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Offend

OFFEND', verb transitive [Latin offendo; of and fendo, obsolete to strike, hit, meet, or thrust against. We use the simple verb in fend, to fend off, to fence.]

1. To attack; to assail. [Not used.]

2. To displease; to make angry; to affront. It expresses rather less than make angry, and without any modifying word, it is nearly synonymous with displease. We are offended by rudeness, incivility and harsh language. Children offend their parents by disobedience, and parents offend their children by unreasonable austerity or restraint.

The emperor was grievously offended with them who had kept such negligent watch.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Proverbs 18:19.

3. To shock; to wound; as, to offend the conscience.

4. To pain; to annoy; to injure; as, a strong light offends weak eyes.

5. To transgress; to violate; as, to offend the laws. But we generally use the intransitive verb in this sense, with against; to offend against the law.

6. To disturb, annoy, or cause to fall or stumble.

Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Psalms 119:165.

7. To draw to evil, or hinder in obedience; to cause to sin or neglect duty.

If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out - if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off. Matthew 5:29.

OFFEND', verb intransitive

1. To transgress the moral or divine law; to sin; to commit a crime.

Whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all. James 2:10.

In many things we offend all. James 3:2.

2. To cause dislike or anger.

I shall offend either to detain or to give it.

But this phrase is really elliptical, some person being understood.

3. To be scandalized; to be stumbled.

If meat make my brother to offend - 1 Corinthians 8:13.

1. To offend against, to act injuriously or unjustly.

Nor yet against Caesar have I offended any thing at all. Acts 25:11.

2. To transgress; to violate; as, to offend against the laws of society, the laws of God, or the rules of civility or propriety.

We have offended against the Lord already. 2 Chronicles 28:13.

Offended

OFFEND'ED, participle passive Displeased.

Offender

OFFEND'ER, noun One that offends; one that violates any law, divine or human; a criminal; a trespasser; a transgressor; one that does an injury. The man who robs, steals, or commits an assault, is an offender

Offending

OFFEND'ING, participle present tense Displeasing; making angry; causing to stumble; committing sin.

Offendress

OFFEND'RESS, noun A female that offends.

Offense

OFFENSE, noun offens'. [Latin offensus, offensa.]

1. Displeasure; anger, or moderate anger. He gave them just cause of offense He took offense

2. Scandal; cause of stumbling. Christ is called a stone of stumbling and rock of offense to both the houses of Israel. Psalms 8:1.

3. Any transgression of law, divine or human; a crime; sin; act of wickedness or omission of duty.

Christ was delivered for our offenses, and raised again for our justification. Romans 4:1.

4. An injury.

I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offense to their memories.

5. Attack; assault; as a weapon of offense

6. Impediment. Matthew 16:1.

Offenseful

OFFENSEFUL, adjective offens'ful. Giving displeasure; injurious. [Not used.]

Offenseless

OFFENSELESS, adjective offens'less. Unoffending; innocent; inoffensive.

Offensive

OFFENS'IVE, adjective

1. Causing displeasure or some degree of anger; displeasing. All sin is offensive to God. Rude behavior is offensive to men. Good breeding forbids us to use offensive words.

2. Disgusting; giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; as an offensive taste or smell; an offensive sight. discordant sounds are offensive to the ears.

3. Injurious.

It is an excellent opener for the liver, but offensive to the stomach.

4. Assailant; used in attack; opposed to defensive; as an offensive weapon or engine.

5. Assailant; invading; making the first attack; opposed to defensive; as an offensive war.

A league offensive and defensive, is one that requires both or all parties to make war together against a nation, and each party to defend the other in case of being attacked.

OFFENS'IVE, noun The part of attacking; as, to act on the offensive

Offensively

OFFENS'IVELY, adverb

1. In a manner to give displeasure; as language offensively harsh or sarcastic.

2. Injuriously; mischievously.

3. By way of invasion or first attack. The enemy was not in a condition to act offensively

4. Unpleasantly to the senses.

Offensiveness

OFFENS'IVENESS, noun

1. The quality that offends or displeases; as the offensiveness of rude language or behavior.

2. Injuriousness; mischief.

3. Cause of disgust; the quality that gives pain to the senses, or unpleasant sensations; as the offensiveness of smell or taste.

Offer

OF'FER, verb transitive [Latin offero; ob and fero, to bring.]

1. Literally, to bring to or before; hence, to present for acceptance or rejection; to exhibit something that may be taken or received or not. He offered me a sum of money. He offered me his umbrella to defend me from the rain.

The heathen women under the Mogul, offer themselves to the flames at the death of their husbands.

2. To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal to.

I offer thee three things. 2 Samuel 24:12.

3. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; often with up.

Thou shalt offer every day a bullock as a sin-offering for atonement. Exodus 29:36.

The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning.

A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.

1 Peter 2:5.

4. To present in prayer or devotion.

Offer to God thanksgiving. Psalms 1:1.

5. To bid, as a price, reward or wages; as, to offer ten eagles for a ring; to offer a hundred dollars a year for a laborer; to offer a salary.

6. To present to the view or to the mind; as ideas which sense or reflection offers to the mind.

To offer violence, to assault; to attack or commence attack.

OF'FER, verb intransitive

1. To present itself; to be at hand.

Th' occasion offers and the youth complies.

2. To present verbally; to declare a willingness. He offered to accompany his brother.

3. To make an attempt.

We came close to the shore and offered to land.

Formerly with at.

I will not offer at that I cannot master. obsolete

OF'FER, noun

1. A proposal to be accepted or rejected; presentation to choice. The prince made liberal offers, but they were rejected.

When offers are disdained, and love deny'd.

2. First advance.

Force compels this offer

3. The act of bidding a price, or the sum bid. By an offer we manifest a desire to buy. When the seller declines accepting, he manifests that he thinks the offer not sufficient.

4. Attempt; endeavor; essay.

It is the power of every one to make some essay, some offer and attempt. [Nearly obsolete.]

Offerable

OF'FERABLE, adjective That may be offered.

Offered

OF'FERED, participle passive Presented for acceptance or rejection; presented in worship or devotion; immolated; bid; presented to the eye or the mind.

Offerer

OF'FERER, noun One that offers; one that sacrifices or dedicates in worship.

Offering

OF'FERING, participle present tense Presenting; proposing; sacrificing; bidding; presenting to the eye or mind.

OF'FERING, noun That which is presented in divine service; an animal or a portion of bread or corn, or of gold and silver, or other valuable articles, presented to God as an atonement for sin, or as a return of thanks for his favors, or for other religious purpose; a sacrifice; an oblation. In the Mosaic economy, there were burnt-offerings, sin-offerings, peace-offerings, trespass-offerings, thank-offerings, wave-offerings, and wood-offerings. Pagan nations also present offerings to their deities. Christ by the offering of himself has superseded the use of all other offerings, having made atonement for all men.

When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed - Isaiah 53:10.

Offertory

OF'FERTORY, noun The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Little used.]

1. offertory was properly an anthem chanted or a voluntary played on the organ during the offering and a part of the mass, in the Catholic church; but since the reformation it denotes certain sentences in the communion-office, read while the alms are collecting.

2. Anciently, the linen on which the offering was laid.

Offerture

OF'FERTURE, noun Offer; proposal. [Not used.]

Office

OF'FICE, noun [Latin officium; ob and facio, to make or do.]

1. A particular duty, charge or trust conferred by public authority and for a public purpose; an employment undertaken by commission or authority from government or those who administer it. Thus we speak of the office of secretary of state, of treasurer, of a judge, of a sheriff, of a justice of the peace, etc. Offices are civil, judicial, ministerial, executive, legislative, political, municipal, diplomatic, military, ecclesiastical, etc.

2. A duty, charge or trust of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as the office of priest, in the Old Testament; and that of the apostles, in the New Testament.

Insomuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office Romans 11:13.

3. Duty or employment of a private nature; as the office of a midwife. Exodus 1:16.

4. That which is performed, intended or assigned to be done by a particular thing, or that which any thing is fitted to perform; answering to duty in intelligent beings. We enjoy health when the several organs of the body perform their respective offices.

In this experiment, the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.

5. Business; particular employment.

Hesperus, whose office is to bring twilight upon the earth.

6. Act of good or ill voluntarily tendered; usually in a good sense; as kind offices; offices of pity; pious offices.

7. Act of worship.

8. Formulary of devotion.

The Lord's prayer, the ten commandments and the creed, is a very good office for children if they are not fitted for more regular offices.

9. A house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as the register's office; a lawyer's office

10. In architecture, an apartment appropriated for the necessary business or occasions of a palace or nobleman's house. The word is used also for a building pertaining to a farm.

11. In the canon law, a benefice which has no jurisdiction annexed to it.

12. The person or persons entrusted with particular duties of a public nature.

- This office [of quarter-master-general] not to have the disposal of public money, except small occasional sums.

OF'FICE, verb transitive To perform; to do; to discharge. [Not used.]

Officer

OF'FICER, noun A person commissioned or authorized to perform any public duty. Officers are civil, military or ecclesiastical. There are great officers of state, and subordinate officers. Military and naval officers of the same grade usually take rank according to the dates of their commissions. Non-commissioned officers are nominated by their captains, and appointed by the commanding officers of regiments.

OF'FICER, verb transitive To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

Count Pulaski raised a legionary corps, which he officered principally with foreigners.

Officered

OF'FICERED, participle passive Furnished with officers.

Official

OFFI'CIAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to an office or public trust. The secretary is engaged in official duties.

2. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as an official statement or report. We have official intelligence of the battle.

3. Conducive by virtue of appropriate powers.

The stomach and other parts official to nutrition. [Unusual.]

OFFI'CIAL, noun An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

Officially

OFFI'CIALLY, adverb By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested; as accounts or reports officially verified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.

Officialty

OFFI'CIALTY, noun The charge or office of an official.

Officiate

OFFI'CIATE, verb transitive

1. To act as an officer in his office; to transact the appropriate business of an office or public trust. At this court the chief justice officiated.

The bishops and priests officiate at the altar.

2. To perform the appropriate official duties of another.

OFFI'CIATE, verb transitive To give in consequence of office.

The stars officiate light. [Improper.]

Officiating

OFFI'CIATING, participle present tense Performing the appropriate duties of an office; performing the office of another.

Officinal

OFFIC'INAL, adjective [Latin officina, a shop.]

Used in a shop or belonging to it. officinal drugs, medicines and simples are such as are required to be constantly kept in the shops of apothecaries.

Officious

OFFI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin officiosus.]

1. Kind; obliging; doing kind offices.

Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries officious

2. Excessively forward in kindness; importunately interposing services.

You are too officious in her behalf that scorns your services.

3. Busy; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern.

Officiously

OFFI'CIOUSLY, adverb

1. Kindly; with solicitous care.

Let thy goats officiously be nurs'd.

2. With importunate or excessive forwardness.

Flattering crowds officiously appear, to give themselves, not you, a happy year.

3. In a busy meddling manner.

Officiousness

OFFI'CIOUSNESS, noun

1. Eagerness to serve; usually, an excess of zeal to serve others, or improper forwardness, interposing in affairs without being desired, or with a disposition to meddle with the concerns of others.

2. Service. [Little used.]

Offing

OFF'ING, noun [from off.] That part of the sea which is at a good distance from the shore, or at a competent distance, where there is deep water and no need of a pilot. We saw a ship in the offing

Offscouring

OFF'SCOURING, noun [off and scour.] That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lamentations 3:45. 1 Corinthians 4:13.

Offset

OFF'SET, noun [off and set.]

1. A shoot; a sprout from the roots of a plant.

2. In surveying, a perpendicular let fall from the stationary lines to the hedge, fence or extremity of an inclosure.

3. In accounts, a sum, account or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent.

[This is also written set-off.]

OFF'SET, verb transitive To set one account against another; to make the account of one party pay the demand of another.

Offspring

OFF'SPRING, noun [off and spring.

1. A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts 17:28. Revelation 22:16.

2. Propagation; generation.

3. Production of any kind.

Offuscate

OFFUSCATE, OFFUSCATION. [See Obfuscate, Obfuscation.]

Offuscation

OFFUSCATE, OFFUSCATION [See Obfuscate, Obfuscation.]

Offward

OFF'WARD, adverb [off and ward.] Leaning off, as a ship on shore.

Oft

OFT, adverb Often; frequently; not rarely. It was formerly used in prose and may be so used still; but is more generally used in poetry.

OFT she rejects, but never one offends.

Often

OFTEN, adverb of'n. comparative oftener; superlative oftenset. Frequently; many times; not seldom.

OFTEN, adjective of'n. Frequent. [Improper.]

Oftenness

OFTENNESS, noun of'nness. Frequency. [Not used.]

Oftentimes

OFTENTIMES, adverb of'ntimes. [often and times.] Frequently; often; many times.

Ofttimes

OFT'TIMES, adverb [oft and times.] Frequently; often.

Og

OG. [See Ogee.]

Ogdoastich

OGDOAS'TICH, noun [Gr. eighth, and a verse.] A poem of eight lines. [Little used.]

Ogee

OGEE', noun

1. In architecture, a molding consisting of two members, the one concave, the other convex, or of a round and a hollow somewhat like an S.

2. In gunnery, an ornamental molding in the shape of an S, used on guns, mortars and howitzers.

Ogganition

OGGANI'TION, noun [Latin obgannio, ogganio, to growl.]

The murmuring of a dog; a grumbling or snarling. [Not used.]

Ogham

O'GHAM, noun A particular kind of stenography or writing in cipher practiced by the Irish.

Ogive

OGIVE, noun o'jiv. In architecture, an arch or branch of the Gothic vault, which passing diagonally from one angle to another forms a cross with the other arches. The middle where the ogives cross each other, is called the key. The members or moldings of the ogives are called nerves, branches or reins, and the arches which separate the ogives, double arches.

Ogle

O'GLE, verb transitive [Latin oculus. See Eye.]

To view with side glances, as in fondness or with design to attract notice.

And ogling all their audience, then they speak.

O'GLE, noun A side glance or look.

Ogler

O'GLER, noun One that ogles.

Ogling

O'GLING, participle present tense Viewing with side glances.

O'GLING, noun The act of viewing with side glances.

Oglio

OGLIO, now written olio, which see.

Ogre

O'GRE,

O'GRESS, noun An imaginary monster of the East.

O'GRESS, noun In heraldry, a cannon ball of a black color.

Oh

OH, exclamation Denoting surprise, pain, sorrow or anxiety.

Oil

OIL, noun It seems to be named from its inflammability, for aelan, is to kindle, and to oil; hence anaelan, to anneal; aeled, fire. Latin oleum; Gr.]

An unctuous substance expressed or drawn from several animal and vegetable substances. The distinctive characters of oil are inflammability, fluidity, and insolubility in water. Oils are fixed or fat, and volatile or essential. They have a smooth feel, and most of them have little taste or smell. Animal oil is found in all animal substances. Vegetable oils are produced by expression, infusion or distillation.

OIL, verb transitive To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil

OIL'-BAG, noun A bag, cyst or gland in animals containing oil

OIL'-COLOR, noun A color made by grinding a coloring substance in oil

Oil-Nut

OIL'-NUT, noun The butternut of North America.

OIL'-NUT,

OIL'-TREE, noun A plant, a species of Ricinus, the palma Christi, or castor, from which is procured castor oil.

OIL'-SHOP, noun A shop where oils and pickles are sold.

Oiled

OIL'ED, participle passive Smeared or anointed with oil.

Oiler

OIL'ER, noun One who deals in oils and pickles.

OIL'-GAS, noun Inflammable gas procured from oil, and used for lighting streets and apartments in buildings.

Oiliness

OIL'INESS, noun The quality of being oily; unctuousness; greasiness; a quality approaching that of oil.

Oiling

OIL'ING, participle present tense Smearing or anointing with oil.

Oilman

OIL'MAN, noun One who deals in oils and pickles.

Oily

OIL'Y, adjective

1. Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the qualities of oil; as oily matter or substance.

2. Resembling oil; as an oily appearance.

3. Fatty; greasy.

Oily-Grain

OILY-GRAIN, noun A plant.

Oily-Palm

OILY-PALM, noun A tree.

Oint

OINT, verb transitive [Latin ungo, like joindre from jungo.]

To anoint; to smear with an unctuous substance.

They oint their naked limbs with mother'd oil.

Ointed

OINT'ED, participle passive Anointed; smeared with an oily or greasy matter.

Ointing

OINT'ING, participle present tense Anointing.

Ointment

OINT'MENT, noun Unguent; any soft, unctuous substance or compound, used for smearing, particularly the body or a diseased part.

Oisanite

OIS'ANITE, noun Pyramidical ore of titanium.

Oke

OKE, noun An Egyptian and Turkish weight, equal to about two pounds and three quarters, English avoirdupois weight.

Oker

OKER. [See Ocher.]

Olate

OLATE, verb transitive [Latin To lay waste, alone.]

1. To deprive of inhabitants; to make desert. The earth was nearly desolated by the flood.

2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; to destroy improvements or works of art. An inundation desolates fields. Whole countries have been desolated by armies.

Old

OLD, adjective

1. Advanced far in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather towards the end of life, or towards the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals or plants; as an old man; an old age; an old camel or horse; an old tree. This adjective is placed after the noun that designates the time lived.

Abraham was seventy five years old when he departed from Haran. Genesis 12:4.

2. Having been long made or used; decayed by time; as an old garment; an old house.

3. Being of long continuance; begun long ago; as an old acquaintance.

4. Having been long made; not new or fresh; as old wine.

5. Being of a former year's growth; not of the last crop; as old wheat; old hay.

6. Ancient; that existed in former ages; as the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.

7. Of any duration whatever; as a year old; seven years old How old art thou?

8. subsisting before something else. He built a new house on the site of the old one. The old law is repealed by the new.

9. Long practiced. he is grown old in vice. He is an old offender.

10. That has been long cultivated; as old land; an old farm; opposed to new land, land lately cleared and cultivated.

11. More than enough; great.

If a man were porter of hellgate, he should have old turning the key.

12. In vulgar language, crafty; cunning.

Of old long ago; from ancient times; as in days of old

We apply old chiefly to things subject to decay. We never say, the old sun, or an old mountain.

Old-Fashioned

OLD-FASH'IONED, adjective formed according to obsolete fashion or custom; as an old-fashioned dress.

Old-fashioned men of wit.

Old-Wife

OLD-WIFE, noun

1. A contemptuous name for an old prating woman. 1 Timothy 4:1.

2. A fish of the genus Labrus, and another of the genus Balistes.

Olden

OLDEN, adjective Old; ancient. [Used in poetry.]

Oldness

OLDNESS, noun

1. Old age; an advanced state of life or existence; as the oldness of a man, of an elephant or a tree.

2. The state of being old, or of a long continuance; as the oldness of a building or a garment.

3. Antiquity; as the oldness of monuments.

Oleaginous

OLEAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin oleaginus, from oleum, oil.] Having the qualities of oil; oily; unctuous.

Oleaginousness

OLEAG'INOUSNESS, noun Oiliness.

Oleander

OLEAN'DER, noun a plant of the genus Nerium the rose-bay or South sea rose; a beautiful shrub with flowers in clusters, of a fine purple color, but of an indifferent smell. The plant, especially the bark of the roots, is said to be poisonous.

Oleaster

OLEAS'TER, noun [Latin from olea, the olive tree.]

A plant of the genus Elaeagnus; the wild olive.

Oleate

O'LEATE, noun A compound of oleic acid with a salifiable base.

Olefiant

OLEF'IANT, adjective [Latin oleo, olfacio.] olefiant gas is a compound of one prime of carbon and one of hydrogen, called by Ure carbureted hydrogen, to distinguish it from the gas resulting from one prime of carbon and two of hydrogen, which he calls subcarbureted hydrogen.

Olefiant gas, is so called from its property of forming with chlorin a compound resembling oil.

Oleic

O'LEIC, adjective [from oil.] The oleic acid is obtained from a soap made by digesting hog's lard in potash lye.

Oleosaccharum

OLEOSAC'CHARUM, noun A mixture of oil and sugar.

Oleose

O'LEOSE,

O'LEOUS, adjective [Latin olcosus.] Oily. [Little used.]

Oleous

O'LEOUS, a. [L. olcosus.] Oily. [Little used.]

Oleraceous

OLERA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin oleracceus, from olus, oleris, pot-herbs.]

Pertaining to pot-herbs; of the nature or qualities of herbs for cookery.

Olfact

OLFACT', verb transitive [Latin olfacto, olfacio; oleo, to smell, and facio, to make.]

To smell; used in burlesque, but not otherwise authorized.

Olfactory

OLFACT'ORY, adjective [Latin olfacio, supra.] Pertaining to smelling; having the sense of smelling; as olfactory nerves.

Oliban

OL'IBAN,

OLIBA'NUM, noun [The word signifies then frankincense, and it is so named from its whiteness.]

A gum-resin consisting of tears or drops, of a yellow transparent color and disagreeable smell. It is brought from Turkey and the East Indies. It is not, as Linne supposed, produced by the Juniperus Lycia, but from a different tree growing in Arabia and Hindoostan. In Arabia, luban is applied to benzoin, which is generally used for incense, and oliban is called condur, whence Gr. In medicine, it is used in fumigations as a resolvent.

Thompson says olibanum is produced by different trees and in different countries.

Olid

OL'ID,

OL'IDOUS, adjective [Latin olidus, from oleo, to smell.] Fetid; having a strong disagreeable smell. [Little used.]

Oligarchal

OLIGARCH'AL,

OLIGARCH'ICAL, adjective [See Oligrachy.] Pertaining to oligrachy, or government by a few.

Oligarchical

OLIGARCH'ICAL, a. [See Oligrachy.] Pertaining to oligrachy, or government by a few.

Oligist

OL'IGIST, 'IC, adjective [Gr. least.] oligist iron, so called, is a crystallized tritoxyd of iron.

Oligrachy

OL'IGRACHY, noun [Gr. few, and rule.]

A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in a few hands; a species of aristocracy.

Olio

O'LIO, noun [Latin olla, a pot.]

1. A mixture; a medley.

2. A miscellany; a collection of various pieces; applied to musical collections.

Olitory

OL'ITORY, adjective [Latin olitor, a gardener, from olus, pot-herbs.]

Belonging to a kitchen garden; as olitory seeds. It may perhaps be used as a noun.

Olivaceous

OLIVA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin oliva, olive.] Of the color of the olive.

Olivaster

OLIVAS'TER, noun [Latin oliva, olive.] Of the color of the olive, tawny.

Olive

OL'IVE, noun [Latin oliva, from olea, an olive tree; Gr. See Oil]

A plant or tree of the genus Olea. The common olive tree grows in warm climates and rises to the height of twenty or thirty feet, having an upright stem with numerous branches. This tree is much cultivated in the south of Europe for its fruit, from which is expressed the olive oil, and which is used also for pickles.

Olive-Yard

OL'IVE-YARD, noun An inclosure or piece of ground in which olives are cultivated. Exodus 23:1.

Olived

OL'IVED, adjective Decorated with olive trees.

Olivenite

OL'IVENITE, noun An ore of copper.

Olivin

OL'IVIN,

OL'IVINE, noun [from olive.] A subspecies of prismatic chrysolite of a brownish green, often inclining to a yellowish or grayish green, usually found in roundish grains in other stones; sometimes in large masses, but not crystallized. It is a constituent of many lavas and frequently occurs in basaltic rocks.

Olivine

OL'IVINE, n. [from olive.] A subspecies of prismatic chrysolite of a brownish green, often inclining to a yellowish or grayish green, usually found in roundish grains in other stones; sometimes in large masses, but not crystallized. It is a constituent of many lavas and frequently occurs in basaltic rocks.

Olympean

OLYM'PEAN, adjective Pertaining to Olympus; or to Olympis, a town in Greece.

Olympic games, or Olympics, solemn games among the ancient Greeks, dedicated to Olympian Jupiter, and celebrated once in four years at Olympia. [See Olympiad.]

Olympiad

OLYM'PIAD, noun [Latin Olympias; Gr. from Olympus, a mountain of Macedonia.]

A period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, and constituting an important epoch in history and chronology. The first olympiad commenced 775 years before the birth of Christ, and 22 years before the foundation of Rome. The computation by Olympiads ceased at the three hundred and sixty fourth olympiad in the year 440 of the christian era.

Omber

OM'BER,

OM'BRE, noun [Latin homo.]

A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, usually played by three persons, though sometimes by two or five.

Ombre

OM'BRE, n. [L. homo.] A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, usually played by three persons, though sometimes by two or five.

Ombrometer

OMBROM'ETER, noun [Gr. rain, and measure.]

A machine or instrument to measure the quantity of rain that falls.

Omega

OME'GA, noun [Gr. great O.] The name of the last letter of the Greek alphabet, as Alpha, A, is the first. Hence in Scripture, Alpha and omega denotes the first and last, the beginning and the ending. Rev.

Omelet

OM'ELET, noun A kind of pancake or fritter made with eggs and other ingredients.

Omen

O'MEN, noun [Latin omen; Heb. an augur.]

A sign or indication of some future event; a prognostic. Superstition and ignorance multiply omens; philosophy and truth reject all omens, except such as may be called causes of the events. Without a miracle, how can one event be the omen of another with which it has no connection?

Omened

O'MENED, adjective Containing an omen or prognostic.

Omentum

OMENT'UM, noun [Latin] In anatomy, the caul or epiploon; a membranaceous covering of the bowels, being placed under the peritoneum and immediately above the intestines.

O'MER, noun [Heb.] A Hebrew measure containing ten baths, or seventy five gallons and five pints of liquids, and eight bushels of things dry. It was the largest measure used by the Jews. It is written also homer and chomer. This word is used by the prophets, but the corresponding measure is called by the historical writers corus.

Omer

OMER

OM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin ominor, from omen.] To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Little used.]

OM'INATE, verb intransitive To foretoken.

Ominate

OM'INATE, v.t. [L. ominor, from omen.] To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Little used.]

OM'INATE, v.i. To foretoken.

Omination

OMINA'TION, noun A foreboding; a presaging; prognostic. [Little used.]

Ominous

OM'INOUS, adjective [Latin ominosus.]

1. Foreboding or presaging evil; indicating a future evil event; inauspicious.

In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous

2. Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good.

Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed.

Ominously

OM'INOUSLY, adverb With good or bad omens.

Ominousness

OM'INOUSNESS, n. The quality of being ominous.

Omissible

OMIS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin omissus. See Omit.] That may be omitted.

Omission

OMIS'SION, noun [Latin omissio, from omitto, omissus.]

1. Neglect or failure to do something which a person had power to do, or which duty required to be done. omission may be innocent or criminal; innocent, when no duty demands performance, but criminal when duty is neglected.

The most natural division of all offenses, is into those of omission and those of commission.

2. A leaving out; neglect or failure; to insert or mention; as the omission of a word or clause.

Omissive

OMIS'SIVE, adjective Leaving out.

Omit

OMIT', verb transitive [Latin omitto; ob and mitto, to send.]

1. To leave, pass by or neglect; to fail or forbear to do or to use; as, to omit an opportunity of writing a letter. To omit known duty is criminal.

2. To leave out; not to insert or mention; as, to omit an important word in a deed; to omit invidious comparisons; to omit a passage in reading or transcribing.

Omittance

OMIT'TANCE, noun Forbearance; neglect. [Not used.]

Omitted

OMIT'TED, participle passive Neglected; passed by; left out.

Omitting

OMIT'TING, participle present tense Neglecting or failing to do or use; passing by; leaving out.

Omnifarious

OMNIFA'RIOUS, adjective [Low Latin omnifarius.] Of all varieties, forms or kinds.

Omniferous

OMNIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin omnifer; omnis, all, and fero, to bear.]

All-bearing; producing all kinds.

Omnific

OMNIF'IC, adjective [Latin omnis, all, and facio, to make.] All-creating.

Thou deep, peace! said then th' omnific word, your discord end.

Omniform

OM'NIFORM, adjective [Latin omnis, all, and forma, form.] Having every form or shape.

Omniformity

OMNIFORM'ITY, noun The quality of having every form.

Omnigenous

OMNIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin omnigenus; omnis, all, every, and genus, kind.] Consisting of all kinds.

Omniparity

OMNIPAR'ITY, noun [Latin omnis, all, and par, equal.] General equality.

Omnipercipience

OMNIPERCIP'IENCE, noun [Latin omnis, and percipiens, perceiving.]

Perception of every thing.

Omnipercipient

OMNIPERCIP'IENT, adjective Perceiving every thing.

Omnipotence

OMNIP'OTENCE, 'OTENCY, noun [Latin omnipotens; omnis, all, and potens, powerful.]

Omnipotent

OMNIP'OTENT, adjective [supra.]

1. Almighty; possessing unlimited power; all powerful. The being that can create worlds must be omnipotent

2. Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as omnipotent love.

Omnipotently

OMNIP'OTENTLY, adverb With almighty power.

Omnipresence

OMNIPRES'ENCE, noun s as z. [Latin omnis, and presens, present.]

Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. omnipresence is an attribute peculiar to God.

Omnipresent

OMNIPRES'ENT, adjective Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitary; as the omnipresent Jehovah.

Omnipresential

OMNIPRESEN'TIAL, adjective Implying universal presence.

Omniscience

OMNIS'CIENCE,

OMNIS'CIENCY, noun [Latin omnis, all, and scientia, knowledge.]

The quality of knowing all things at once; universal knowledge; knowledge unbounded or infinite. omniscience is an attribute peculiar to God.

Omnisciency

OMNIS'CIENCY, n. [L. omnis, all, and scientia, knowledge.] The quality of knowing all things at once; universal knowledge; knowledge unbounded or infinite. Omniscience is an attribute peculiar to God.

Omniscient

OMNIS'CIENT, adjective Having universal knowledge or knowledge of all things; infinitely knowing; all-seeing; as the omniscient God.

Omniscious

OMNIS'CIOUS, adjective [Latin omnis, all, and scio, to know.] All-knowing. [Not used.]

Omnium

OM'NIUM, noun [Latin omnis, all.] The aggregate of certain portions of different stocks in the public funds; a word in use among dealers in the English stocks.

Omnium denotes all the particulars included in the contract between government and the public for a loan.

Omnivorous

OMNIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin omnivorus; omnis, all, and voro, to eat.]

All-devouring; eating every thing indiscriminately.

Omoplate

OM'OPLATE, noun [Gr. shoulder, and broad.] The shoulder blade or scapula.

Omphacine

OM'PHACINE, adjective [Gr. from unripe fruit.]

Pertaining to or expressed from unripe fruit. omphacine oil is a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives. With this the wrestlers in the ancient gymnastic exercises used to anoint their bodies.

Omphacite

OM'PHACITE, noun A mineral of a pale leek green color, massive or disseminated, and in narrow radiated concretions.

Omphalic

OM'PHALIC, noun [Gr. the navel.] Pertaining to the navel.

Omphalocele

OMPHAL'OCELE, noun [Latin navel, and tumor.] A rupture at the navel.

Omphalopter

OM'PHALOPTER,

OMPHALOP'TIC, noun [Gr. navel, and optic.]

An optical glass that is convex on both sides; commonly called a convex lens.

Omphaloptic

OMPHALOP'TIC, n. [Gr. navel, and optic.] An optical glass that is convex on both sides; commonly called a convex lens.

Omphalotomy

OMPHALOT'OMY, noun [Gr. the navel, and to cut.]

The operation of dividing the navel string.

Omy

O'MY, adjective Mellow; as land.

On

ON, pre. [Latin in; Gr. Hence they denote nearness, closeness or contiguity, and from meeting the Latin in and the English un have their power of negation or opposing.]

1. Being in contact with the surface or upper part of a thing and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, my book is on the table; the table stands on the floor; the house rests on its foundation; we lie on a bed, or stand on the earth.

2. Coming or falling to the surface of any thing; as, rain falls on the earth.

Whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken.

Matthew 21:7.

3. Performing or acting by contact with the surface, upper part or outside of anything; as, to play on a harp, a violin, or a drum.

4. Noting addition; as heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss.

5. At or near. When we say, a vessel is on shore, we mean that she is aground; but when we say, a fleet on a ship is on the American coast, or an isle is situated on the coast of England, we mean only that it is near the coast. So we say, on each side stands an armed man, that is, at or near each side.

So we say, Philadelphia is situated on the Delaware; Middlebury is on the Otter Creek; Guilford stands on the Sound; that is, near the river or Sound, instead of on the bank, side or shore.

6. It denotes resting for support; as, to depend on to rely on; hence, the ground of any thing; as, he will covenant on certain considerations or conditions; the considerations being the support of the covenant.

7. At or in the time of; as, on the sabbath we abstain from labor. We usually say, at the hour, on or in the day, in or on the week, month or year.

8. At the time of, with some reference to cause or motive. on public occasions, the officers appear in full dress or uniform.

9. It is put before the object of some passion, with the sense of towards or for. Have pity or compassion on him.

10. At the peril of, or for the safety of. Hence, on thy life.

11. Denoting a pledge or engagement, or put before the thing pledged. He affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor.

12. Noting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling or resting on on us be all the blame.

His blood be on us, and on our children. Matthew 27:19.

13. In consequence of, or immediately after. on the ratification of the treaty, the armies were disbanded.

14. Noting part, distinction or opposition; as on one side and on the other. on our part, expect punctuality.

ON the way, on the road, denote proceeding, traveling, journeying, or making progress.

ON the alert, in a state of vigilance or activity.

ON high, in an elevated place; sublimely.

ON fire, in a state of burning or inflammation, and metaphorically, in a rage or passion.

ON a sudden, suddenly.

ON the wing, in flight; flying; metaphorically, departing.

ON it, on't, is used for of it. I heard nothing on't. the gamester has a poor trade on't. [This use is now vulgar.]

Upon is used in the same sense with on often with elegance, and frequently without necessity or advantage.

ON, adverb

1. Forward, in progression; as, move on; go on

2. Forward, in succession. From father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on

3. In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on take your ease; say on; sing on; write on

4. Adhering; not off; as in the phrase, 'he is neither on nor off, ' that is, he is not steady; he is irresolute.

5. Attached to the body; as, his clothes are not on

To put on to attach to the body, as clothes or arms.

ON, when it expresses contact with the surface of a thing, is opposed to under, off, or within, and when it expresses contact with the side of a thing, is opposed to off.

ON is sometimes used as an exclamation, or rather as a command to move or proceed, some verb being understood; as, cheerily on courageous friends; that is, go on move on

Onager

ON'AGER, noun [Latin] The wild ass.

Onanism

O'NANISM, noun [from Onan, in Scripture.] The crime of self-pollution.

Once

ONCE, adverb wuns. [from one.]

1. One time.

Trees that bear mast are fruitful but once in two years.

2. One time, though no more. The mind once tainted with vice is prone to grow worse and worse.

3. At one former time; formerly.

My soul had once some foolish fondness for thee, but hence 'tis gone.

4. At the same point of time; not gradually.

At once the winds arise, the thunders roll.

At once at the same time; as, they all moved at once; hence, when it refers to two or more, the sense is together, as one.

This hath all its force at once on the first impression.

ONCE is used as a noun, when preceded by this or that; as this once that once

ONCE, noun ons. A quadruped of the genus Felis, less than the panther, of a whitish gray color. It is found in Africa and Asia, is easily tamed and is employed like a dog in hunting.