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Obstetric
OBSTET'RIC, adjective [Latin obstetrix, a midwife; ob and sto, to stand before.]
Pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as the obstetric art.
Obstetricate
OBSTET'RICATE, verb intransitive [See Obstetric.] To perform the office of a midwife. [Little used.]
OBSTET'RICATE, verb transitive To assist as a midwife. [Little used.]
Obstetrication
OBSTETRICA'TION, noun
1. The act of assisting as a midwife.
2. The office of a midwife.
Obstetrician
OBSTETRI'CIAN, noun One skilled in the art of assisting women in parturition.
Obstetrics
OBSTET'RICS, noun The art of assisting women in parturition; midwifery.
Obstinacy
OB'STINACY, noun [Latin obstinatio, from obsto, to stand against, to oppose; ob and sto.]
1. A fixedness in opinion or resolution that cannot be shaken at all, or not without great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose or system; a fixedness that will not yield to persuasion, arguments or other means. obstinacy may not always convey the idea of unreasonable or unjustifiable firmness; as when we say, soldiers fight with obstinacy But often, and perhaps usually, the word denotes a fixedness of resolution which is not to be vindicated under the circumstances; stubbornness; pertinacity; persistency.
2. Fixedness that will not yield to application, or that yields with difficulty; as the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
Obstinate
OB'STINATE, adjective [Latin obstinatus.]
1. Stubborn; pertinaciously adhering to an opinion or purpose; fixed firmly in resolution; not yielding to reason, arguments or other means.
I have known great cures done by obstinate resolutions of drinking no wine.
No ass so meek, no ass os obstinate
2. Not yielding or not easily subdued or removed; as an obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions; an obstinate cough.
Obstinately
OB'STINATELY, adverb Stubbornly; pertinaciously; with fixedness of purpose not to be shaken, or not without difficulty; as a sinner obstinately bent on his own destruction.
Inflexible to ill and obstinately just.
Obstinateness
OB'STINATENESS, noun Stubbornness; pertinacity in opinion or purpose; fixed determination.
Obstipation
OBSTIPA'TION, noun [Latin obstipo; ob and stipo, to crowd.]
1. The act of stopping up; as a passage.
2. In medicine, costiveness.
Obstreperous
OBSTREP'EROUS, adjective [Latin obstreperus, from obstrepo, to roar; ob and strepo.]
Loud; noisy; clamorous; vociferous; making a tumultuous noise.
The players do not only connive at his obstreperous approbation, but repair at their own cost whatever damages he makes.
Obstreperously
OBSTREP'EROUSLY, adverb Loudly; clamorously; with tumultuous noise.
Obstreperousness
OBSTREP'EROUSNESS, noun Loudness; clamor; noisy turbulence.
Obstriction
OBSTRIC'TION, noun [Latin obstrictus, obstringo; ob and stringo, to strain.]
Obligation; bond.
Obstruct
OBSTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin obstruo; ob and struo, to set.]
1. To block up; to stop up or close; as a way or passage; to fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent passing; as, to obstruct a road, highway or channel; to obstruct the canals or fine vessels of the body.
2. To stop; to impede; to hinder in passing; as, the bar at the mouth of the river obstructs the entrance of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun.
3. To retard; to interrupt; to render slow. Progress is often obstructed by difficulties, though not entirely stopped.
Obstructed
OBSTRUCT'ED, participle passive
1. Blocked up; stopped; as a passage.
2. Hindered; impeded; as progress.
3. Retarded; interrupted.
Obstructer
OBSTRUCT'ER, noun One that obstructs or hinders.
Obstructing
OBSTRUCT'ING, participle present tense Blocking up; stopping; impeding; interrupting.
Obstruction
OBSTRUC'TION, noun [Latin obstructio.]
1. The act of obstructing.
2. Obstacle; impediment; any thing that stops or closes a way or channel. Bars of sand at the mouths of rivers are often obstructions to navigation.
3. That which impedes progress; hinderance. disunion and party spirit are often obstructions to legislative measures and to public prosperity.
4. A heap. [Not proper.]
Obstructive
OBSTRUCT'IVE, adjective
Presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
OBSTRUCT'IVE, noun Obstacle; impediment. [Little used.]
Obstruent
OB'STRUENT, adjective [Latin obstruens.] Blocking up; hindering.
OB'STRUENT, noun Any thing that obstructs the natural passages in the body.
Obstupefaction
OBSTUPEFAC'TION, noun [Latin obstupefacio.] The act of making stupid or insensible. [See Stupefaction, which is generally used.]
Obstupefactive
OBSTUPEFAC'TIVE, adjective [Latin obstupefacio.] Stupefying; rendering insensible, torpid or inert. [Little used. See Sti[efactove/]
Obtain
OBTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin obtineo; ob and teneo, to hold.]
1. To get; to gain; to procure; in a general sense, to gain possession of a thing, whether temporary or permanent; to acquire. This word usually implies exertion to get possession, and in this it differs from receive, which may or may not imply exertion. It differs from acquire, as genus from species; acquire being properly applied only to things permanently possessed; but obtain is applied both to things of temporary and of permanent possession. We obtain loans of money on application; we obtain answers to letters; we obtain spirit from liquors by distillation and salts by evaporation. We obtain by seeking; we often receive without seeking. We acquire or obtain a good title to lands by deed, or by a judgment of court; but we do not acquire spirit by distillation; nor do we acquire an answer to a letter or an application.
He shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries. .
In whom we have obtained an inheritance. .
2. To keep; to hold.
OBTA'IN, verb intransitive
1. To be received in customary or common use; to continue in use; to be established in practice.
The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, obtained in the western parts of the empire.
2. To be established; to subsist in nature.
The general laws of fluidity, elasticity and gravity, obtain in animal and inanimate tubes.
3. To prevail; to succeed. [Little used.]
Obtainable
OBTA'INABLE, adjective That may be obtained; that may be procured or gained.
Obtained
OBTA'INED, participle passive Gained; procured; acquired.
Obtainer
OBTA'INER, noun One who obtains.
Obtaining
OBTA'INING, participle present tense Gaining; procuring; acquiring.
Obtainment
OBTA'INMENT, noun The act of obtaining.
Obtend
OBTEND', verb transitive [Latin obtendo; ob and tendo; literally, to stretch against or before.]
1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
2. To pretend; to offer as the reason of any thing. [Not used. This word is rarely used.]
Obtenebration
OBTENEBRA'TION, noun [from Latin ob and tenebrae, darkness.]
A darkening; act of darkening; darkness.
In every megrim or vertigo there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. [Little used.]
Obtension
OBTEN'SION, noun The act of obtending. [Not used.]
Obtest
OBTEST', verb transitive [Latin obtestor; ob and testor, to witness. To beseech; to supplicate.
OBTEST his clemency.
OBTEST', verb intransitive To protest.
Obtestation
OBTESTA'TION, noun
1. Supplication; entreaty.
2. Solemn injunction.
Obtesting
OBTEST'ING, participle present tense Beseeching; supplicating.
Obtrectation
OBTRECTA'TION, noun [Latin obtrectatio, from obtrecto; ob and tracto.]
Slander; detraction; calumny. [Little used.]
Obtrude
OBTRU'DE, verb transitive [Latin obltrudo; ob and trudo, Eng. to thrust.]
1. To thrust in or on; to throw, crowd or thrust into any place or state by force or imposition, or without solicitation. Men obtrude their vain speculations upon the world.
A cause of common error is the credulity of men, that is, an easy assent to what is obtruded.
The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or not.
2. To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge upon against the will.
Why shouldst thou then obtrude this diligence in vain, where no acceptance it can find?
To obtrude one's self, to enter a place where one is not desired; to thrust one's self in uninvited, or against the will of the company.
OBTRU'DE, verb intransitive
1. To enter when not invited.
2. To thrust or be thrust upon.
Obtruded
OBTRU'DED, participle passive Thrust in by force or unsolicited.
Obtruder
OBTRU'DER, noun One who obtrudes.
Obtruding
OBTRU'DING, participle present tense Thrusting in or on; entering uninvited.
Obtruncate
OBTRUN'CATE, verb transitive [Latin obtrunco; ob and trunco, to cut off.]
To deprive of a limb; to lop. [Little used.]
Obtruncation
OBTRUNCA'TION, noun The act of lopping or cutting off. [Little used.]
Obtrusion
OBTRU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin obtrudo, obtrusus.]
The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
Obtrusive
OBTRU'SIVE, adjective Disposed to obtrude any thing upon others; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self among others, or to enter uninvited.
Not obvious, not obtrusive but retired, the more desirable.
Obtrusively
OBTRU'SIVELY, adverb By way of obtrusion or thrusting upon others, or entering unsolicited.
Obtund
OBTUND', verb transitive [Latin obtundo; ob and tundo, to beat.]
To dull; to blunt; to quell; to deaden; to reduce the edge, pungency or violent action of any thing; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
Obturation
OBTURA'TION, noun [Latin obturatus, from obturo, to stop up.]
The act of stopping by spreading over or covering.
Obturator
OB'TURATOR, noun In anatomy, the obturators are muscles which rise from the outer and inner side of the pelvis around foramen thyroideum, and are rotators of the thigh.
Obtusangular
OBTUSANG'ULAR, adjective [obtuse and angular.]
Having angles that are obtuse, or larger than right angles.
Obtuse
OBTU'SE, adjective [Latin obtusus, from obtundo, to beat against.]
1. Blunt; not pointed or acute. Applied to angles, it denotes one that is larger than a right angle, or more than ninety degrees.
2. Dull; not having acute sensibility; as obtuse senses.
3. Not sharp or shrill; dull; obscure; as obtuse sound.
Obtusely
OBTU'SELY, adverb
1. Without a sharp point.
2. Dully; stupidly.
Obtuseness
OBTU'SENESS, noun
1. Bluntness; as the obtuseness of an edge or a point.
2. Dullness; want of quick sensibility; as the obtuseness of the senses.
3. Dullness of sound.
Obtusion
OBTU'SION, noun s as z.
1. The act of making blunt.
2. The state of being dulled or blunted; as the obtusion of the senses.
Obumbrate
OBUM'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin obumbro; ob and umbra, a shade.]
To shade; to darken; to cloud. [Little used.]
Obumbration
OBUMBRA'TION, noun The act of darkening or obscuring.
Obvention
OBVEN'TION, noun [Latin obvenio, ob and venio, to come.]
Something occasional; that which happens not regularly, but incidentally. [Not used.]
Obversant
OBVERS'ANT, adjective [Latin obversans, obversor; ob and versor, to turn.]
Conversant; familiar. [Not used.]
Obverse
OBVERSE, adjective obvers'. In botany, having the base narrower than the top; as a leaf.
OB'VERSE, noun The face of a coin; opposed to reverse.
Obvert
OBVERT', verb transitive [Latin obverto; ob and verto, to turn.] To turn towards.
Obverted
OBVERT'ED, participle passive Turned towards.
Obverting
OBVERT'ING, participle present tense Turning towards.
Obviate
OB'VIATE, verb transitive [Latin obvius; ob and via, way.]
Properly, to meet in the way; to oppose; hence, to prevent by interception, or to remove at the beginning or in the outset; hence in present usage, to remove in general, as difficulties or objections; to clear the way of obstacles in reasoning, deliberating or planning.
To lay down every thing in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions.
Obviated
OB'VIATED, participle passive Removed, as objections or difficulties.
Obviating
OB'VIATING, participle present tense Removing, as objections in reasoning or planning.
Obvious
OB'VIOUS, adjective [Latin obvus. See the Verb.]
1. Meeting; opposed in front.
I to the evil turn my obvious breast. [Not now used.]
2. Open; exposed. [Little used.]
3. Plain; evident; easily discovered, seen or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect. We say, a phenomenon obvious to the sight, or a truth obvious to the mind.
Obviously
OB'VIOUSLY, adverb
1. Evidently; plainly; apparently; manifestly. Men do not always pursue what is obviously their interest.
2. Naturally.
3. Easily to be found.
Obviousness
OB'VIOUSNESS, noun State of being plain or evident to the eye or the mind.
Obvolute
OB'VOLUTE,
OB'VOLUTED, adjective [Latin obvolutus, obvolvo; ob and volvo, to roll.] In botany, obvolute foliation is when the margins of the leaves alternately embrace the straight margin of the opposite leaf.
Obvoluted
OB'VOLUTED, a. [L. obvolutus, obvolvo; ob and volvo, to roll.] In botany, obvolute foliation is when the margins of the leaves alternately embrace the straight margin of the opposite leaf.
Occasion
OCCA'SION, noun s as z. [Latin occasio, from oceido, to fall; ob and cado.]
1. Properly, a falling, happening or coming to; an occurrence, casualty, incident; something distinct from the ordinary course or regular orders of things.
2. Opportunity; convenience; favorable time, season or circumstances.
I'll take th' occasion which he give to bring him to his death.
Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. .
Sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
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3. Accidental cause; incident, event or fact giving rise to something else. What was the occasion of this custom?
Her beauty was the occasion of the war.
4. Incidental need; casual exigency; opportunity accompanied with need or demand. So we say, we have occasion for all our resources. We have frequent occasions for assisting each other.
The ancient canons were well fitted for the occasion of the church in its purer ages.
My occasions have found time to use them toward a supply of money.
OCCA'SION, verb transitive
1. To cause incidentally; to cause; to produce. The expectation of war occasions a depression in the price of stocks. Consumptions are often occasioned by colds. Indigestion occasions pain in the head. Heat occasions lassitude.
2. To influence; to cause.
If we inquire what it is that occasions men to make several combinations of simple ideas into distinct modes -
Occasionable
OCCA'SIONABLE, adjective s as z. That may be caused or occasioned. [Little used.]
Occasional
OCCA'SIONAL, adjective s as z.
1. Incidental; casual; occurring at times, but not regular or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits. We make occasional remarks on the events of the age.
2. Produced by accident; as the occasional origin of a thing.
3. Produced or made on some special event; as an occasional discourse.
Occasionally
OCCA'SIONALLY, adverb s as z. According to incidental exigence; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. He was occasionally present at our meetings. We have occasionally lent our aid.
Occasioned
OCCA'SIONED, participle passive s as z. Caused incidentally; caused; produced.
Occasioner
OCCA'SIONER, noun s as z. One that causes or produces, either incidentally or otherwise.
He was the occasioner of loss to his neighbor.
Occasioning
OCCA'SIONING, participle present tense s as z. Causing incidentally or otherwise.
Occasive
OCCA'SIVE, adjective Falling; descending; western; pertaining to the setting sun.
Amplitude is ortive or occasive
Occecation
OCCECA'TION, noun [Latin occaecatio; ob and caeco, to blind.]
The act of making blind. [Little used.]
Occident
OC'CIDENT, noun [Latin occidens, occido, to fall; ob and cade.]
The west; the western quarter of the hemisphere; so called from the decline or fall of the sun.
Occidental
OCCIDENT'AL, adjective [Latin occidentalis.] Western; opposed to oriental; pertaining to the western quarter of the hemisphere, or to some part of the earth westward of the speaker or spectator; as occidental climates; occidental pearl; occidental gold.
Occiduous
OCCID'UOUS, adjective [Latin occido, occiduus.] Western. [Little used.]
Occipital
OCCIP'ITAL, adjective [from Latin occiput, the back part of the heat; ob and caput.]
Pertaining to the back part of the head, or to the occiput.
Occiput
OC'CIPUT, noun [Latin ob and caput, head.] The hinder part of the head, or that part of the skull which forms the hind part of the head.
Occision
OCCIS'ION, noun s as z. [Latin occisio, from occido, to kill; ob and caedo.]
A killing; the act of killing. [Not used.]
Occlude
OCCLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin occludo; ob and cludo, claudo, to shut.]
To shut up; to close. [Little used.]
Occluse
OCCLU'SE, adjective [Latin occlusus.] Shut; closed. [Little used.]
Occlusion
OCCLU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin occlusio.] a shutting up; a closing.
[This is an elegant word, though little used.]
Occult
OCCULT', adjective [Latin occultus, occulo; ob and celo, to conceal.]
Hidden from the eye or understanding; invisible; secret; unknown; undiscovered; undetected; as the occult qualities of matter.
The occult sciences are magic, necromancy, etc.
OCCULT lines, in geometry, are such as are drawn with the compasses or a pencil, and are scarcely visible.
Occultation
OCCULTA'TION, noun [Latin occultatio.]
1. a hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet.
2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.
Occulted
OCCULT'ED, adjective Hid; secret. [Not used.]
Occultness
OCCULT'NESS, noun the state of being concealed from view; secretness.
Occupancy
OC'CUPANCY, noun [Latin occupo, to take or seize; ob and capio, to seize.]
1. The act of taking possession.
2. In law, the taking possession of a thing not belonging to any person. the person who first takes possession of land is said to have or hold it by right of occupancy
Occupancy gave the original right to the property in the substance of the earth itself.
Occupant
OC'CUPANT, noun
1. He that occupies or takes possession; he that has possession.
2. In law, one that first takes possession of that which has no legal owner. The right of property, either in wild beasts and fowls, or in land belonging to no person, vests in the first occupant The property in these cases follows the possession.
Occupate
OC'CUPATE, verb transitive [Latin occupo.] To hold; to possess; to take up. [Not used.]
Occupation
OCCUPA'TION, noun [Latin occupatio.]
1. The act of taking possession.
2. Possession; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as lands in the occupation of AB.
3. That which engages the time and attention; employment; business. He devotes to study all the time that his other occupations will permit.
4. The principal business of one's life; vocation; calling; trade; the business which a man follows to procure a living or obtain wealth. Agriculture, manufactures and commerce furnish the most general occupations of life. Painting, statuary, music, are agreeable occupations. Men not engaged in some useful occupation commonly fall into vicious courses.
Occupier
OC'CUPIER, noun
1. One that occupies or takes possession.
2. One who holds possession.
3. One who follows an employment. .
Occupy
OC'CUPY, verb transitive [Latin occupo; ob and capio, to seize or take.]
1. To take possession. The person who first occupies land which has no owner, has the right of property.
2. To keep in possession; to possess; to hold or keep for use. The tenant occupies a farm under a lease of twenty one years. A lodger occupies an apartment; a man occupies the chair in which he sits.
3. To take up; to possess; to cover or fill. The camp occupies five acres of ground. Air may be so rarefied as to occupy a vast space. The writing occupies a sheet of paper, or it occupies five lines only.
4. To employ; to use.
The archbishop may have occasion to occupy more chaplains than six.
5. To employ; to busy one's self. Every man should be occupied, or should occupy himself, in some useful labor.
6. To follow, as business.
All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. .
7. To use; to expend.
All the gold that was occupied for the work - . [Not now in use.]
OC'CUPY, verb intransitive To follow business; to negotiate.
Occupy till I come. .
Occupying
OC'CUPYING, participle present tense Taking or keeping possession; employing.
Occur
OCCUR', verb intransitive [Latin occurro; ob and curro, to run.]
1. Primarily, to meet; to strike against; to clash; and so used by Bentley, but this application is obsolete.
2. To meet or come to the mind; to be presented to the mind, imagination or memory. We say, no better plan occurs to me or to my mind; it does not occur to my recollection; the thought did not occur to me.
There doth not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit.
3. To appear; to meet the eye; to be found here and there. This word occurs in twenty places in the Scriptures; the other word does not occur in a single place; it does not occur in the sense suggested.
4. To oppose; to obviate. [Not used.]
Occurrence
OCCUR'RENCE, noun
1. Literally, a coming or happening; hence, any incident or accidental event; that which happens without being designed or expected; any single event. We speak of an unusual occurrence or of the ordinary occurrences of life.
2. Occasional presentation.
Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new.
Occurrent
OCCUR'RENT, noun Incident; any thing that happens. obsolete
Occursion
OCCUR'SION, noun [Latin occursio, from occurro, to meet.] A meeting of bodies; a clash.
Ocean
OCEAN, noun o'shun. [Latin oceanus; Gr.; Heb. to encompass, whence a circle. This is probably an error. The word seems to have for its origin greatness or extent.]
1. The vast body of water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe, called also the sea, or great sea. It is customary to speak of the ocean as if divided into three parts, the Atlantic ocean the Pacific ocean and the Indian ocean; but the ocean is one mass or body, partially separated by the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa on one side, and by America on the other.
2. An immense expanse; as the boundless ocean of eternity; oceans of duration and space.
OCEAN, adjective o'shun. Pertaining to the main or great sea; as the ocean wave; ocean stream.
Oceanic
OCEANIC, adjective oshean'ic. Pertaining to the ocean.
Ocellated
O'CELLATED, adjective [Latin ocellatus, from ocellus, a little eye.]
1. Resembling an eye.
2. Formed with the figues of little eyes.
Ocelot
O'CELOT, noun the Mexican panther.
Ocher
O'CHER, noun [Latin ochra; Gr. from pale.]
A variety of clay deeply colored by the oxyd of iron. Its most common colors are red, yellow and brown. It is used as a pigment.
Ocherous
O'CHEROUS, adjective
1. Consisting of ocher; as ocherous matter.
2. Resembling ocher; as an ocherous color.
Ochimy
OCH'IMY, noun [corrupted from alchimy.] A mixed base metal.
Ochlocracy
OCHLOC'RACY, noun [Gr. the people or a multitude, and to govern.]
A form of government in which the multitude or common people rule.
Ochrey
O'CHREY, adjective Partaking of ocher. [Not used.]
Ochroits
OCH'ROITS, noun Cerite.
Ocra
O'CRA, noun A viscous vegetable substance in the West Indies, used in soups, etc.
It is obtained by boiling the green pods of the Hibiscus esculentus. also, the name of the plant itself.
Octachord
OC'TACHORD, noun an instrument or system of eight sounds.
Octagon
OC'TAGON, noun [Gr. eight and angle.]
1. In geometry, a figure of eight sides and eight angles. When the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular octagon which may be inscribed in a circle.
2. In fortification, a place with eight bastions.
Octagonal
OCTAG'ONAL, adjective Having eight sides and eight angles.
Octahedral
OCTAHE'DRAL, adjective [See octahedron.] Having eight equal sides.
Octahedrite
OCTAHE'DRITE, noun Pyramidical ore of titanium.
Octahedron
OCTAHE'DRON, noun [Gr. eight and a base.]
In geometry, a solid contained by eight equal and equilateral triangles. it is one of the five regular bodies.
Octander
OCTAN'DER, noun [Gr. eight, and a male.] In botany, a plant having eight stamens.
Octandrian
OCTAN'DRIAN, noun Having eight stamens.
Octangular
OCTAN'GULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and angular.] Having eight angles.
Octant
OC'TANT, noun [Latin octans, an eighth part, from octo, eight.]
In astronomy, that aspect of two planets in which they are distant from each other the eighth part of a circle or 45 degrees.
Octave
OC'TAVE, adjective [infra.] Denoting eight.
OC'TAVE, noun [Latin octavus, eighth.]
1. The eighth day after a festival.
2. Eight days together after a festival.
3. In music, an eighth, or an interval of seven degrees or twelve semitones. The octave is the most perfect of the chords, consisting of six full tones and two semitones major. It contains the whole diatonic scale.
Octavo
OCTA'VO, noun [Latin octavus, eighth.] A book in which a sheet is folded into eight leaves. The word is used as a noun or an adjective. We say, an octavo or an octavo volume. The true phrase is, a book in octavo
Octennial
OCTEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and annus, year.]
1. Happening every eighth year.
2. Lasting eight years.
Octile
OC'TILE, noun The same as octant, supra.
October
OCTO'BER, noun [Latin from octo, eighth; the eighth month of the primitive Roman year which began in march.]
The tenth month of the year in our calendar, which follows that of Numa and Julius Caesar.
Octodecimal
OCTODEC'IMAL, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and decem, ten.]
In crystallography, designating a crystal whose prisms, or the middle part, has eight faces, and the two summits together ten faces.
Octodentate
OCTODEN'TATE, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and dentatus, toothed.] Having eight teeth.
Octofid
OC'TOFID, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and findo, to cleave.]
In botany, cleft or separated into eight segments; as a calyx.
Octogenary
OC'TOGENARY, adjective [Latin octogenarius, from octogeni, eighty.] Of eighty years of age.
OC'TOGENARY, noun A person eighty years of age.
Octolocular
OCTOLOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and locus, place.] In botany, having eight cells for seeds.
Octonary
OC'TONARY, adjective [Latin octonarius.] Belonging to the number eight.
Octonocular
OCTONOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and oculus, eye.] Having eight eyes.
Octopetalous
OCTOPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. eight and a petal.] Having eight petals or flower-leaves.
Octoradiated
OCTORA'DIATED, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and radius, ray.] Having eight rays.
Octospermous
OCTOSPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. eight, and seed.] Containing eight seeds.
Octostyle
OC'TOSTYLE, noun [Gr. eight, and style.] In ancient architecture, the face of an edifice adorned with eight columns, or a range of eight columns.
Octosyllable
OCTOSYL'LABLE, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and syllaba, syllable.] Consisting of eight syllables.
Octuple
OC'TUPLE, adjective [Latin octuplus; octo, eight, and plico, to fold.] Eight-fold.
Ocular
OC'ULAR, adjective [Latin ocularius, from oculus, eye.]
Depending on the eye; known by the eye; received by actual sight; as ocular proof; ocular demonstration or evidence.
Ocularly
OC'ULARLY, adverb By the eye, sight or actual view.
Oculate
OC'ULATE, adjective [Latin oculatus.] Furnished with eyes; knowing by the eye.
Oculiform
OC'ULIFORM, adjective [Latin oculus, eye, and forma, form.]
In the form of an eye; resembling the eye in form; as an oculiform pebble.
Oculist
OC'ULIST, noun [from Latin oculus, the eye.] One skilled in diseases of the eyes, or one who professes to cure them.
Oculus beli, a semi-pellucid gem, a variety of agate of a grayish white color, variegated with yellow, and with a black central nucleus. Its variegations resemble the pupil and iris of the eye.
Oculus cati, cat's eye or asteria, a beautiful gem approaching the nature of the opal, having a bright color which seems to be lodged deep in the stone, and which shifts as it is moved in various directions. It is larger than a pea, and generally of a semi-circular form, naturally smooth. It is found in the East and West Indies, and in Europe.
Oculus mundi, otherwise called hydrophane and lapis mutabilis, a precious stone of an opake whitish brown color, but becoming transparent by infusion in an aqueous fluid, and resuming its opacity when dry. It is found in beds over the opals in Hungary, Silesia and Saxony, and over the chalcedonies and agates in Iceland.
Odd
ODD, adjective
1. Not even; not divisible into equal numbers; as one, three, five, seven, etc.
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
2. Left or remaining after the union, estimate or use of even numbers; or remaining after round numbers or any number specified; as the odd number; the odd man.
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed by a deluge.
3. Singular; extraordinary; differing from what is usual; strange; as an odd phenomenon.
It sometimes implies dislike or contempt; as an odd fellow.
4. Not noted; unheeded; not taken into the common account.
There are yet missing some few odd lads that you remember not.
5. Uncommon; particular.
The odd man to perform all three perfectly is Joannes Sturmis.
6. Uncommon; in appearance improper or not likely to answer the purpose. This is an odd way of doing things.
Locke's Essay would be an odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by his critical writings.
7. Separate from that which is regularly occupied; remaining unemployed. I will take some odd time to do this business. He may do it at odd times.
Oddity
ODD'ITY, noun
1. Singularity; strangeness; as the oddity of dress, manners or shape; oddity of appearance.
2. A singular person; in colloquial language. This man is an oddity
Oddly
ODD'LY, adverb
1. Not evenly. [Little used.]
2. Strangely; unusually; irregularly; singularly; uncouthly; as oddly dressed; oddly formed.
A figure oddly turned.
A black substance lying on the ground very oddly shaped.
Oddness
ODD'NESS, noun
1. The state of being not even.
2. Singularity; strangeness; particularity; irregularity; uncouthness; as the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event or accident.
Odds
ODDS, noun s as z. [It is used both in the singular and plural.]
1. Inequality; excess of either compared with the other; difference in favor of one and against another.
Preeminent by so much odds
In this example, much marks the singular number, and many cannot be used.
Cromwell, with odds of number and of fate -
All the odds between them has been the different scope given to their understandings to range in.
Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie.
There appeared at least four to one odds against them.
2. Advantage; superiority.
3. Quarrel; dispute; debate.
It is odds more likely than the contrary. It is odds that he will find a shrewd temptation.
At odds in dispute; at variance; in controversy or quarrel.
That sets us all at odds
Or they must always be at odds
Ode
ODE, noun [Latin ode; Gr.] A short poem or song; a poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem. The ode is of the greater or less kind; the less is characterized by sweetness and ease; the greater by sublimity, rapture and quickness of transition.
Pindar has left Olympic odes, Pythian odes, Nemean odes, and Isthmian odes.
The ode consists of unequal verses in stanzas or strophes.
Odious
O'DIOUS, adjective [Latin odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.]
1. Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice.
All wickedness is odious
2. Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell.
3. Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth.
4. Exposed to hatred.
He rendered himself odious to the parliament.
Odiously
O'DIOUSLY, adverb
1. Hatefully; in a manner to deserve or excite hatred.
2. Invidiously; so as to cause hate.
Odiousness
O'DIOUSNESS, noun
1. Hatefulness; the quality that deserves or may excite hatred; as the odiousness of sin.
2. The state of being hated. [Not usual.]
Odium
O'DIUM, noun [Latin]
1. Hatred; dislike. This measure brought a general odium on his government.
2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
She threw the odium of the fact on me.
Odontalgic
ODONTAL'GIC, adjective [Gr. a tooth, and pain.] Pertaining to the tooth-ache.
ODONTAL'GIC, noun A remedy for the tooth-ache.
Odontalgy
ODONTAL'GY, noun Tooth-ache.
Odor
O'DOR, noun [Latin] Smell; scent; fragrance; a sweet or an offensive smell; perfume.
Odorament
O'DORAMENT, noun [Latin odoramentum.] A perfume; a strong scent.
Odorate
O'DORATE, adjective [Latin odoratus.] Scented; having a strong scent, fetid or fragrant.
Odorating
O'DORATING, adjective Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.
Odoriferous
ODORIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin odoriferus; odor and fero, to bear.]
1. Giving scent; diffusing fragrance; fragrant; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; as odoriferous spices; odoriferous flowers.
2. Bearing scent; as odoriferous gales.
Odoriferousness
ODORIF'EROUSNESS, noun The quality of diffusing scent; fragrance; sweetness of scent.
Odorous
O'DOROUS, adjective Sweet of scent; fragrant.
Odorousness
O'DOROUSNESS, noun Fragrance; the quality of diffusing scent, or of exciting the sensation of smell.
Oeconomical
OECONOMICAL, OECONOMY, OEDEMATOUS, OESOPHAGUS. [See Economical, Economy, Edematous, Esophagus.]
Oeconomy
OECONOMICAL, OECONOMY OEDEMATOUS, OESOPHAGUS. [See Economical, Economy, Edematous, Esophagus.]
Oedematous
OECONOMICAL, OECONOMY, OEDEMATOUS, OESOPHAGUS. [See Economical, Economy, Edematous, Esophagus.]
Oeiliad
OEILIAD, noun A glance; a wink.
Oer
O'ER, contracted from over, which see.
Oesophagus
OECONOMICAL, OECONOMY, OEDEMATOUS, OESOPHAGUS [See Economical, Economy, Edematous, Esophagus.]
Of
OF, preposition ov. [Gr.]
1. From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you. .
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. .
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
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The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. .
Go, inquire of the Lord for me. .
That holy thing that shall be born of thee. .
Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain; ' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain; ' that is, some from or out of others. 'I have known him of old, or of a child; ' that is, from old times, from a child. 'He is of the race of kings; ' that is, descended from kings. 'He is of noble blood or birth, or of ignoble origin.' 'No particle of matter, or no body can move of itself; ' that is, by force or strength proceeding from itself, derived from itself.
'The quarrel is not now of fame and tribute, or of wrongs done; ' that is, from fame or wrongs, as the cause, and we may render it concerning, about, relating to.
'Of this little he had some to spare; ' that is, some from the whole. It may be rendered out of
'Of all our heroes thou canst boast alone; ' that is, thou alone from the number of heroes. This may be rendered among.
'The best of men, the most renowned of all; ' that is, the best from the number of men, the most renowned from the whole; denoting primarily separation, like part.
'I was well entertained of the English Consul; ' that is, entertained from the Consul; my entertainment was from the Consul. This use is obsolete, and we use by in lieu of it.
'This does of right belong to us; ' that is, from right, de jure; our title proceeds from right.
'The chariot was all of cedar; ' that is, made from cedar. So we say, made of gold, made of clay; an application corresponding with our modern use of from; manufactured from wool, or from raw materials. Hence we say, cloth consisting of wool. 'This is a scheme of his own devising; ' that is, from his own devising or device. 'If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; ' that is, as from the ability, as the source of action.
'Of happy, he is become miserable; ' that is, from happy; from being happy, he has passed to being miserable. 'Of necessity this must prove ruinous; ' that is, from necessity, as the cause or source. 'Of a hundred take fifty; ' that is, from a hundred, or out of a hundred, from among a hundred.
OF sometimes implies a part or share.
It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received.
From is then the primary sense of this preposition; a sense retained in off, the same word differently written for distinction. But this sense is appropriately lost in many of its applications; as a man of genius, a man of courage, a man of rare endowments, a fossil of a red color, or of a hexagonal figure. he lost all hope of relief. This is an affair of the cabinet. He is a man of decayed fortune. What is the price of corn? We say that of in these and similar phrases, denotes property or possession, making of the sign of the genitive or possessive case. These applications, however, all proceeded from the same primary sense. That which proceeds from or is produced by a person, is naturally the property or possession of that person, as the son of John; and this idea of property in the course of time would pass to things not thus produced, but still bearing a relation to another thing. Thus we say, the father of a son, as well as the son of a father. In both senses, other languages also use the same word, as in the French de, de la, and Italian di, dell. of then has one primary sense, from, departing, issuing, proceeding from or out of and a derivative sense denoting possession or property.
Off
OFF, adjective auf. Most distant; as the off horse in a team.
OFF, adverb auf.
1. From, noting distance. The house is a mile off
2. From, with the action of removing or separating; as, to take off the hat or cloke. So we say, to cut off to pare off to clip off to peel off to tear off to march off to fly off
3. From, noting separation; as, the match is off
4. From, noting departure, abatement, remission or a leaving. The fever goes off; the pain goes off
5. In painting, it denotes projection or relief.
This comes off well and excellent.
6. From, a way; not towards; as, to look off; opposed to on or toward.
7. On the opposite side of a question.
The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on.
OFF hand, without study or preparation. She plays a tune off hand. He speaks fluently off hand.
OFF and on, at one time applying and engaged, then absent or remiss.
To be off in colloquial language, to depart or to recede from an agreement or design.
To come off to escape, or to fare in the event.
1. To get off to alight; to come down.
2. To make escape
1. To go off to depart; to desert.
2. To take fire; to be discharged; as a gun.
Well off ill off badly off having good or ill success.
OFF, preposition
1. Not on; as, to be off one's legs. He was not off the bed the whole day.
2. Distant from; as about two miles off this town. [Not now used.]
OFF, as an exclamation, is a command to depart, either with or without contempt or abhorrence.
Offal
OF'FAL, noun
1. Waste meat; the parts of an animal butchered which are unfit for use or rejected.
2. Carrion; coarse meat.
3. Refuse; that which is thrown away as of no value, or fit only for beasts.
4. Any thing of no value; rubbish.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.