguise (a. & adv.) Alt. of Otherguess
Otherness (n.) The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
Otherways (adv.) See Otherwise.
Otherwhere (adv.) In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere.
Otherwhile (adv.) Alt. of Otherwhiles
Otherwhiles (adv.) At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.
Otherwise (adv.) In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
Otherwise (adv.) In different circumstances; under other conditions; as, I am engaged, otherwise I would accept.
Otherwise (adv.) In other respects.
Othman (n. & a.) See Ottoman.
Otic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.
Otiose (a.) Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
Otiosity (n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.
Otis (n.) A genus of birds including the bustards.
Otitis (n.) Inflammation of the ear.
Oto- () A combining form denoting relation to, or situation near or in, the ear.
Otoba fat () A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.
Otoconite (n.) A mass of otoliths.
Otoconite (n.) An otolith.
Otocrane (n.) The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.
Otocranial (a.) Of or pertaining to the otocrane.
Otocyst (n.) An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.
Otography (n.) A description of the ear.
Otolite (n.) One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.
Otolith (n.) Alt. of Otolite
Otolithic (a.) Alt. of Otolitic
Otolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to otoliths.
Otological (a.) Of or pertaining tootology.
Otologist (n.) One skilled in otology; an aurist.
Otology (n.) The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.
Otopathy (n.) A diseased condition of the ear.
Otorrh/a (n.) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.
Otoscope (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Otoscopeic (a.) Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
Otoscopy (n.) The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.
Otosteal (n.) An auditory ossicle.
Otozoum (n.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.
Ottar (n.) See Attar.
Ottawas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.
Otter (n.) A corruption of Annotto.
Otter (n.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines.
Otto (n.) See Attar.
Ottoman (a.) Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.
Ottoman (n.) A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.
Ottoman (n.) A Turk.
Ottomans (pl. ) of Ottoman
Ottomite (n.) An Ottoman.
Ottrelite (n.) A micaceous mineral occurring in small scales. It is characteristic of certain crystalline schists.
Ouakari (n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Brachyurus, especially B. ouakari.
Ouanderoo (n.) The wanderoo.
Ouarine (n.) A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.
Oubliette (n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall.
Ouch (n.) A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.
Oueen-post (n.) One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
Oueen-post (n.) One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
Oughne (a.) Own.
Ought () of Owe
Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Owned; possessed.
Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
Ought (n. & adv.) See Aught.
Oughtness (n.) The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness.
Oughwhere (adv.) Anywhere; somewhere. See Owher.
Ouistiti (n.) See Wistit.
Oul (n.) An awl.
Oul (n.) An owl.
Oulachan (n.) Same as Eulachon.
Ounce (n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains.
Ounce (n.) Fig.: A small portion; a bit.
Ounce (n.) The twelfth part of a troy pound.
Ounded (a.) Alt. of Oundy
Ounding (vb. n.) Waving.
Oundy (a.) Wavy; waving/ curly.
Ouphe (n.) A fairy; a goblin; an elf.
Ouphen (a.) Elfish.
Our (pl. ) of I
Our (possessive pron.) Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I.
Ourang (n.) The orang-outang.
Ourang-outang (n.) See Orang-outang.
Ouranographist (n.) See Uranographist.
Ouranography (n.) See Uranography.
Ourebi (n.) A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.
Ouretic (a.) Uric.
Ourology (n.) See Urology.
Ouroscopy (n.) Ourology.
Ours (pl. ) of I
Ours (possessive pron.) See Note under Our.
Ourselves (pl. ) of Myself
Ourselves (pron.) ; sing. Ourself (/). An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural; -- used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the predicate, in the nominative or the objective case.
Ouse (n. & v.) See Ooze.
Ousel (n.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).
Oust (n.) See Oast.
Oust (v. t.) To eject; to turn out.
Oust (v. t.) To take away; to remove.
Ousted (imp. & p. p.) of Oust
Ouster (n.) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.
Ousting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oust
Out (a.) Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.
Out (a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.
Out (a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.
Out (a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.
Out (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
Out (interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.
Out (n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.
Out (n.) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
Out (n.) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural.
Out (v. i.) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
Out (v. t.) To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.
Out (v. t.) To come out with; to make known.
Out (v. t.) To give out; to dispose of; to sell.
Out-Herod (v. t.) To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular.
Out-of-door (a.) Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. See Out of door, under Out, adv.
Out-of-the-way (a.) See under Out, adv.
Out-patient (n.) A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
Outact (v. t.) To do or beyond; to exceed in acting.
Outagamies (n. pl.) See lst Fox, 7.
Outargue (v. t.) To surpass or conquer in argument.
Outbabble (v. t.) To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling.
Outbade () of Outbid
Outbalance (v. t.) To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect.
Outbar (v. t.) To bar out.
Outbeg (v. t.) To surpass in begging.
Outbid (imp.) of Outbid
Outbid (p. p.) of Outbid
Outbid (v. t.) To exceed or surpass in bidding.
Outbidden () of Outbid
Outbidder (n.) One who outbids.
Outbidding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outbid
Outbleat (v. t.) To surpass in bleating.
Outblown (a.) Inflated with wind.
Outblush (v. t.) To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color.
Outboard (a. & adv.) Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; in a direction from the hull or from the keel; -- opposed to inboard; as, outboard rigging; swing the davits outboard.
Outborn (a.) Foreign; not native.
Outbound (a.) Outward bound.
Outbounds (n. pl.) The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries.
Outbow (v. t.) To excel in bowing.
Outbowed (a.) Convex; curved outward.
Outbrag (v. t.) To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior.
Outbrave (v. t.) To excel in bravery o/ in insolence; to defy with superior courage or audacity
Outbrave (v. t.) To excel in magnificence or comeliness.
Outbray (v. t.) To emit with great noise.
Outbray (v. t.) To exceed in braying.
Outbrazen (v. t.) To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence.
Outbreak (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Outbreaking (n.) That which bursts forth.
Outbreaking (n.) The act of breaking out.
Outbreast (v. t.) To surpass in singing. See Breast, n., 6.
Outbreathe (v. i.) To issue, as breath; to be breathed out; to exhale.
Outbreathe (v. t.) To breathe forth.
Outbreathe (v. t.) To cause to be out of breath; to exhaust.
Outbribe (v. t.) To surpass in bribing.
Outbring (v. t.) To bring or bear out.
Outbud (v. i.) To sprout.
Outbuild (v. t.) To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
Outbuilded () of Outbuild
Outbuilding (n.) A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house; an outhouse.
Outbuilding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outbuild
Outbuilt (imp. & p. p.) of Outbuild
Outburn (v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be consumed.
Outburn (v. t. & i.) To exceed in burning.
Outburst (n.) A bursting forth.
Outcant (v. t.) To surpass in canting.
Outcast (a.) Cast out; degraded.
Outcast (n.) A quarrel; a contention.
Outcast (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
Outcasting (n.) That which is cast out.
Outcept (prep.) Except.
Outcheat (v. t.) To exceed in cheating.
Outclimb (v. t.) To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing.
Outcome (n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.
Outcompass (v. t.) To exceed the compass or limits of.
Outcourt (n.) An outer or exterior court.
Outcrafty (v. t.) To exceed in cunning.
Outcrier (n.) One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.
Outcrop (n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
Outcrop (n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
Outcrop (v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.
Outcry (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.
Outcry (n.) Sale at public auction.
Outdare (v. t.) To surpass in daring; to overcome by courage; to brave.
Outdated (a.) Being out of date; antiquated.
Outdazzle (v. t.) To surpass in dazzing.
Outdid (imp.) of Outdo
Outdo (v. t.) To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
Outdoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outdo
Outdone (p. p.) of Outdo
Outdoor (a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.
Outdoors (adv.) Abread; out of the house; out of doors.
Outdraw (v. t.) To draw out; to extract.
Outdream (v. t.) To pass, or escape, while dreaming.
Outdrink (v. t.) To exceed in drinking.
Outdure (v. t.) To outlast.
Outdwell (v. t.) To dwell or stay beyond.
Outdweller (n.) One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere.
Outer (n.) A shot which strikes the outer of a target.
Outer (n.) The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.
Outer (v.) One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession.
Outerly (adv.) Toward the outside.
Outerly (adv.) Utterly; entirely.
Outermost (a.) Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row.
Outface (v. t.) To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave.
Outfaced (imp. & p. p.) of Outface
Outfacing (p pr. & vb. n.) of Outface
Outfall (n.) A quarrel; a falling out.
Outfall (n.) The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.
Outfangthef (v. t.) A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty.
Outfangthef (v. t.) The privilege of trying such a thief.
Outfawn (v. t.) To exceed in fawning.
Outfeast (v. t.) To exceed in feasting.
Outfeat (v. t.) To surpass in feats.
Outfield (n.) A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively.
Outfield (n.) Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1.
Outfield (n.) The part of the field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders.
Outfield (n.) The part of the field farthest from the batsman.
Outfitter (n.) One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
Outflank (v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
Outflatter (v. t.) To exceed in flattering.
Outflew (imp.) of Outfly
Outfling (n.) A gibe; a contemptuous remark.
Outflow (n.) A flowing out; efflux.
Outflow (v. i.) To flow out.
Outflown (p. p.) of Outfly
Outfly (v. t.) To surpass in flying; to fly beyond or faster than.
Outflying () of Outfly
Outfool (v. t.) To exceed in folly.
Outform (n.) External appearance.
Outfrown (v. t.) To frown down; to overbear by frowning.
Outgate (n.) An outlet.
Outgaze (v. t.) To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.
Outgeneral (v. t.) To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver.
Outgeneraled (imp. & p. p.) of Outgeneral
Outgeneraling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outgeneral
Outgeneralled () of Outgeneral
Outgeneralling () of Outgeneral
Outgive (v. t.) To surpass in giving.
Outgo (n.) That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of income.
Outgo (v. t.) To circumvent; to overreach.
Outgo (v. t.) To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
Outgoer (n.) One who goes out or departs.
Outgoes (pl. ) of Outgo
Outgoing (a.) Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.
Outgoing (n.) That which goes out; outgo; outlay.
Outgoing (n.) The act or the state of going out.
Outgoing (n.) The extreme limit; the place of ending.
Outgoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outgo
Outgone (p. p.) of Outgo
Outgrew (imp.) of Outgrow
Outground (n.) Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land.
Outgrow (v. t.) To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.
Outgrow (v. t.) To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
Outgrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outgrow
Outgrown (p. p.) of Outgrow
Outgrowth (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
Outguard (n.) A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defended.
Outgush (n.) A pouring out; an outburst.
Outgush (v. i.) To gush out; to flow forth.
Outhaul (n.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.
Outher (conj.) Other.
Outhess (n.) Outcry; alarm.
Outhire (v. t.) To hire out.
Outhouse (n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.
Outing (n.) A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.
Outing (n.) The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
Outjest (v. t.) To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting.
Outjet (n.) That which jets out or projects from anything.
Outjuggle (v. t.) To surpass in juggling.
Outkeeper (n.) An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
Outknave (v. t.) To surpass in knavery.
Outlabor (v. t.) To surpass in laboring.
Outland (a.) Foreign; outlandish.
Outlander (n.) A foreigner.
Outlandish (a.) Foreign; not native.
Outlandish (a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.
Outlast (v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.
Outlaugh (v. t.) To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.
Outlaugh (v. t.) To surpass or outdo in laughing.
Outlaw (n.) A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
Outlaw (v. t.) To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe.
Outlaw (v. t.) To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement; as, to outlaw a debt or claim; to deprive of legal force.
Outlawed (imp. & p. p.) of Outlaw
Outlawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outlaw
Outlawries (pl. ) of Outlawry
Outlawry (n.) The act of outlawing; the putting a man out of the protection of law, or the process by which a man (as an absconding criminal) is deprived of that protection.
Outlawry (n.) The state of being an outlaw.
Outlay (n.) A laying out or expending.
Outlay (n.) An outlying haunt.
Outlay (n.) That which is expended; expenditure.
Outlay (v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.
Outleap (n.) A sally.
Outleap (v. t.) To surpass in leaping.
Outlearn (v. t.) To excel or surpass in learing.
Outlearn (v. t.) To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of.
Outlet (n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.
Outlet (v. t.) To let out; to emit.
Outlie (v. t.) To exceed in lying.
Outlier (n.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
Outlier (n.) One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
Outlier (n.) That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
Outlimb (n.) An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb.
Outline (n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.
Outline (n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.
Outline (n.) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.
Outline (n.) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
Outline (v. t.) Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.
Outline (v. t.) To draw the outline of.
Outlinear (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline.
Outlined (imp. & p. p.) of Outline
Outlining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outline
Outlive (v. t.) To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.
Outlived (imp. & p. p.) of Outlive
Outliver (n.) One who outlives.
Outliving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outlive
Outlook (n.) One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower.
Outlook (n.) The act of looking out; watch.
Outlook (n.) The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance.
Outlook (v. t.) To face down; to outstare.
Outlook (v. t.) To inspect throughly; to select.
Outloose (n.) A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion.
Outlope (n.) An excursion.
Outluster (v. t.) Alt. of Outlustre
Outlustre (v. t.) To excel in brightness or luster.
Outlying (a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
Outmaneuver (v. t.) Alt. of Outmanoeuvre
Outmanoeuvre (v. t.) To surpass, or get an advantage of, in maneuvering; to outgeneral.
Outmantle (v. t.) To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress.
Outmarch (v. t.) To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.
Outmeasure (v. t.) To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than.
Outmost (a.) Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.
Outmount (v. t.) To mount above.
Outname (v. t.) To exceed in name, fame, or degree.
Outname (v. t.) To exceed in naming or describing.
Outness (n.) The state of being out or beyond; separateness.
Outness (n.) The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity.
Outnoise (v. t.) To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness.
Outnumber (v. t.) To exceed in number.
Outpace (v. t.) To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.
Outparamour (v. t.) To exceed in the number of mistresses.
Outparish (n.) A parish lying without the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town.
Outpart (n.) An outlying part.
Outpass (v. t.) To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.
Outpassion (v. t.) To exceed in passion.
Outpeer (v. t.) To excel.
Outplay (v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.
Outpoise (v. t.) To outweigh.
Outport (n.) A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.
Outpost (n.) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.
Outpost (n.) The troops placed at such a station.
Outpour (n.) A flowing out; a free discharge.
Outpour (v. t.) To pour out.
Outpower (v. t.) To excel in power; to overpover.
Outpray (v. t.) To exceed or excel in prayer.
Outpreach (v. t.) To surpass in preaching.
Outprize (v. t.) To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value.
Output (n.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the faeces. See Income.
Output (n.) The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.
Outquench (v. t.) To quench entirely; to extinguish.
Outrage (n.) Excess; luxury.
Outrage (n.) Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury.
Outrage (n.) Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).
Outrage (n.) To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.
Outrage (v. t.) To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.
Outrage (v. t.) To rage in excess of.
Outragen (imp. & p. p.) of Outrage
Outrageous (n.) Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.
Outraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outrage
Outran (imp.) of Outrun
Outrance (n.) The utmost or last extremity.
Outrank (v. t.) To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.
Outray (v. i.) To spread out in array.
Outray (v. t.) To outshine.
Outraye (v. i.) See Outrage, v. i.
Outraze (v. t.) To obliterate.
Outre (a.) Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.
Outreach (v. t.) To reach beyond.
Outreason (v. t.) To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
Outreckon (v. t.) To exceed in reckoning or computation.
Outrecuidance (n.) Excessive presumption.
Outrede (v. t.) To surpass in giving rede, or counsel.
Outreign (v. t.) To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than.
Outride (n.) A place for riding out.
Outride (n.) A riding out; an excursion.
Outride (v. t.) To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than.
Outrider (n.) A servant on horseback attending a carriage.
Outrider (n.) A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
Outrider (n.) One who rides out on horseback.
Outrigger (n.) A boat thus equipped.
Outrigger (n.) A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.
Outrigger (n.) A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat.
Outrigger (n.) Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.
Outright (adv.) Completely; utterly.
Outright (adv.) Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.
Outring (v. t.) To excel in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.
Outrival (v. t.) To surpass in a rivalry.
Outrive (v. t.) To river; to sever.
Outroad (n.) Alt. of Outrode
Outroar (v. t.) To exceed in roaring.
Outrode (n.) An excursion.
Outromance (v. t.) To exceed in romantic character.
Outroom (n.) An outer room.
Outroot (v. t.) To eradicate; to extirpate.
Outrun (p. p.) of Outrun
Outrun (v. t.) To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.
Outrunner (n.) An offshoot; a branch.
Outrunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outrun
Outrush (v. i.) To rush out; to issue, or ru/ out, forcibly.
Outsail (v. t.) To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than.
Outscent (v. t.) To exceed in odor.
Outscold (v. t.) To exceed in scolding.
Outscorn (v. t.) To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn.
Outscouring (n.) That which is scoured out o/ washed out.
Outscout (v. t.) To overpower by disdain; to outface.
Outsee (v. t.) To see beyond; to excel in cer/ainty of seeing; to surpass in foresight.
Outsell (v. t.) To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.
Outsell (v. t.) To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.
Outsentry (n.) A sentry who guards the entrance or approach to a place; an outguard.
Outset (n.) A setting out, starting, or beginning.
Outsettler (n.) One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.
Outshine (v. i.) To shine forth.
Outshine (v. t.) To excel in splendor.
Outshoot (v. t.) To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond.
Outshut (v. t.) To shut out.
Outside (a.) Of or pertaining to the outside; external; exterior; superficial.
Outside (a.) Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.; as, an outside estimate.
Outside (adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside.
Outside (n.) One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3.
Outside (n.) The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior.
Outside (n.) The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.; the utmost; as, it may last a week at the outside.
Outside (n.) The part or space which lies without an inclosure; the outer side, as of a door, walk, or boundary.
Outsider (n.) A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.
Outsider (n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.
Outsider (n.) One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
Outsing (v. t.) To surpass in singing.
Outsit (v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.
Outskirt (n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.
Outsleep (v. t.) To exceed in sleeping.
Outslide (v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.
Outsoar (v. t.) To soar beyond or above.
Outsole (n.) The outside sole of a boot or shoe.
Outsound (v. t.) To surpass in sounding.
Outspan (v. t. & i.) To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon.
Outsparkle (v. t.) To exceed in sparkling.
Outspeak (v. t.) To exceed in speaking.
Outspeak (v. t.) To express more than.
Outspeak (v. t.) To speak openly or boldly.
Outspeed (v. t.) To excel in speed.
Outspend (n.) Outlay; expenditure.
Outspin (v. t.) To spin out; to finish.
Outspoken (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke.
Outsport (v. t.) To exceed in sporting.
Outspread (v. t.) To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. / adj.
Outspring (v. i.) To spring out; to issue.
Outstand (v. i.) To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.
Outstand (v. t.) To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding.
Outstand (v. t.) To stay beyond.
Outstanding (a.) That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations.
Outstare (v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring; to face down.
Outstart (v. i.) To start out or up.
Outstay (v. t.) To stay beyond or longer than.
Outstep (v. t.) To exceed in stepping.
Outstorm (v. t.) To exceed in storming.
Outstreet (n.) A street remote from the center of a town.
Outstretch (v. t.) To stretch out.
Outstride (v. t.) To surpass in striding.
Outstrike (v. t.) To strike out; to strike faster than.
Outstrip (v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.
Outstripped (imp. & p. p.) of Outstrip
Outstripping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Outstrip
Outsuffer (v. t.) To exceed in suffering.
Outswear (v. t.) To exceed in swearing.
Outsweeten (v. t.) To surpass in sweetness.
Outswell (v. t.) To exceed in swelling.
Outswell (v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.
Outtake (prep.) Except.
Outtaken (p. p.) or prep. Excepted; save.
Outtalk (v. t.) To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down.
Outtell (v. t.) To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning.
Outterm (n.) An external or superficial thing; outward manner; superficial remark, etc.
Outthrow (v. t.) To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
Outthrow (v. t.) To throw out.
Outtoil (v. t.) To exceed in toiling.
Outtongue (v. t.) To silence by talk, clamor, or noise.
Outtop (v. t.) To overtop.
Outtravel (v. t.) To exceed in speed o/ distance traveled.
Outtwine (v. t.) To disentangle.
Outvalue (v. t.) To exceed in value.
Outvenom (v. t.) To exceed in venom.
Outvie (v. t.) To exceed in vying.
Outvillain (v. t.) To exceed in villainy.
Outvoice (v. t.) To exceed in noise.
Outvote (v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.
Outwalk (v. t.) To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking.
Outwall (n.) The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance.
Outward (a.) Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war.
Outward (a.) Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer.
Outward (a.) Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public.
Outward (a.) Tending to the exterior or outside.
Outward (adv.) Alt. of Outwards
Outward (n.) External form; exterior.
Outwards (adv.) From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward.
Outwards (adv.) See Outward, adv.
Outwatch (v. t.) To exceed in watching.
Outway (n.) A way out; exit.
Outwear (v. t.) To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other.
Outwear (v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Outweary (v. t.) To weary out.
Outweed (v. t.) To weed out.
Outweep (v. t.) To exceed in weeping.
Outweigh (v. t.) To exceed in weight or value.
Outwell (v. i.) To issue forth.
Outwell (v. t.) To pour out.
Outwent () imp. of Outgo.
Outwent (imp.) of Outgo
Outwhore (v. t.) To exceed in lewdness.
Outwin (v. t.) To win a way out of.
Outwind (v. t.) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
Outwing (v. t.) To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying.
Outwit (n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
Outwit (v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
Outwoe (v. t.) To exceed in woe.
Outwork (n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.
Outwork (v. t.) To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.
Outworth (v. t.) To exceed in worth.
Outwrest (v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.
Outwrite (v. t.) To exceed or excel in writing.
Outzany (v. t.) To exceed in buffoonery.
Ouvarovite (n.) Chrome garnet.
Ouze (n. & v.) See Ooze.
Ouzel (n.) Same as Ousel.
Ova (n. pl.) See Ovum.
Ova (pl. ) of Ovum
Oval (a.) Broadly elliptical.
Oval (a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
Oval (a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
Oval (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Ovalbumen (n.) The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.
Ovalbumin (n.) Alt. of Ovalbumen
Ovaliform (a.) Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
Ovally (adv.) In an oval form.
Ovant (a.) Exultant.
Ovaria (pl. ) of Ovarium
Ovarial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ovary.
Ovarian (a.) Alt. of Ovarial
Ovaries (pl. ) of Ovary
Ovariole (n.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.
Ovariotomist (n.) One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.
Ovariotomy (n.) The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oophorectomy.
Ovarious (a.) Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.
Ovaritis (n.) Inflammation of the ovaries.
Ovarium (n.) An ovary. See Ovary.
Ovariums (pl. ) of Ovarium
Ovary (n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
Ovary (n.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.
Ovate (a.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal.
Ovate (a.) Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
Ovate-acuminate (a.) Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
Ovate-cylindraceous (a.) Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.
Ovate-lanceolate (a.) Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.
Ovate-oblong (a.) Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
Ovate-rotundate (a.) Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.
Ovate-subulate (a.) Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.
Ovated (a.) Ovate.
Ovation (n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.
Ovation (n.) Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite.
Ovato-acuminate (a.) Same as Ovate-acuminate.
Ovato-cylindraceous (a.) Same as Ovate-cylindraceous.
Ovato-oblong (a.) Same as Ovate-oblong.
Ovato-rotundate (a.) Same as Ovate-rotundate.
Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting.
Ovenbird (n.) Any species of the genus Furnarius, allied to the creepers. They inhabit South America and the West Indies, and construct curious oven-shaped nests.
Ovenbird (n.) In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse.
Ovenbird (n.) In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush.
Over (a.) Upper; covering; higher; superior; also, excessive; too much or too great; -- chiefly used in composition; as, overshoes, overcoat, over-garment, overlord, overwork, overhaste.
Over (adv.) Also, with verbs of being: At, or on, the opposite side; as, the boat is over.
Over (adv.) At an end; beyond the limit of continuance; completed; finished.
Over (adv.) Beyond a limit; hence, in excessive degree or quantity; superfluously; with repetition; as, to do the whole work over.
Over (adv.) From beginning to end; throughout the course, extent, or expanse of anything; as, to look over accounts, or a stock of goods; a dress covered over with jewels.
Over (adv.) From inside to outside, above or across the brim.
Over (adv.) From one person or place to another regarded as on the opposite side of a space or barrier; -- used with verbs of motion; as, to sail over to England; to hand over the money; to go over to the enemy.
Over (adv.) From one side to another; from side to side; across; crosswise; as, a board, or a tree, a foot over, i. e., a foot in diameter.
Over (adv.) In a manner to bring the under side to or towards the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart.
Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places.
Over (prep.) Above in authority or station; -- implying government, direction, care, attention, guard, responsibility, etc.; -- opposed to under.
Over (prep.) Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his head, over his shoes.
Over (prep.) Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding; as, he triumphed over difficulties; the bill was passed over the veto.
Over (prep.) Above, or higher than, in place or position, with the idea of covering; -- opposed to under; as, clouds are over our heads; the smoke rises over the city.
Over (prep.) Above; -- implying superiority in excellence, dignity, condition, or value; as, the advantages which the Christian world has over the heathen.
Over (prep.) Across or during the time of; from beginning to end of; as, to keep anything over night; to keep corn over winter.
Over (prep.) Across; from side to side of; -- implying a passing or moving, either above the substance or thing, or on the surface of it; as, a dog leaps over a stream or a table.
Over (prep.) Beyond; in excess of; in addition to; more than; as, it cost over five dollars.
Over (prep.) Upon the surface of, or the whole surface of; hither and thither upon; throughout the whole extent of; as, to wander over the earth; to walk over a field, or over a city.
Over-arm (a.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.
Over-busy (a.) Too busy; officious.
Over-garment (n.) An outer garment.
Over-story (n.) The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.
Overabound (v. i.) To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant.
Overact (v. i.) To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.
Overact (v. t.) To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
Overact (v. t.) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
Overaction (n.) Per/ormance to excess; exaggerated or excessive action.
Overaffect (v. t.) To affect or care for unduly.
Overagitate (v. t.) To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient.
Overall (adv.) Everywhere.
Overalls (n. pl.) A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.
Overalls (n. pl.) Waterproof leggings.
Overanxiety (n.) The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.
Overanxious (a.) Anxious in an excessive or needless degree.
Overarch (v. t. & i.) To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.
Overawe (v. t.) To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.
Overawed (imp. & p. p.) of Overawe
Overawful (a.) Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree.
Overawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overawe
Overbalance (n.) Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent; as, an overbalance of exports.
Overbalance (v. t.) To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.
Overbalance (v. t.) To exceed equality with; to outweigh.
Overbarren (a.) Excessively barren.
Overbattle (a.) Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths.
Overbear (v. i.) To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.
Overbear (v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.
Overbear (v. t.) To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.
Overbid (v. t.) To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.
Overbide (v. t.) To outlive.
Overblow (v. i.) To blow over, or be subdued.
Overblow (v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.
Overblow (v. t.) To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.
Overboard (adv.) Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard.
Overboil (v. i.) To boil over or unduly.
Overbold (a.) Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent.
Overbookish (a.) Excessively bookish.
Overbounteous (a.) Bounteous to excess.
Overbow (v. t.) To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction.
Overbreed (v. t.) To breed to excess.
Overbrim (v. i.) To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.
Overbrow (v. t.) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
Overbuild (v. t.) To build over.
Overbuild (v. t.) To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
Overbuilt (a.) Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.
Overburden (n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Overburden (v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.
Overburdensome (a.) Too burdensome.
Overburn (v. t. & i.) To burn too much; to be overzealous.
Overbuy (v. t.) To buy at too dear a rate.
Overbuy (v. t.) To buy too much.
Overcame (imp.) of Overcome
Overcanopy (v. t.) To cover as with a canopy.
Overcapable (a.) Too capable.
Overcare (n.) Excessive care.
Overcareful (a.) Too careful.
Overcarking (a.) Too anxious; too full of care.
Overcarry (v. t. & i.) To carry too far; to carry beyond the proper point.
Overcast (v. t.) To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.
Overcast (v. t.) To compute or rate too high.
Overcast (v. t.) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.
Overcatch (v. t.) To overtake.
Overcautious (a.) Too cautious; cautious or prudent to excess.
Overchange (n.) Too much or too frequent change; fickleness.
Overcharge (n.) An excessive charge in an account.
Overcharge (n.) An excessive load or burden.
Overcharge (v. i.) To make excessive charges.
Overcharge (v. t.) To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price.
Overcharge (v. t.) To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.
Overcharge (v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description.
Overcharge (v. t.) To fill too full; to crowd.
Overclimb (v. t.) To climb over.
Overcloud (v. t.) To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.
Overcloy (v. t.) To fill beyond satiety.
Overcoat (n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.
Overcold (a.) Cold to excess.
Overcolor (v. t.) To color too highly.
Overcome (p. p.) of Overcome
Overcome (v. i.) To gain the superiority; to be victorious.
Overcome (v. t.) To come or pass over; to spreads over.
Overcome (v. t.) To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.
Overcome (v. t.) To overflow; to surcharge.
Overcomer (n.) One who overcomes.
Overcoming (a.) Conquering; subduing.
Overcoming (p. pr & vb. n.) of Overcome
Overconfidence (n.) Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.
Overconfident (a.) Confident to excess.
Overcostly (a.) Too costly.
Overcount (v. t.) To rate too high; to outnumber.
Overcover (v. t.) To cover up.
Overcredulous (a.) Too credulous.
Overcrow (v. t.) To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower.
Overcrowd (v. t.) To crowd too much.
Overcunning (a.) Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
Overcurious (a.) Too curious.
Overdare (v. t. & i.) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
Overdate (v. t.) To date later than the true or proper period.
Overdeal (n.) The excess.
Overdelicate (a.) Too delicate.
Overdelighted (a.) Delighted beyond measure.
Overdid (imp.) of Overdo
Overdight (a.) Covered over.
Overdo (v. i.) To labor too hard; to do too much.
Overdo (v. t.) To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.
Overdo (v. t.) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
Overdo (v. t.) To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.
Overdo (v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
Overdoer (n.) One who overdoes.
Overdoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overdo
Overdone (p. p.) of Overdo
Overdose (n.) Too great a dose; an excessive dose.
Overdose (v. t.) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.
Overdraw (v. t.) To exaggerate; to overdo.
Overdraw (v. t.) To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.
Overdrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overdraw
Overdrawn (p. p.) of Overdraw
Overdress (v. t.) To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much.
Overdrew (imp.) of Overdraw
Overdrink (v. t. & i.) To drink to excess.
Overdrown (v. t.) To wet or drench to excess.
Overdry (v. t.) To dry too much.
Overdtive (v. t. & i.) To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
Overdue (a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.
Overdye (v. t.) To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another).
Overeager (a.) Too eager; too impatient.
Overearnest (a.) Too earnest.
Overeat (v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.
Overeat (v. t. & i.) To gnaw all over, or on all sides.
Overelegant (a.) Too elegant.
Overempty (v. t.) To make too empty; to exhaust.
Overest (Superl.) Uppermost; outermost.
Overestimate (n.) An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote.
Overestimate (v. t.) To estimate too highly; to overvalue.
Overexcite (v. t.) To excite too much.
Overexcitement (n.) Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
Overexert (v. t.) To exert too much.
Overexertion (n.) Excessive exertion.
Overexquisite (a.) Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.
Overeye (v. t.) To see; to observe.
Overeye (v. t.) To superintend; to oversee; to inspect.
Overfall (n.) A cataract; a waterfall.
Overfall (n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.
Overfatigue (n.) Excessive fatigue.
Overfatigue (v. t.) To fatigue to excess; to tire out.
Overfed (imp. & p. p.) of Overfeed
Overfeed (v. t. & i.) To feed to excess; to surfeit.
Overfeeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfeed
Overfierce (a.) Excessively fierce.
overfill (v. t.) To fill to excess; to surcharge.
Overfish (v. t.) To fish to excess.
Overflew (imp.) of Overfly
Overfloat (v. t.) To overflow.
Overflourish (v. t.) To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.
Overflourish (v. t.) To make excessive display or flourish of.
Overflow (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
Overflow (n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
Overflow (n.) That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.
Overflow (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.
Overflow (v. i.) To run over the bounds.
Overflow (v. t.) To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
Overflow (v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Overflowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overflow
Overflowing (n.) An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness.
Overflowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overflow
Overflowingly (adv.) In great abundance; exuberantly.
Overflown (p. p.) of Overfly
Overflush (v. t.) To flush to excess.
Overflutter (v. t.) To flutter over.
Overflux (n.) Overflow; exuberance.
Overfly (v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.
Overflying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfly
Overfond (a.) Fond to excess.
Overforce (n.) Excessive force; violence.
Overforward (a.) Forward to excess; too forward.
Overfraught () of Overfreight
Overfree (a.) Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar.
Overfreight (v. t.) To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
Overfreighted (imp. & p. p.) of Overfreight
Overfreighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overfreight
Overfrequent (a.) Too frequent.
Overfrieze (v. t.) To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze.
Overfront (v. t.) To confront; to oppose; to withstand.
Overfruitful (a.) Too fruitful.
Overfull (a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.
Overfullness (n.) The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit.
Overgarrison (v. t.) To garrison to excess.
Overgaze (v. t.) To gaze; to overlook.
Overget (v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.
Overget (v. t.) To reach; to overtake; to pass.
Overgild (v. t.) To gild over; to varnish.
Overgird (v. t.) To gird too closely.
Overgive (v. t.) To give over; to surrender; to yield.
Overglad (a.) Excessively or unduly glad.
Overglance (v. t.) To glance over.
Overglide (v. t.) To glide over.
Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.
Overgo (v. t.) To cover.
Overgo (v. t.) To exceed; to surpass.
Overgo (v. t.) To oppress; to weigh down.
Overgo (v. t.) To travel over.
Overgoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overgo
Overgone (p. p.) of Overgo
Overgorge (v. t.) To gorge to excess.
Overgrace (v. t.) To grace or honor exceedingly or beyond desert.
Overgrassed (a.) Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass.
Overgreat (a.) Too great.
Overgreatness (n.) Excessive greatness.
Overgreedy (a.) Excessively greedy.
Overgrew (imp.) of Overgrow
Overgross (a.) Too gross.
Overground (a.) Situated over or above ground; as, the overground portion of a plant.
Overgrow (v. i.) To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge, overgrown ox.
Overgrow (v. t.) To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.
Overgrow (v. t.) To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.
Overgrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overgrow
Overgrown (p. p.) of Overgrow
Overgrowth (n.) Excessive growth.
Overhale (v. t.) See Overhaul.
Overhall (v. t.) See Overhaul.
Overhand (a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.
Overhand (a.) Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.
Overhand (adv.) In an overhand manner or style.
Overhand (n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.
Overhandle (v. t.) To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often.
Overhang (n.) In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.
Overhang (n.) Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.
Overhang (n.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
Overhang (n.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.
Overhang (v. i.) To jut over.
Overhang (v. t.) To hang over; to jut or project over.
Overhang (v. t.) To impend or hang over.
Overhanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhang
Overhappy (a.) Exceedingly happy.
Overharden (v. t.) To harden too much; to make too hard.
Overhardy (a.) Too hardy; overbold.
Overhaste (n.) Too great haste.
Overhasty (a.) Too hasty; precipitate; rash.
Overhaul (n.) Alt. of Overhauling
Overhaul (v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.
Overhaul (v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.
Overhauled (imp. & p. p.) of Overhaul
Overhauling () of Overhaul
Overhauling (n.) A strict examination with a view to correction or repairs.
Overhead (adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
Overhear (v. t.) To hear again.
Overhear (v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
Overheard (imp. & p. p.) of Overhear
Overhearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhear
Overheat (v. t.) To heat to excess; to superheat.
Overheavy (a.) Excessively heavy.
Overhele (v. t.) To hele or cover over.
Overhent (v. t.) To overtake.
Overhigh (a.) Too high.
Overhighly (adv.) Too highly; too greatly.
Overhip (v. t.) To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass.
Overhipped (imp. & p. p.) of Overhip
Overhipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overhip
Overhold (v. t.) To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.
Overhung (a.) Covered over; ornamented with hangings.
Overhung (a.) Suspended from above or from the top.
Overhung (imp. & p. p.) of Overhang
Overinfluence (v. t.) To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.
Overinform (v. t.) To inform, fill, or animate, excessively.
Overissue (n.) An excessive issue; an issue, as of notes or bonds, exceeding the limit of capital, credit, or authority.
Overissue (v. t.) To issue in excess.
Overjealous (a.) Excessively jealous; too jealous.
Overjoy (n.) Excessive joy; transport.
Overjoy (v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.
Overjump (v. t.) To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.
Overking (n.) A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes.
Overknowing (a.) Too knowing or too cunning.
Overlabor (v. t.) To cause to labor excessively; to overwork.
Overlabor (v. t.) To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
Overlabored (imp. & p. p.) of Overlabor
Overlaboring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlabor
Overlade (v. t.) To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload.
Overladed (imp.) of Overlade
Overladen (p. p.) of Overlade
Overlading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlade
Overlaid (imp. & p. p.) of Overlay
Overlain (p. p.) of Overlie
Overland (a.) Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey.
Overland (adv.) By, upon, or across, land.
Overlander (n.) One who travels over lands or countries; one who travels overland.
Overlanguaged (a.) Employing too many words; diffuse.
Overlap (n.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.
Overlap (n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.
Overlap (v. t. & i.) To lap over; to lap.
Overlarge (a.) Too large; too great.
Overlargeness (n.) Excess of size or bulk.
Overlash (v. i.) To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast.
Overlashing (n.) Excess; exaggeration.
Overlate (a.) Too late; exceedingly late.
Overlave (v. t.) To lave or bathe over.
Overlavish (a.) Lavish to excess.
Overlay (imp.) of Overlie
Overlay (n.) A covering.
Overlay (n.) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
Overlay (v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
Overlay (v. t.) To put an overlay on.
Overlay (v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.
Overlayer (n.) One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.
Overlaying (n.) A superficial covering; a coating.
Overlaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlay
Overlead (v. t.) To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.
Overleap (v. t.) To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.
Overlearned (a.) Too learned.
Overleather (n.) Upper leather.
Overleaven (v. t.) To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil.
Overliberal (a.) Too liberal.
Overliberally (adv.) In an overliberal manner.
Overlick (v. t.) To lick over.
Overlie (v. t.) To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.
Overlight (a.) Too light or frivolous; giddy.
Overlight (n.) Too strong a light.
Overliness (n.) The quality or state of being overly; carelessness.
Overlinger (v. t.) To cause to linger; to detain too long.
Overlip (n.) The upper lip.
Overlive (v. i.) To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively.
Overlive (v. t.) To outlive.
Overliver (n.) A survivor.
Overload (n.) An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
Overload (v. t.) To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
Overloaded (imp. & p. p.) of Overload
Overloading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overload
Overlogical (a.) Excessively logical; adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic.
Overlong (a. & adv.) Too long.
Overlook (v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
Overlook (v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
Overlook (v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
Overlook (v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.
Overlook (v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
Overlooked (imp. & p. p.) of Overlook
Overlooker (n.) One who overlooks.
Overlooking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlook
Overloop (n.) See Orlop.
Overlord (n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.
Overlordship (n.) Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others.
Overloud (a.) Too loud; noisy.
Overlove (v. t.) To love to excess.
Overluscious (a.) Excessively luscious.
Overlusty (a.) Too lusty, or lively.
Overly (a.) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.
Overly (a.) Excessive; too much.
Overly (adv.) In an overly manner.
Overlying (a.) Lying over or upon something; as, overlying rocks.
Overlying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overlie
Overmagnify (v. t.) To magnify too much.
Overmalapert (a.) Excessively malapert or impudent.
Overmanner (adv.) In an excessive manner; excessively.
Overmarch (v. t. & i.) To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching.
Overmast (v. t.) To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.
Overmaster (v. t.) To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
Overmatch (n.) One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest in which one of the opponents is overmatched.
Overmatch (v. t.) To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.
Overmatch (v. t.) To marry (one) to a superior.
Overmeasure (n.) Excessive measure; the excess beyond true or proper measure; surplus.
Overmeasure (v. t.) To measure or estimate too largely.
Overmeddle (v. t.) To meddle unduly.
Overmeddling (n.) Excessive interference.
Overmellow (a.) Too mellow; overripe.
Overmerit (n.) Excessive merit.
Overmickle (a. & adv.) Overmuch.
Overmix (v. t.) To mix with too much.
Overmodest (a.) Modest to excess; bashful.
Overmoist (a.) Excessively moist.
Overmoisture (n.) Excess of moisture.
Overmore (adv.) Beyond; moreover.
Overmorrow (n.) The day after or following to-morrow.
Overmost (a.) Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest.
Overmount (v. t.) To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.
Overmuch (a.) Too much.
Overmuch (adv.) In too great a degree; too much.
Overmuch (n.) An excess; a surplus.
Overmuchness (n.) The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance.
Overmultiply (v. t. & i.) To multiply or increase too much; to repeat too often.
Overmultitude (v. t.) To outnumber.
Overname (v. t.) To name over or in a series; to recount.
Overneat (a.) Excessively neat.
Overnice (a.) Excessively nice; fastidious.
Overnight (adv.) In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before; also, during the night; as, the candle will not last overnight.
Overnight (n.) The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening.
Overnoise (v. t.) To overpower by noise.
Overnumerous (a.) Excessively numerous; too many.
Overoffice (v. t.) To domineer over by virtue of office.
Overofficious (a.) Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious.
Overpaid (imp. & p. p.) of Overpay
Overpaint (v. t.) To color or describe too strongly.
Overpamper (v. t.) To pamper excessively; to feed or dress too much.
Overpart (v. t.) To give too important or difficult a part to.
Overpass (v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.
Overpass (v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.
Overpass (v. t.) To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.
Overpass (v. t.) To surpass; to excel.
Overpassed (imp. & p. p.) of Overpass
Overpassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overpass
Overpassionate (a.) Passionate to excess.
Overpatient (a.) Patient to excess.
Overpay (v. t.) To pay too much to; to reward too highly.
Overpaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overpay
Overpeer (v. t.) To peer over; to rise above.
Overpeople (v. t.) To people too densely.
Overperch (v. t.) To perch upon; to fly over.
Overpersuade (v. t.) To persuade or influence against one's inclination or judgment.
Overpester (v. t.) To pester exceedingly or excessively.
Overpicture (v. t.) To surpass nature in the picture or representation of.
Overplease (v. t.) To please excessively.
Overplus (n.) That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus.
Overply (v. t.) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork.
Overpoise (n.) Preponderant weight; a counterbalance.
Overpoise (v. t.) To outweigh; to overbalance.
Overpolish (v. t.) To polish too much.
Overponderous (a.) Too heavy.
Overpost (v. t.) To post over; to pass over swiftly, as by post.
Overpotent (a.) Too potent or powerful.
Overpower (n.) A dominating power.
Overpower (v. t.) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.
Overpowered (imp. & p. p.) of Overpower
Overpowering (a.) Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.
Overpowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overpower
Overpraise (v. t.) To praise excessively or unduly.
Overpraising (n.) The act of praising unduly; excessive praise.
Overpress (v. t.) To bear upon with irresistible force; to crush; to overwhelm.
Overpress (v. t.) To overcome by importunity.
Overpressure (n.) Excessive pressure or urging.
Overprize (v. t.) Toprize excessively; to overvalue.
Overproduction (n.) Excessive production; supply beyond the demand.
Overprompt (a.) Too prompt; too ready or eager; precipitate.
Overproof (a.) Containing more alcohol than proof spirit; stronger than proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight of alcohol.
Overproportion (v. t.) To make of too great proportion.
Overproud (a.) Exceedingly or unduly proud.
Overprovident (a.) Too provident.
Overprovoke (v. t.) To provoke excessively.
Overquell (v. t.) To quell or subdue completely.
Overquietness (n.) Too much quietness.
Overrake (v. t.) To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.
Overraked (imp. & p. p.) of Overrake
Overraking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overrake
Overran (imp.) of Overrun
Overrank (a.) Too rank or luxuriant.
Overrate (n.) An excessive rate.
Overrate (v. t.) To rate or value too highly.
Overrated (imp. & p. p.) of Overrate
Overrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overrate
Overraught () of Overreach
Overreach (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
Overreach (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.
Overreach (v. i.) To reach too far
Overreach (v. i.) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
Overreach (v. i.) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.
Overreach (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
Overreach (v. t.) To reach above or beyond in any direction.
Overreached (imp. & p. p.) of Overreach
Overreacher (n.) One who overreaches; one who cheats; a cheat.
Overreaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overreach
Overread (v. t.) To read over, or peruse.
Overready (a.) Too ready.
Overreckon (v. t.) To reckon too highly.
Overred (v. t.) To smear with red.
Overrefine (v. t.) To refine too much.
Overrefinement (n.) Excessive refinement.
Overrent (v. t.) To rent for too much.
Overrich (a.) Exccessively rich.
Overrid () of Override
Overridden (p. p.) of Override
Override (v. t.) To ride beyond; to pass; to outride.
Override (v. t.) To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.
Override (v. t.) To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.
Override (v. t.) To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto.
Overriding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Override
Overrigged (a.) Having too much rigging.
Overrighteous (a.) Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
Overrigid (a.) Too rigid; too severe.
Overrigorous (a.) Too rigorous; harsh.
Overripe (a.) Matured to excess.
Overripen (v. t.) To make too ripe.
Overroast (v. t.) To roast too much.
Overrode () of Override
Overrode (imp.) of Override
Overrule (v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules.
Overrule (v. t.) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order.
Overrule (v. t.) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
Overrule (v. t.) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.
Overruled (imp. & p. p.) of Overrule
Overruler (n.) One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines.
Overruling (a.) Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence.
Overruling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overrule
Overrun (p. p.) of Overrun
Overrun (v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
Overrun (v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
Overrun (v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
Overrun (v. t.) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
Overrun (v. t.) To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
Overrun (v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
Overrun (v. t.) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
Overrun (v. t.) To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
Overrunner (n.) One that overruns.
Overrunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overrun
Oversaturate (v. t.) To saturate to excess.
Oversaw (imp.) of Oversee
Oversay (v. t.) To say over; to repeat.
Overscented (a.) Covered or concealed by a different odor.
Overscented (a.) Scented excessively.
Overscrupulosity (n.) Overscrupulousness.
Overscrupulous (a.) Scrupulous to excess.
Overscrupulousness (n.) The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
Oversea (a.) Beyond the sea; foreign.
Oversea (adv.) Alt. of Overseas
Oversearch (v. t.) To search all over.
Overseas (adv.) Over the sea; abroad.
Overseason (v. t.) To season too highly.
Oversee (v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
Oversee (v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.
Oversee (v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
Overseeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversee
Overseen (p. p.) of Oversee
Overseer (n.) One who oversees; a superintendent; a supervisor; as, an overseer of a mill; specifically, one or certain public officers; as, an overseer of the poor; an overseer of highways.
Overseership (n.) The office of an overseer.
Oversell (v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.
Oversell (v. t.) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.
Overselling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversell
Overset (imp. & p. p.) of Overset
Overset (n.) An excess; superfluity.
Overset (n.) An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.
Overset (v. i.) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.
Overset (v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.
Overset (v. t.) To fill too full.
Overset (v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.
Oversetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overset
Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.
Overshadow (v. t.) To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.
Overshadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overshadow
Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything.
Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshadow
Overshadowy (a.) Overshadowing.
Overshake (v. t.) To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.
Overshine (v. t.) To excel in shining; to outshine.
Overshine (v. t.) To shine over or upon; to illumine.
Overshoe (n.) A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.
Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Overshoot (v. t.) To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth.
Overshoot (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
Overshoot (v. t.) To shoot over or beyond.
Overshooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshoot
Overshot (a.) From Overshoot, v. t.
Overshot (imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot
Oversight (n.) An overlooking; an omission; an error.
Oversight (n.) Escape from an overlooked peril.
Oversight (n.) Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
Oversize (v. t.) To cover with viscid matter.
Oversize (v. t.) To surpass in size.
Overskip (v. t.) To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.
Overskirt (n.) An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.
Overslaugh (n.) A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River.
Overslaugh (v. t.) To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment.
Oversleep (v. i.) To sleep too long.
Oversleep (v. t.) To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.
Overslide (v. t.) To slide over or by.
Overslip (v. t.) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.
Overslop (n.) An outer garment, or slop.
Overslow (a.) Too slow.
Overslow (v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.
Oversman (n.) An overseer; a superintendent.
Oversman (n.) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.
Oversmen (pl. ) of Oversman
Oversnow (v. t.) To cover with snow, or as with snow.
Oversold (imp. & p. p.) of Oversell
Oversoon (adv.) Too soon.
Oversorrow (v. t.) To grieve or afflict to excess.
Oversoul (n.) The all-containing soul.
Oversow (v. t.) To sow where something has already been sown.
Overspan (v. t.) To reach or extend over.
Overspeak (v. t. & i.) To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.
Overspin (v. t.) To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly.
Overspread (imp. & p. p.) of Overspread
Overspread (v. i.) To be spread or scattered over.
Overspread (v. t.) To spread over; to cover; as, the deluge overspread the earth.
Overspreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overspread
Overspring (v. t.) To spring or leap over.
Overstaid () of Overstay
Overstand (v. t.) To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions.
Overstare (v. i.) To stare wildly.
Overstare (v. t.) To outstare.
Overstate (v. t.) To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.
Overstated (imp. & p. p.) of Overstate
Overstatement (n.) An exaggerated statement or account.
Overstating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstate
Overstay (v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time.
Overstayed (imp. & p. p.) of Overstay
Overstaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstay
Overstep (v. t.) To step over or beyond; to transgress.
Overstepped (imp. & p. p.) of Overstep
Overstepping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstep
Overstock (n.) Stock in excess.
Overstock (v. t.) To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
Overstocked (imp. & p. p.) of Overstock
Overstocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstock
Overstore (v. t.) To overstock.
Overstrain (v. i.) To strain one's self to excess.
Overstrain (v. t.) To stretch or strain too much; as to overstrain one's nerves.
Overstrained (imp. & p. p.) of Overstrain
Overstraining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overstrain
Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.
Overstraw (v. t.) To overstrew.
Overstrew (v. t.) To strew or scatter over.
Overstrict (a.) Excessively strict.
Overstride (v. t.) To stride over or beyond.
Overstrike (v. t.) To strike beyond.
Overstrow (v. t.) See Overstrew.
Overstudious (a.) Too studious.
Oversubtile (a.) Excessively subtile.
Oversum (n.) A sum or quantity over; surplus.
Oversupply (n.) An excessive supply.
Oversupply (v. t.) To supply in excess.
Oversure (a.) Excessively sure.
Oversway (v. t.) To bear sway over.
Overswell (v. t. & i.) To swell or rise above; to overflow.
Overt (a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.
Overt (a.) Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
Overtake (v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
Overtake (v. t.) To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
Overtake (v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
Overtaken (p. p.) of Overtake
Overtaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtake
Overtalk (v. i.) To talk to excess.
Overtask (v. t.) To task too heavily.
Overtax (v. t.) To tax or to task too heavily.
Overtedious (a.) Too tedious.
Overtempt (v. t.) To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance.
Overthrew (imp.) of Overthrow
Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run.
Overthrow (n.) The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrow; ruin.
Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head.
Overthrow (v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.
Overthrow (v. t.) To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
Overthrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overthrow
Overthrown (p. p.) of Overthrow
Overthwart (a.) Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing.
Overthwart (a.) Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite.
Overthwart (n.) That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition.
Overthwart (prep.) Across; from alde to side of.
Overthwart (v. t.) To cross; to oppose.
Overthwartly (adv.) In an overthwart manner; across; also, perversely.
Overthwartness (n.) The state of being overthwart; perverseness.
Overtilt (v. t.) To tilt over; to overturn.
Overtime (n.) Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.
Overtire (v. t.) To become too tired.
Overtire (v. t.) To tire to excess; to exhaust.
Overtitle (v. t.) To give too high a title to.
Overtly (adv.) Publicly; openly.
Overtoil (v. t.) To overwork.
Overtoil (v. t.) To weary excessively; to exhaust.
Overtook (imp.) of Overtake
Overtop (v. t.) To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.
Overtop (v. t.) To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.
Overtop (v. t.) To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.
Overtopped (imp. & p. p.) of Overtop
Overtopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overtop
Overtower (v. i.) To soar too high.
Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.
Overtrade (v. i.) To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.
Overtrading (n.) The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.
Overtread (v. t.) To tread over or upon.
Overtrip (v. t.) To trip over nimbly.
Overtroubled (a.) Excessively troubled.
Overtrow (v. i.) To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much.
Overtrust (n.) Excessive confidence.
Overtrust (v. t. & i.) To trust too much.
Overture () A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
Overture () A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.
Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
Overture () Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
Overture (v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
Overturn (n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.
Overturn (v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.
Overturn (v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
Overturn (v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
Overturnable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
Overvalue (v. t.) To value excessively; to rate at too high a price.
Overvalued (imp. & p. p.) of Overvalue
Overvaluing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overvalue
Overveil (v. t.) To veil or cover.
Overview (n.) An inspection or overlooking.
Overvote (v. t.) To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.
Overwalk (v. t.) To walk over or upon.
Overwar (v. t.) To defeat.
Overwary (a.) Too wary; too cautious.
Overwash (v. t.) To overflow.
Overwasted (a.) Wasted or worn out; /onsumed; spent
Overwatch (v. t.) To watch too much.
Overwatch (v. t.) To weary or exhaust by watching.
Overwax (v. i.) To wax or grow too rapindly or too much.
Overweak (a.) Too weak; too feeble.
Overwear (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.
Overweary (v. t.) To weary too much; to tire out.
Overweather (v. t.) To expose too long to the influence of the weather.
Overween (v. t.) To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume.
Overweigh (v. t.) To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.
Overweight (a.) Overweighing; excessive.
Overweight (n.) Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
Overweight (n.) Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
Overwell (v. t.) To overflow.
Overwent (imp.) of Overgo
Overwet (n.) Excessive wetness.
Overwhelm (n.) The act of overwhelming.
Overwhelm (v. t.) To cause to surround, to cover.
Overwhelm (v. t.) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to crush; to bury; to oppress, etc., overpoweringly.
Overwhelm (v. t.) To project or impend over threateningly.
Overwhelmed (imp. & p. p.) of Overwhelm
Overwhelming (a.) Overpowering; irresistible.
Overwhelming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwhelm
Overwind (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.
Overwing (v. t.) To outflank.
Overwise (a.) Too wise; affectedly wise.
Overwit (v. t.) To outwit.
Overword (v. t.) To say in too many words; to express verbosely.
Overwork (n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.
Overwork (v. t.) To decorate all over.
Overwork (v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.
Overwork (v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.
Overwork (v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.
Overworked (imp. & p. p.) of Overwork
Overworking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwork
Overworn (v. t.) Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.
Overwrest (v. t.) To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.
Overwrestle (v. t.) To subdue by wrestling.
Overwrought () of Overwork
Overwrought (p. p. & a.) Wrought upon excessively; overworked; overexcited.
Overzeal (n.) Excess of zeal.
Overzealous (a.) Too zealous.
Ovicapsule (n.) Same as Ootheca.
Ovicapsule (n.) The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.
Ovicell (n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.
Ovicyst (n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.
Ovidian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.
Oviducal (a.) Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.
Oviduct (n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.
Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.
Oviform (a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.
Ovigerons (a.) Bearing eggs; oviferous.
Ovile (a.) See Ovine.
Ovine (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.
Ovioular (a.) Of or pertaining to an egg.
Ovipara (n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara.
Oviparity (n.) Generation by means of ova. See Generation.
Oviparous (a.) Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.
Oviposit (v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.
Oviposit (v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).
Oviposited (imp. & p. p.) of Oviposit
Ovipositing (n.) Alt. of Oviposition
Ovipositing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oviposit
Oviposition (n.) The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.
Ovipositor (n.) The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.
Ovisac (n.) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.
Ovisac (n.) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
Ovist (n.) Same as Ovulist.
Ovococci (pl. ) of Ovococcus
Ovococcus (n.) A germinal vesicle.
Ovoid (a.) Alt. of Ovoidal
Ovoid (n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.
Ovoidal (a.) Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.
Ovolo (n.) A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.
Ovology (n.) That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.
Ovoplasma (n.) Yolk; egg yolk.
Ovotesttis (n.) An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
Ovoviviparous (a.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.
Ovula (pl. ) of Ovulum
Ovular (a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
Ovulary (a.) Pertaining to ovules.
Ovulate (a.) Containing an ovule or ovules.
Ovulation (n.) The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation.
Ovule (n.) An ovum.
Ovuliferous (a.) Producing ovules.
Ovulite (n.) A fossil egg.
Ovulum (n.) An ovule.
Ovum (n.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.
Ovums (pl. ) of Ovum
Owch (n.) See Ouch.
Owe (v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate.
Owe (v.) To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.
Owe (v.) To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victory to his lieutenants.
Owe (v.) To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own.
Owed (imp. & p. p.) of Owe
Owel (a.) Equal.
Owelty (n.) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty.
Owen (a.) Own.
Owenite (n.) A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.
Owher (adv.) Anywhere.
Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations.
Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or held under obligation of paying; due.
Owing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Owe
Owl (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
Owl (n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.
Owl (v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.
Owl (v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.
Owl (v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.
Owl-eyed (a.) Having eyes like an owl's.
Owled (imp. & p. p.) of Owl
Owler (v. i.) One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.
Owleries (pl. ) of Owlery
Owlery (n.) An abode or a haunt of owls.
Owlet (n.) A small owl; especially, the European species (Athene noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus).
Owling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Owl
Owling (v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.
Owlish (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.
Owlism (n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.
Owllight (n.) Glimmering or imperfect light.
Own (a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
Own (v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
Owned (imp. & p. p.) of Own
Owner (n.) One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
Ownerless (a.) Without an owner.
Ownership (n.) The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
Owning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Own
Owre (n.) The aurochs.
Owse (n.) Alt. of Owser
Owser (n.) Tanner's ooze. See Ooze, 3.
Ox (n.) The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.
Oxacid (n.) See Oxyacid.
Oxalan (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.
Oxalantin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C6H4N4O5) obtained by the reduction of parabanic acid; -- called also leucoturic acid.
Oxalate (n.) A salt of oxalic acid.
Oxaldehyde (n.) Same as Glyoxal.
Oxalethyline (n.) A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.
Oxalic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.
Oxaline (n.) See Glyoxaline.
Oxalis (n.) A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.
Oxalite (n.) A yellow mineral consisting of oxalate of iron.
Oxaluramide (n.) Same as Oxalan.
Oxalurate (n.) A salt of oxaluric acid.
Oxaluric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.
Oxalyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.
Oxalyl (n.) An old name for carbonyl.
Oxalyl (n.) An old name for carboxyl.
Oxamate (n.) A salt of oxamic acid.
Oxamethane (n.) Ethyl oxamate, obtained as a white scaly crystalline powder.
Oxamethylane (n.) Methyl oxamate, obtained as a pearly white crystalline substance.
Oxamic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia.
Oxamide (n) A white crystalline neutral substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.
Oxamidine (n.) One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.
Oxanilate (n.) A salt of oxanilic acid.
Oxanilic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.
Oxanilide (n.) a white crystalline substance, resembling oxanilamide, obtained by heating aniline oxalate, and regarded as a double anilide of oxalic acid; -- called also diphenyl oxamide.
Oxanillamide (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.
Oxbane (n.) A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.
Oxbird (n.) An African weaver bird (Textor alector).
Oxbird (n.) The dunlin.
Oxbird (n.) The sanderling.
Oxbiter (n.) The cow blackbird.
Oxbow (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a river.
Oxen (pl. ) of Ox
Oxeye (n.) A fish; the bogue, or box.
Oxeye (n.) A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
Oxeye (n.) A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. coeruleus).
Oxeye (n.) The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).
Oxeye (n.) The dunlin.
Oxeye (n.) The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.
Oxeyed (a.) Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox.
Oxfly (n.) The gadfly of cattle.
Oxford (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
Oxgang (n.) See Bovate.
Oxgoad (n.) A goad for driving oxen.
Oxhead (n.) Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.
Oxheal (n.) Same as Bear's-foot.
Oxheart (n.) A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.
Oxhide (n.) A measure of land. See 3d Hide.
Oxhide (n.) The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.
Oxid (n.) See Oxide.
Oxidability (n.) Capability of being converted into an oxide.
Oxidable (a.) Capable of being converted into an oxide.
Oxidate (v. t.) To oxidize.
Oxidated (imp. & p. p.) of Oxidate
Oxidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oxidate
Oxidation (n.) The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.
Oxidator (n.) A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.
Oxidator (n.) An oxidizer.
Oxide (n.) A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc.
Oxidizable (a.) Capable of being oxidized.
Oxidize (v. t.) To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.
Oxidize (v. t.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.
Oxidize (v. t.) To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.
Oxidize (v. t.) To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.
Oxidized (imp. & p. p.) of Oxidize
Oxidizement (n.) Oxidation.
Oxidizer (n.) An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.
Oxidizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oxidize
Oxidulated (a.) Existing in the state of a protoxide; -- said of an oxide.
Oxime (n.) One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones.
Oxindol (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H7NO) of the indol group, obtained by the reduction of dioxindol. It is a so-called lactam compound.
Oxiodic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of iodine and oxygen.
Oxlike (a.) Characteristic of, or like, an ox.
Oxlip (n.) The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).
Oxonate (n.) A salt of oxonic acid.
Oxonian (a.) Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.
Oxonian (n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.
Oxonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid (C4H5N3O4) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related.
Oxpecker (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.
Oxshoe (n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.
Oxter (n.) The armpit; also, the arm.
Oxtongue (n.) A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs.
Oxy- () A compound containing oxygen.
Oxy- () A compound containing the hydroxyl group, more properly designated by hydroxy-. See Hydroxy-.
Oxy- () A prefix, also used adjectively
Oxyacetic (a.) Hydroxyacetic; designating an acid called also glycolic acid.
Oxyacid (n.) An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid; -- contrasted with the hydracids, which contain no oxygen, as hydrochloric acid. See Acid, and Hydroxy-.
Oxyammonia (n.) Same as Hydroxylamine.
Oxybenzene (n.) Hydroxy benzene. Same as Phenol.
Oxybenzoic (a.) Hydroxybenzoic; pertaining to, or designating, any one of several hydroxyl derivatives of benzonic acid, of which the commonest is salicylic acid.
Oxybromic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of oxygen and bromine.
Oxybutyric (a.) Hydroxybutyric; designating any one of a group of metameric acids (C3H6.OH.CO2H).
Oxycalcium (a.) Of or pertaining to oxygen and calcium; as, the oxycalcium light. See Drummond light.
Oxycaproic (a.) See Leucic.
Oxychloric (a.) Formerly designating an acid now called perchloric acid. See Perchloric.
Oxychloric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating in general, certain compounds containing oxygen and chlorine.
Oxychloride (n.) A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine; as, plumbic oxychloride.
Oxycrate (n.) A Mixture of water and vinegar.
Oxycymene (n.) Hydroxy cymene. Same as Carvacrol.
Oxygen (n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.
Oxygenate (v. t.) To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).
Oxygenated (imp. & p. p.) of Oxygenate
Oxygenating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oxygenate
Oxygenation (n.) The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.
Oxygenator (n.) An oxidizer.
Oxygenic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.
Oxygenium (n.) The technical name of oxygen.
Oxygenizable (a.) Oxidizable.
Oxygenize (v. t.) To oxidize.
Oxygenized (imp. & p. p.) of Oxygenize
Oxygenizement (n.) Oxidation.
Oxygenizing (p pr. & vb. n.) of Oxygenize
Oxygenous (a.) Oxygenic.
Oxygon (n.) A triangle having three acute angles.
Oxygonal (a.) Alt. of Oxygonial
Oxygonial (a.) Having acute angles.
OxYhaemacyanin (n.) Alt. of Oxyhaemocyanin
Oxyhaemocyanin (n.) See Haemacyanin.
Oxyhaemoglobin (n.) Alt. of Oxyhemoglobin
Oxyhemoglobin (n.) See Hemoglobin.
Oxyhydrogen (a.) Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen; as, oxyhydrogen gas.
Oxymel (n.) A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup.
Oxymethylene (n.) Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.
Oxymoron (n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
Oxymuriate (n.) A salt of the supposed oxymuriatic acid; a chloride.
Oxymuriatic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, oxygen and muriatic acid, that is, hydrochloric acid.
Oxyneurine (n.) See Betaine.
Oxyntic (a.) Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.
Oxyopia (n.) Alt. of Oxyopy
Oxyopy (n.) Excessive acuteness of sight.
Oxyphenic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See Pyrocatechin.
Oxyphenol (n.) A phenol, /////, produced by the distillation of catechin; called also oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.
Oxyphony (n.) Acuteness or shrillness of voice.
Oxyquinoline (n.) Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- called also carbostyril.
Oxyrhyncha (n. pl.) The maioid crabs.
Oxyrrhodine (n.) A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses.
Oxysalt (n.) A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.
Oxysulphide (n.) A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.
Oxysulphuret (n.) An oxysulphide.
Oxytocic (a.) Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition.
Oxytocic (n.) An oxytocic medicine or agent.
Oxytoluene (n.) One of three hydroxy derivatives of toluene, called the cresols. See Cresol.
Oxytone (a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
Oxytone (n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
Oxytone (n.) An acute sound.
Oxytonical (a.) Oxytone.
Oyer (n.) A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing.
Oyez (interj.) Hear; attend; -- a term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation. It is repeated three times.
Oylet (n.) Same as Oillet.
Oylet (n.) See Eyelet.
Oynoun (n.) Onion.
Oyster (n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
Oyster-green (n.) A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing on oysters but common on stones, piles, etc.
Oystering (n.) Gathering, or dredging for, oysters.
Oysterling (n.) A young oyster.
Ozena (n.) A discharge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.
Ozocerite (n.) A waxlike mineral resin; -- sometimes called native paraffin, and mineral wax.
Ozonation (n.) The act of treating with ozone; also, the act of converting into, or producing, ozone; ozonization.
Ozonic (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, ozone.
Ozonification (n.) The act or process of producing, or of subjecting to the action of, ozone.
Ozonization (n.) Ozonation.
Ozonize (v. t.) To convert into ozone, as oxygen.
Ozonize (v. t.) To treat with ozone.
Ozonized (imp. & p. p.) of Ozonize
Ozonizer (n.) An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.
Ozonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ozonize
Ozonometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, or in any gaseous mixture.
Ozonometric (a.) Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.
Ozonometry (n.) The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.
Ozonoscope (n.) An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.
Ozonoscopic (a.) Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.
