(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.

(n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.

(n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

(n.) One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.

(n.) The state of being best.

(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.

(n.) See Elective, n.

(n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.

(n.) Government by the nobility.

(n.) Collectively, the nobility.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.

(n.) A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.

(a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

(n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

(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.

(a.) Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

(a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.

(a.) Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

(a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.

(a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.

(n.) One of the Ophiurioidea.

(n.) Same as Ophiurioid.

(n.) A cataract; a waterfall.

(n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.

(n.) One who overdoes.

(v. t.) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

(n.) Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

(imp.) of Overdraw

(v. t.) To exaggerate; to overdo.

(v. t.) To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ozonize

(n.) An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.

(v. t.) To compute or rate too high.

(v. t.) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oxidize

(n.) An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.

(n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.

(n.) A Mixture of water and vinegar.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.

(a.) Alt. of Oxygonial

(n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

(n.) Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

(a.) Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition.

(n.) An oxytocic medicine or agent.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overawe

(v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.

(v. t.) To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

(v. i.) To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

(v. t.) To bend to excess.

(v. i.) To bend over.

(v. t.) To outlive.

(v. i.) To blow over, or be subdued.

(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.

(v. t.) To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.

(v. i.) To boil over or unduly.

(a.) Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent.

(v. i.) To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.

(v. t.) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.

(v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.

(v. t. & i.) To burn too much; to be overzealous.

(n.) Excessive care.

(v. t.) To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

(n.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

(a.) Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.

(n.) Inflammation of the ovaries.

(v. t. & i.) To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.

(a.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.

(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.

(adv.) See Outward, adv.

(v. t.) To exceed in watching.

(v. t.) To weary out.

(v. t.) To exceed in weight or value.

(pl. ) of Owlery

(a.) Having eyes like an owl's.

(n.) Opprobrium.

(n.) An imaginary animal borne as a charge, having wings, an eagle's head, and a short tail; -- sometimes represented without wings.

(imp. & p. p.) of Operate

(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.

(n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.

(pl. ) of Ootheca

(n.) A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.

(n.) One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist.

(n.) That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oppugn

(n.) The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic.

(v. t.) To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.

(v. t.) To disentangle.

(v. t.) To exceed in value.

(v. t.) To exceed in venom.

(v. t.) To exceed in noise.

(v. t.) To exceed in worth.

(v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

(v. t.) To exceed or excel in writing.

() An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

() Disclosure; discovery; revelation.

() A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.

() 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.

(v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.

(v. t.) To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

(v. t.) To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.

(v. t.) To overpower; to conquer.

(v. t.) To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

(v. t.) To fill too full of work; to crowd with labor.

(v. t.) To decorate all over.

(v. t.) To work too much, or beyond one's strength.

(n.) Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

(v. t.) Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

(n.) One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.

(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.

(n.) A horse which is not a favorite in the betting.

(n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town.

(v. t.) To exceed in sleeping.

(v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding.

(v. t.) To surpass in sounding.

(v. t.) To exceed in speaking.

(v. t.) To speak openly or boldly.

(v. t.) To express more than.

(v. t.) To excel in speed.

(n.) Outlay; expenditure.

(v. t.) To exceed in sporting.

(v. i.) To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.

(v. t.) To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding.

(v. t.) To stay beyond.

(v. t.) To excel or overcome in staring; to face down.

(v. t.) To tilt over; to overturn.

(n.) Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

(v. t.) To tire to excess; to exhaust.

(v. t.) To become too tired.

(n.) A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.

(n.) One who rides out on horseback.

(n.) A servant on horseback attending a carriage.

(adv.) Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.

(adv.) Completely; utterly.

(v. t.) To surpass in a rivalry.

(v. t.) To exceed in odor.

(v. t.) To exceed in scolding.

(v. t.) To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn.

(v. t.) To overpower by disdain; to outface.

(v. i.) To shine forth.

(v. t.) To excel in splendor.

(v. t.) To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond.

(v. t.) To overwork.

(v. t.) To weary excessively; to exhaust.

(n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

(n.) The act off overturning, or the state of being overturned or subverted; overthrow; as, an overturn of parties.

(v. t.) To veil or cover.

(n.) An inspection or overlooking.

(v. t.) To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

(v. t.) To walk over or upon.

(a.) Too wary; too cautious.

(v. t.) To overflow.

(a.) Too weak; too feeble.

(v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out.

(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.

(v. t.) To overflow.

(v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

(v. t.) To outflank.

(a.) Too wise; affectedly wise.

(v. t.) To say in too many words; to express verbosely.

(n.) One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.

(n.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

(n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.

(n.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.

(n. pl.) See Operculum.

(pl. ) of Operculum

(n.) A short, light, musical drama.

(n.) One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophidia; belonging to serpents.

(a.) Alt. of Operatical

(a.) Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.

(n.) Alt. of Operancy

(n.) The act of operating or working; operation.

(n.) The quality or state of being open.

(a.) Practicable.

(v. i.) To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Opalize

(n.) The navel.

(n.) The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument.

(n.) The state of being alone.

(n.) Divination by the letters of a name; nomancy.

(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.

(n.) One versed in oology.

(a.) Having the nature of, or belonging to, an oophore.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oophyte.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.

(n.) The shoulder blade, or scapula.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.

() A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the umbilicus, or navel.

(a.) Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.

(n.) That which is omitted or is left undone.

(a.) Leaving out; omitting.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ommateum.

(n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.

(a.) Having every form or shape.

(n.) Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.

(n.) The quality of being oily.

(n.) The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.

(n.) The act of optating; a wish.

(a.) Expressing desire or wish.

(a.) One skilled in optics.

(n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

(n.) That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

(n.) A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

(n.) The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).

(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.

(a.) Forming or producing an oil; specifically, designating a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon called ethylene.

(n.) The state or quality of being oily or fat; fatness.

(n.) A smelling organ; a nose.

(n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

(n.) A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

(n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

(a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.

(n.) The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world.

(n.) A glance of the eye; an amorous look.

(n.) Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

(n.) One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

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

(n.) The act of an offerer; a proffering.

(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.

(n.) A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.

(a.) Free from odor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the gadflies.

(n.) A gadfly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

(imp. & p. p.) of Offend

(n.) One fond of his own opinious; one who holds an opinion.

(v. i.) To start out or up.

(v. t.) To exceed in storming.

(v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.

(v. t.) To exceed in swearing.

(v. t.) To exceed in swelling.

(v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

(p. p.) or prep. Excepted; save.

(v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.

(v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).

(n.) An artificer; a workman.

(a.) Capable of being opined or thought.

(n.) Something to be desired.

(n.) The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.

(a.) One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

(v. t.) To surpass or conquer in argument.

(a.) Outward bound.

(a.) Convex; curved outward.

(n.) In England, sometimes applied to the willow warbler, and to the long-tailed titmouse.

(n. pl.) A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.

(n. pl.) Waterproof leggings.

(a. & adv.) Too long.

(v. t.) To throw out.

(v. t.) To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.

(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.

(n.) In the United States, Seiurus aurocapillus; -- called also golden-crowned thrush.

(adv.) Frequently; often.

(n.) The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

(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.

(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.

(n.) A quarry; an open cut.

(v. t. & i.) To feed to excess; to surfeit.

(v. t.) To fill to excess; to surcharge.

(v. t.) To fish to excess.

(a.) Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar.

(a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.

(v. t.) To gaze; to overlook.

(v. t.) To gild over; to varnish.

(v. t.) To gird too closely.

(v. t.) To give over; to surrender; to yield.

(a.) Excessively or unduly glad.

(imp.) of Overgo

(p. p.) of Overgo

(imp.) of Overgrow

(v. t.) To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.

(v. t.) To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.

(v. i.) To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge, overgrown ox.

(v. t.) To hang over; to jut or project over.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.

(n.) Alt. of Overhauling

(adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.

(v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

(v. t.) To hear again.

(v. t.) To heat to excess; to superheat.

(a.) Too high.

(v. t.) To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.

(a.) Covered over; ornamented with hangings.

(a.) Suspended from above or from the top.

(v. t.) To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.

(n.) A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes.

(v. t.) To load with too great a cargo; to overburden; to overload.

(v. i.) To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast.

(a.) Too late; exceedingly late.

(v. t.) To lave or bathe over.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overlay

(v. t.) To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.

(v. t.) To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.

(v. t.) To lick over.

(p. p.) of Overlie

(v. t.) See Overhaul.

(n.) The upper hand; advantage; superiority; mastery.

(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.

(a.) Done (as pitching or bowling) with the hand higher than the elbow, or the arm above, or higher than, the shoulder.

(adv.) In an overhand manner or style.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overhang

(v. t.) To impend or hang over.

(v. i.) To jut over.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.

(n.) Wealth; riches; affluence.

(n.) See Opulence.

(n.) A small or petty work.

(pl. ) of Opusculum

(n.) A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

(a.) Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism.

(a.) Stormy.

(n.) Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.

(n.) A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

() An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.

(n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.

(n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition.

(n.) A woman who makes public addresses.

(n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.

(a.) Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.

(n.) Alt. of Orbity

(n.) Same as Alkanet, 2.

(pl. ) of Orchis

(n.) Inflammation of the testicles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ordain

(n.) One who ordains.

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

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

(n.) Disposition; distribution; management.

(n.) One about to be ordained.

(a.) Ordaining; decreeing.

(n.) One who ordains.

(a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

(a.) Common; customary; usual.

(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.

(n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.

(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.

(n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.

(n.) The mass; the common run.

(n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.

(n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.

(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.

(n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.

(a.) Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.

(n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.

(v. t.) To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.

(a.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.

(n.) Alt. of Organdy

(n.) Organic structure; organization.

(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.

(n.) One who plays on the organ.

(n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.

(n.) Organism.

(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.

(v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.

(v. t.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.

(n.) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense.

(a.) See Orgillous.

(n.) Alt. of Oriflamme

(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.

(a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

(a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

(a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

(n.) Origin; commencement; source.

(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.

(n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator.

(n.) A person of marked eccentricity.

(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.

(n.) That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

(v. t.) To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.

(adv.) In an ornate manner.

(n.) Decoration; ornamentation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils.

() A combining form fr. Gr. /, /, a bird.

(n.) An aviary; a poultry house.

(imp. & p. p.) of Orphan

(n.) Orphanhood.

(n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing.

(n.) The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.

(a.) Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.

(a.) Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.

(v. t.) To harden.

(a.) Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command.

(a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.

(imp. & p. p.) of Obelize

(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.

(n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

(imp. & p. p.) of Object

(pl. ) of Orrery

(n.) See Archil.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid.

(n.) One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.

(n.) The act of offering, or of making an offering.

(n.) Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.

(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.

(v. t.) To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive.

(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.

(n.) The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.

(a.) See Obbligato.

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

(a.) Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oblique

(n.) The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

(n.) Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.

(adv.) In an oblong form.

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

(n.) One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes.

(v. t.) To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one.

(n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.

(n.) One of the Oscines, or singing birds.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Oscines.

(imp. & p. p.) of Obscure

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

(a.) Yawning; gaping.

(a.) Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.

(v. i.) To gape; to yawn.

(a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.

(a.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

(a.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.

(v. t.) To kiss.

(v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.

(v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.

(v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Observe

(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.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.

(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.

(n.) One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice.

(n.) One who fulfills or performs; as, an observer of his promises.

(n.) A sycophantic follower.

(n.) A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.

(a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances.

(a.) Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.

(v. i.) To become obsolete; to go out of use.

(v.) That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.

(n.) Opposition; impediment; obstruction.

(pl. ) of Ossiculum

(a.) Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ossify

(n.) Inflammation of bone.

(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.

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Obtain

(n.) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

(n.) One who obtains.

(a.) Covered; protected.

(a.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.

(v. t. & i.) To obey (a judgment or decree).

(imp. & p. p.) of Obtest

(imp. & p. p.) of Obtrude

(n.) One who obtrudes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Obtund

(n.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.

(adv.) In an obtuse manner.

(n.) The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

(n.) The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses.

(n.) Obtuseness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Obvert

(imp. & p. p.) of Obviate

(a.) Alt. of Obvoluted

(n.) A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

(n.) A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.

(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.

(n.) Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.

(n.) A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.

(v. t.) To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.

(pl. ) of Occiput

(pl. ) of Occiput

(n.) A killing; the act of killing.

(a.) Hidden; secret.

(a.) Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly body, as a star by the moon.

(adv.) In an occult manner.

(n.) One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.

(n.) A prostitute.

(n.) One who occupies, or has possession.

(n.) One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman.

(imp. & p. p.) of Occupy

(imp. & p. p.) of Occur

(a.) Of or pertaining to ocelli.

(a.) Same as Ocellated.

(a.) Alt. of Ochreous

(a.) Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.

(n.) A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof.

(a.) Alt. of Ochreated

(a.) See Ocherous.

(a.) Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.

(n.) See Octoroon.

(n.) Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease.

(n.) The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.

(a.) Of or pertaining to otoliths.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.

(n.) A marrying eight times.

(n.) A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the number eight.

(n.) An animal having eight feet, as a spider.

(n.) A diseased condition of the ear.

(n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

(n.) The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.

(n.) An auditory ossicle.

(n.) See Wistit.

(n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

(n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.

(adv.) By the eye, or by actual sight.

(a.) Furnished with eyes.

(a.) Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.

(v. t.) To surpass in bleating.

(a.) Inflated with wind.

(v. t.) To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color.

(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.

(v. t.) To excel in bravery o/ in insolence; to defy with superior courage or audacity

(v. t.) To excel in magnificence or comeliness.

(n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.

(v. t.) To surpass in bribing.

(v. t.) To bring or bear out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Outbuild

(v. t.) To exceed in building, or in durability of building.

(n.) A bursting forth.

(pl. ) of Oddity

(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.

(n.) Measurement of distances by the odometer.

(a.) Having the form of a tooth; toothlike.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process.

(adv.) Beyond; moreover.

(a.) Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest.

(a.) Too much.

(adv.) In too great a degree; too much.

(n.) An excess; a surplus.

(v. t.) To name over or in a series; to recount.

(a.) Excessively neat.

(v. t.) To exceed in cheating.

(v. t.) To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing.

(n.) An outer or exterior court.

(n.) One who cries out or proclaims; a herald or crier.

(a.) Being out of date; antiquated.

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

(adv.) Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

(v. t.) To pass, or escape, while dreaming.

(v. t.) To exceed in drinking.

(v. t.) To dwell or stay beyond.

(imp. & p. p.) of Outface

(v. t.) To give too important or difficult a part to.

(v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.

(v. t.) To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.

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

(v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overpay

(v. t.) To peer over; to rise above.

(n.) That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus.

(v. t.) To post over; to pass over swiftly, as by post.

(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.

(a.) Too rank or luxuriant.

(v. t.) To exceed in feasting.

(n.) Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1.

(n.) A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively.

(n.) The part of the field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders.

(n.) The part of the field farthest from the batsman.

(v. t.) To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.

(n.) A gibe; a contemptuous remark.

(p. p.) of Outfly

(v. t.) To frown down; to overbear by frowning.

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

(n.) The act or the state of going out.

(n.) That which goes out; outgo; outlay.

(n.) The extreme limit; the place of ending.

(a.) Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.

(p. p.) of Outgrow

(v. t.) To rate or value too highly.

(n.) An excessive rate.

(a.) Exccessively rich.

(imp.) of Override

() of Override

(v. t.) To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.

(v. t.) To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto.

(v. t.) To ride beyond; to pass; to outride.

(v. t.) To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.

(a.) Matured to excess.

(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.

(n.) A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

(v. t.) To surpass in knavery.

(v. t.) To surpass in laboring.

(v. t.) To surpass or outdo in laughing.

(v. t.) To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.

(imp. & p. p.) of Outlaw

(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.

(n.) The state of being an outlaw.

(v. t.) To excel or surpass in learing.

(v. t.) To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of.

(adv.) Over the sea; abroad.

(p. p.) of Oversee

(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.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oversell

(n.) A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot

(imp. & p. p.) of Outline

(imp. & p. p.) of Outlive

(n.) One who outlives.

(a.) Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.

(v. t.) To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

(v. t.) To mount above.

(v. t.) To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness.

(a.) From Overshoot, v. t.

(v. t.) To skip or leap over; to treat with indifference.

(v. t.) To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

(n.) An outer garment, or slop.

(v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.

(a.) Too slow.

(n.) An overseer; a superintendent.

(n.) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.

(v. t.) To cover with snow, or as with snow.

(adv.) Too soon.

(v. t.) To reach or extend over.

(v. t.) To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly.

(v. t.) To stay beyond the time or the limits of; as, to overstay the appointed time.

(v. t.) To step over or beyond; to transgress.

(v. t.) To outweigh.

(n.) The utmost or last extremity.

(v. t.) To reach beyond.

(v. t.) To go beyond in reigning; to reign through the whole of, or longer than.

(a.) Excessively sure.

(v. t.) To bear sway over.

(imp.) of Overtake

(v. t.) To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

(v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.

(v. i.) To talk to excess.

(v. t.) To task too heavily.

(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.

(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.

(v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

(v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

(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.

(n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.

(a.) Too loud; noisy.

(v. t.) To love to excess.

(v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.

(v. t.) To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

(v. i.) To run over the bounds.

(v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.

(n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.

(n.) That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.

(n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

(imp.) of Overfly

(a.) Fond to excess.

(v. t.) To fill beyond satiety.

(n.) A coat worn over the other clothing; a greatcoat; a topcoat.

(a.) Cold to excess.

(imp.) of Overcome

(p. p.) of Overcome

(v. t.) To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.

(v. t.) To overflow; to surcharge.

(v. t.) To come or pass over; to spreads over.

(v. i.) To gain the superiority; to be victorious.

(v. t.) To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower.

(v. t. & i.) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

(n.) The excess.

(p. p.) of Overdo

(a.) Capable of being converted into an oxide.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oxidate

(n.) An oxidizer.

(n.) A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.

(a.) Excessively nice; fastidious.

(v. t.) To read over, or peruse.

(v. t.) To rent for too much.

(v. t.) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.

(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.

(v. t.) To supersede, reject, annul, or rule against; as, the plea, or the decision, was overruled by the court.

(v. i.) To be superior or supreme in rulling or controlling; as, God rules and overrules.

(v. t.) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.

(v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.

(v. t.) To surpass in size.

(v. t.) To cover with viscid matter.

(n.) The all-containing soul.

(n.) Excess of zeal.

(n.) Glimmering or imperfect light.

(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.

(v. t.) To outlive.

(v. i.) To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively.

(v. t.) To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.

(n.) An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.

(v. t.) To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.