(n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

(n.) The exercise of the power of choice; choice.

(n.) A wishing; a wish.

(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.

(n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.

(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.

(v. t.) To 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.

(n.) To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival for a prize.

(v. i.) To be set opposite.

(v. i.) To act adversely or in opposition; -- with against or to; as, a servant opposed against the act.

(v. i.) To make objection or opposition in controversy.

(v. t.) To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.

(v. i.) To labor too hard; to do too much.

(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.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, ozone.

(a.) Characteristic of, or like, an ox.

(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.

(n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.

(n.) A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen. Symbol O. Atomic weight 15.96.

(n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.

(n.) A triangle having three acute angles.

(n.) A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup.

(n.) Excessive acuteness of sight.

(n.) Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.

(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.

(n.) A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

(n.) See Bovate.

(n.) A goad for driving oxen.

(adv.) In an oval form.

(pl. ) of Ovarium

(a.) Ovate.

(n.) See Oxyacid.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical (C2O2) regarded as a residue of oxalic acid and occurring in derivatives of it.

(n.) An old name for carbonyl.

(n.) An old name for carboxyl.

(n.) A way out; exit.

(v. t.) To win a way out of.

(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.

(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.

(n.) Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Owl

(n.) An abode or a haunt of owls.

(v. i.) The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

(n.) Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Own

(a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.

(a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.

(adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

(n.) An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus.

(n.) The precious stone called onyx.

(pl. ) of Ooecium

(a.) Shaped like an egg.

(n.) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ooze

(v. t.) To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

(n.) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.

(n.) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.

(a.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

(n.) An ovule.

(v. t.) To exceed in vying.

(v. t.) To exceed in woe.

(v. t.) To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

(imp.) of Outrun

(p. p.) of Outrun

(v. t.) To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.

(v. t.) To see beyond; to excel in cer/ainty of seeing; to surpass in foresight.

(n.) A setting out, starting, or beginning.

(imp. & p. p.) of Open

(n.) One who, or that which, opens.

(adv.) In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.

(adv.) Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently.

(a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.

(a.) Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.

(n.) That which is opaque; opacity.

(n.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, / Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles.

(pl. ) of Onager

(n.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery.

(n.) A wild ass, especially the koulan.

(adv.) Scarcely. See Unnethe.

(n.) A rushing onward.

(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.

(n.) The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.

(n.) A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea.

(n.) Alt. of Oomiak

(n.) A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos.

(n.) Alt. of Oopak

(n.) A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.

(n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.

(v. t.) To render universal; to enlarge.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oil

(n.) The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

(n.) A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediaeval fortifications.

(n.) A female ogre.

(n.) The character or manners of an ogre.

(a.) Decorated or furnished with olive trees.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties.

(n.) Gout in the shoulder.

(n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.

(n.) Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Omen

(a.) Attended by, or containing, an omen or omens; as, happy-omened day.

(pl. ) of Omentum

(v. i.) To choose; to wish for; to desire.

(n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.

(n.) A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.

(pl. ) of Oilman

(n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.

(a.) Somewhat old.

(n.) A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.

(a.) Alt. of Oleous

(a.) Oily.

(n.) See Olibanum.

() A combining form from Gr. /, few, little, small.

(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.

(a.) Shy or distant in manner.

(n.) A pipe to let off water.

(n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

(n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

(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.

(n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

(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.

(n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Offset

(v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.

(v. t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.

(v. i.) To make an offset.

(n.) A thing made up of eight parts.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ogle

(a.) Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force.

(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.

(n.) A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

(v. t.) To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.

(v. t.) To transgress; to violate; to sin against.

(v. t.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the 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.

(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

(n.) That which is cut off.

(n.) A portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.

(v. t.) To strike against; to attack; to assail.

(v. t.) To displease; to make angry; to affront.

(n.) Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium.

(a.) Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes.

(v. t.) To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.

(imp. & p. p.) of Opine

(n.) One who opines.

(n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.

(n.) Anything which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness.

(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.

(v. t.) To overtop.

(v. t.) To travel over.

(v. t.) To exceed; to surpass.

(v. t.) To cover.

(v. t.) To oppress; to weigh down.

(n.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.

(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.

(n.) Hence: The deity who was supposed to give the answer; also, the place where it was given.

(n.) The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural.

(n.) The sanctuary, or Most Holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.

(n.) One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet.

(n.) Any person reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle.

(n.) A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

(v. i.) To utter oracles.

(adv.) In an oral manner.

(adv.) By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally.

(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.

(n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.

(n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.

(n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orb

(a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.

(n.) Orbation.

(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.

(n.) Archil.

(n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.

(n.) See Archil.

(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

(v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.

(v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.

(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.

(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.

(n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

(n.) Dung; excrement; faeces.

(n.) Defect; imperfection; fault.

(n.) See Oroide.

(n.) The osprey.

(n.) See Origan.

(n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

(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.

(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.

(n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.

(pl. ) of Orgy

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Origanum

(n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

(n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

(n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.

(n.) A prayer; a supplication.

(n.) A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold.

(a.) Adorned; decorated; beautiful.

(a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.

(v. t.) To adorn; to honor.

(a.) Like an oaf; simple.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oar

(n.) An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy.

(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

(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.

(v. t.) To draw over, as a covering.

(v. t.) To harden.

(a.) Alt. of Obdured

(n.) A mark [thus /, or Ö ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.

(imp. & p. p.) of Obey

(n.) One who yields obedience.

(v. t.) Alt. of Obfirmate

(adv.) In passing; incidentally; by the way.

(v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

(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.

(v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.

(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.

(v. t.) That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc.

(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.

(v. t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.

(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.

(a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.

(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.

(n.) A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.

() A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.

() A combining form (also used adjectively)

() 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.

() 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.

(a.) Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.

(a.) Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.

(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.

(a.) One of the Oblati.

(pl. ) of Oblatum

(v. t.) To attach, as by a bond.

(v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.

(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.

(a.) Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.

(n.) A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

(n.) A performer on the oboe.

(n.) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.

(n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.

(n.) To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

(a.) Obovate.

(a.) Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.

(a.) Relating to the Oscines.

(n.) One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

(pl. ) of Osculum

(n.) An osier bed.

(n.) A salt of osmic acid.

(n.) A salt of osmious acid.

(n.) A rare metallic element of the platinum group, found native as an alloy in platinum ore, and in iridosmine. It is a hard, infusible, bluish or grayish white metal, and the heaviest substance known. Its tetroxide is used in histological experiments to stain tissues. Symbol Os. Atomic weight 191.1. Specific gravity 22.477.

(n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.

(n.) The action produced by this tendency.

(n.) The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

(v. t.) To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp.

(v. t.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

(v. t.) Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart.

(v. i.) To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue.

(a.) Osseous.

(n.) Ossein.

(n.) Appearance; air; mien.

(n.) Manifestation; token; portent.

() A combining form of Gr. / a bone.

(v. t.) To hold; to keep; to possess.

(v. t.) To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.

(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.

(v. i.) To prevail; to succeed.

(v. t.) To oppose; to hold out in opposition.

(v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.

(v. t.) To call to witness; to invoke as a witness.

(v. t.) To beseech; to supplicate; to beg for.

(v. i.) To protest.

(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.

(superl.) Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

(superl.) Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses.

(superl.) Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound.

(v. t.) To turn toward.

(n.) An alloy imitating gold or silver.

(n.) An opening; a passage.

(a.) Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.

(v. t.) To eclipse; to hide from sight.

(v. t.) To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

(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.

(v. t.) To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of; to employ; to busy.

(v. t.) To do business in; to busy one's self with.

(v. t.) To use; to expend; to make use of.

(v. t.) To have sexual intercourse with.

(v. i.) To hold possession; to be an occupant.

(v. i.) To follow business; to traffic.

(pl. ) of Ocellus

(n.) An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

(a.) Ocherous.

(n.) A greave or legging.

(n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.

(n.) See Occamy.

(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.

(n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.

(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.

(n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.

(n.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.

(n.) Pain in the ear; otalgia.

(a.) Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.

(n.) Inflammation of the ear.

(n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8¡.

(a.) Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

(n.) Same as Octylene.

(n.) Same as Octant, 2.

(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.

(n.) A hypothetical radical (C8H15O), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.

(n.) A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.

(n.) A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.

(n.) See Octet.

(a.) Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.

(n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.

() A combining form from L. oculus the eye.

(n.) An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.

(n.) A round window, usually a small one.

(n.) The orang-outang.

(n.) A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oust

(n.) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin.

(v. t.) To do or beyond; to exceed in acting.

(v. t.) To bar out.

(v. t.) To surpass in begging.

(imp.) of Outbid

(p. p.) of Outbid

(v. t.) To exceed or surpass in bidding.

(v. t.) To excel in bowing.

(v. i.) To sprout.

(n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

(n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.

(a.) Fitted to excite hatred; hateful.

(a.) Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

(a.) Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.

(n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

(n.) Sale at public auction.

(imp.) of Outdo

(n.) A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.

(v. t.) To surpass in flying; to fly beyond or faster than.

(conj.) Other.

(n.) That which jets out or projects from anything.

(v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.

(n.) A laying out or expending.

(n.) That which is expended; expenditure.

(n.) An outlying haunt.

(n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.

(v. t.) To let out; to emit.

(v. t.) To exceed in lying.

(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.

(n.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the faeces. See Income.

(v. t.) To outshine.

(v. i.) To spread out in array.

(v. t.) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.

(v. t.) To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.

(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.

(n.) Same as Bear's-foot.

(n.) The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.

(n.) A measure of land. See 3d Hide.

(n.) The dunlin.

(n.) The sanderling.

(n.) An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

(n.) Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead.