(a.) Alt. of Oppleted

(n.) Opposition.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oppose

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

(n.) The supraorbital point.

(v. t.) To dry too much.

(a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.

(v. t.) To dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another).

(v. t. & i.) To gnaw all over, or on all sides.

(v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.

(Superl.) Uppermost; outermost.

(v. t.) To superintend; to oversee; to inspect.

(v. t.) To see; to observe.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overfeed

(v. t.) To convert into ozone, as oxygen.

(v. t.) To treat with ozone.

(a.) Pertaining to or containing, ozone. P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.

(v. t.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.

(v. t.) To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as, to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.

(v. t.) To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, so as to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -ic compound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.

(a.) Acid; producing acid; -applied especially to certain glands and cells in the stomach.

(n.) Alt. of Oxyopy

(a.) Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

(n.) An acute sound.

(n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

(n.) A salt of oxamic acid.

(n) A white crystalline neutral substance (C2O2(NH2)2) obtained by treating ethyl oxalate with ammonia. It is the acid amide of oxalic acid. Formerly called also oxalamide.

(n.) The cow blackbird.

(v. t.) To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.

(v. t.) To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of.

(v. t.) To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction.

(v. t.) To buy too much.

(v. t.) To buy at too dear a rate.

(n.) An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid; -- contrasted with the hydracids, which contain no oxygen, as hydrochloric acid. See Acid, and Hydroxy-.

(a.) Alt. of Ovarial

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ovary.

(n.) An ovary. See Ovary.

(pl. ) of Ovary

(n.) A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.

(n.) Hence: An expression of popular homage; the tribute of the multitude to a public favorite.

(v. t.) To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.

(v. t.) To act upon, or influence, unduly.

(v. i.) To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.

(n.) A salt of oxalic acid.

(n.) A yellow mineral consisting of oxalate of iron.

(a.) Forming the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what is external; manifest; public.

(a.) Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war.

(a.) Tending to the exterior or outside.

(n.) External form; exterior.

(v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.

(v. t.) To last longer than; to outlast; as, this cloth will outwear the other.

(v. t.) To weed out.

(v. t.) To exceed in weeping.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(v. i.) To issue forth.

() imp. of Outgo.

(v. t.) To extricate by winding; to unloose.

(v. t.) To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying.

(n.) Opinion.

(n.) That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.

(n.) The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

(n.) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

(n.) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

(n.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

(v. t.) To opine.

(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

(v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.

(v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

(adv.) Onward.

(n.) A whitlow.

(n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail.

(n.) One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.

(pl. ) of Oogonium

(n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.

(n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

(n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

(v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

(v. t.) To ravish; to violate.

(v. t.) To put down; to crush out; to suppress.

(v. t.) To produce a sensation of weight in (some part of the body); as, my lungs are oppressed by the damp air; excess of food oppresses the stomach.

(n.) Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a town.

(n.) An inhabitant of a town.

(n.) A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.

(a.) Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.

(n.) That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

(a.) Pertaining to ovules.

(a.) Containing an ovule or ovules.

(n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

(n.) A fossil egg.

(v. t.) To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down.

(v. t.) To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning.

(v. t.) To exceed in toiling.

(v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.

(v. t.) To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking.

(adv.) Alt. of Outwards

(v. t.) To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

(n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.

(v. t.) To exceed in buffoonery.

(v. t.) To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress.

(v. t.) To make of less importance, or throw into the background, by superior excellence; to dwarf; to obscure.

(n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

(n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

(n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

(a.) Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.; as, an outside estimate.

(adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside.

(v. t.) To surpass in singing.

(v. t.) To soar beyond or above.

(n.) The outside sole of a boot or shoe.

(v. t. & i.) To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon.

(v. t.) To spin out; to finish.

(n.) A place for riding out.

(v. t.) To excel in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.

(v. t.) To river; to sever.

(n.) Alt. of Outrode

(n.) An excursion.

(v. t.) To exceed in roaring.

(v. t.) To eradicate; to extirpate.

(v. i.) To rush out; to issue, or ru/ out, forcibly.

(v. t.) To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than.

(v. t.) To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

(v. t.) To exceed in the price of selling; to fetch more than; to exceed in value.

(v. t.) To shut out.

(n.) The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior.

(n.) The part or space which lies without an inclosure; the outer side, as of a door, walk, or boundary.

(n.) The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.; the utmost; as, it may last a week at the outside.

(n.) One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the outside; external; exterior; superficial.

(adv.) Publicly; openly.

(n.) Any one of the bony plates which support the gill covers of fishes; an opercular bone.

(n.) An operculum.

(a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.

(v. i.) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

(v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

(v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.

(v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.

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

(n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.

(n.) The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.

(a.) Operative.

(n.) An operative person or thing.

(n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.

(n.) Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.

(n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.

(v. t.) To darken; to cloud.

(n.) The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.

(n.) Obscurity; want of clearness.

(a.) Opaque.

(v. t.) To convert into opal, or a substance like opal.

(pl. ) of Onager

(n.) Self-pollution; masturbation.

(n.) The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity.

(a.) Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.

(v. t.) To load; to burden.

(a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

(pron.) A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self.

(n.) A single farmhouse; a steading.

(n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

(n.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or Oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion.

(n.) The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the region near Oneida Lake in the State of New York, and forming part of the Five Nations. Remnants of the tribe now live in New York, Canada, and Wisconsin.

(n.) The state of being at one or reconciled.

(imp. & p. p.) of Omit

(n.) One who omits.

(pl. ) of Ommateum

(n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.

(n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts.

(a.) All-creating.

(n.) See Guacharo.

(a.) Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.

(n.) Alt. of Ogrism

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes; as, olitory seeds.

(a.) Like an olive.

(n.) A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.

(a.) Having the form of the Greek capital letter Omega (/).

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.

(n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon.

(v. t. & i.) To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.

(a.) That may be chosen; desirable.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.

(a.) Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works.

(n.) Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

(n.) A cruciferous herb (Camelina sativa).

(n.) The sesame.

(n.) Cloth made waterproof by oil.

(n.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

(n.) The state or quality of being old; old age.

(n.) An old person.

(n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.

(n.) A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

(a.) Hematite or specular iron ore; -- prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite.

(a.) Alt. of Oligistic

(n.) Removed scum; refuse; dross.

(a.) Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.

(n.) Wine mixed with honey; mead,

(n.) Alt. of Offence

(n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.

(n.) The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.

(n.) A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Offer

(n.) One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship.

(n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.

(n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.

(v. t.) To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.

(v. t.) To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

(a.) Yielding odors; fragrant.

(a.) Odorous.

(n.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

(n.) A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

(n.) See Offense.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the oxidation of narcotine.

(n.) Same as Meconin.

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

(v. t.) To stay beyond or longer than.

(v. t.) To exceed in stepping.

(a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

(n. pl.) An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara.

(a.) Mixed with opiates.

(a.) Under the influence of opiates.

(n.) Workmanship.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vision or sight.

(v. t.) To surpass in bragging; hence, to make appear inferior.

(adv.) Everywhere.

(v. t. & i.) To exceed in burning.

(v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be consumed.

(prep.) Except.

(n.) The exterior wall; the outside surface, or appearance.

(n.) The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.

(a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.

(adv.) In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.

(n.) Same as Oarweed.

(v. t.) To reach; to overtake; to pass.

(v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.

(v. t.) To pass over by, or as by a hop; to skip over; hence, to overpass.

(v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.

(n.) Excessive joy; transport.

(v. t. & i.) To lap over; to lap.

(n.) The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.

(n.) An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.

(v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

(v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.

(v. t.) To put an overlay on.

(n.) A covering.

(n.) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

(imp.) of Overlie

(v. t.) To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.

(a.) Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen.

(n.) Alt. of Opuscule

(n.) A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.

(n.) See Orison.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.

(n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.

(v. i.) To deliver an oration.

(n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.

(a.) Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular.

(n.) A small orb, or sphere.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.

(a.) Orbital.

(n.) A garden.

(n.) An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.

(imp. & p. p.) of Order

(n.) One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.

(n.) One who gives orders.

(a.) Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.

(a.) Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.

(a.) Performed in good or established order; well-regulated.

(a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.

(adv.) According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.

(n.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.

(n.) A street sweeper.

(a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an order.

(n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.

(n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.

(n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.

(n.) Same as Oarweed.

(n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.

(n.) See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

(n.) A kind of transparent light muslin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

(a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.

(a.) Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.

(a.) Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.

() A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.

(n.) Alt. of Organum

(n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.

(n.) Brightness or strength of color.

(n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.

(n.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.

(n.) A young oak.

(n.) The ribbon fish.

(a.) Without oars.

(n.) The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.

(pl. ) of Oarsman

(n.) One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.

(n.) The science or description of mountains.

(a.) Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.

(n.) The orotund voice or utterance

(n.) A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics.

(n.) A cake made of oatmeal.

(n.) Meal made of oats.

(n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass.

(a.) Alt. of Obconical

(n.) The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.

(n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

(n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2.

(v. t.) To mark or designate with an obelisk.

(v. t.) To designate with an obelus; to mark as doubtful or spirituous.

(n.) The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days.

(n.) Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.

(n.) A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oblige

(n.) The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given.

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

(n.) The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.

(a.) Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.

(a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.

(a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

(n.) An oblique line.

(v. i.) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

(v. i.) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.

(n.) Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

(n.) Cause of reproach; disgrace.

(a.) Possessing only small coins; impoverished.

(a.) Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

(a/) Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.

(a/) Foul; fifthy; disgusting.

(a/) Inauspicious; ill-omened.

(n.) A European singing bird (Emberiza hortulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.

(n.) In England, the wheatear (Saxicola oenanthe).

(n.) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail (Porzana Carolina). See Sora.

(n.) One of several species of East Indian birds of the genera Ortygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe. See Turnix.

(superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.

(superl.) Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed.

(superl.) Not noticeable; humble; mean.

(superl.) Not easily understood; not clear or legible; abstruse or blind; as, an obscure passage or inscription.

(superl.) Not clear, full, or distinct; clouded; imperfect; as, an obscure view of remote objects.

(a.) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

(v. i.) To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark.

(n.) Obscurity.

(n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.

(n.) Same as Oscule.

(a.) Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks.

(n.) Obsequiousness.

(a.) Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride.

(n.) Osmose.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.

(n.) A little bone.

(n.) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.

(v. t.) To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or commands; to observe civility.

(v. t.) To be on the watch respecting; to pay attention to; to notice with care; to see; to perceive; to discover; as, to observe an eclipse; to observe the color or fashion of a dress; to observe the movements of an army.

(v. t.) To express as what has been noticed; to utter as a remark; to say in a casual or incidental way; to remark.

(v. i.) To take notice; to give attention to what one sees or hears; to attend.

(v. i.) To make a remark; to comment; -- generally with on or upon.

(a.) Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.

(n.) A species of sturgeon.

(n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

(n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.

(a.) Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.

(n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.

(a.) Resembling bone; bonelike.

(n.) A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.

(v. t.) To thrust impertinently; to present without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company.

(v. t.) To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will.

(v. i.) To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude.

(a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.

(a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

(a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

(v. t.) To meet in the way.

(v. t.) To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.

(a.) Opposing; fronting.

(a.) Exposed; subject; open; liable.

(a.) Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

(n.) The mouth of a river; an estuary.

(n.) One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

(n.) The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate.

(n.) Any small orifice.

(n.) See Osteitis.

(n.) Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.

(n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.

(n.) The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.

(n.) A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.

(v. t.) To shut up; to close.

(v. t.) To take in and retain; to absorb; -- said especially with respect to gases; as iron, platinum, and palladium occlude large volumes of hydrogen.

(a.) Shut; closed.

(n.) Same as Occursion.

(n.) A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

(n.) An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.

(a.) Resembling the ocelot.

(a.) Alt. of Ocreated

(n.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.

(n.) Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.

(sing.) A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

(n.) Pain in the ear; earache.

(a.) Of or pertaining to otalgia.

(n.) A remedy for otalgia.

(pl. ) of Otary

(n.) An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

(n.) Alt. of Otolite

(n.) One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.

(pl. ) of Octavo

(n.) A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.

(a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.

(n.) One of the Octocerata.

(n.) The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.

(n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Brachyurus, especially B. ouakari.

(vb. n.) Waving.

(n.) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,

(a.) Eightfold.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines.

(a.) Alt. of Oculated

(n.) One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.

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

() of Outbid

(a.) Foreign; not native.

(v. t.) To exceed in braying.

(v. t.) To emit with great noise.

(n.) The state of being odd, or not even.

(n.) Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event.

() A combining form from Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth.

(v. t.) To mix with too much.

(v. t.) To surpass in canting.

(a.) Cast out; degraded.

(n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.

(n.) A quarrel; a contention.

(prep.) Except.

(n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

(n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.

(n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.

(v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.

(v. t.) To surpass in daring; to overcome by courage; to brave.

(p. p.) of Outdo

(a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.

(v. t.) To draw out; to extract.

(v. t.) To outlast.

(adv.) Utterly; entirely.

(adv.) Toward the outside.

(v. t.) To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave.

(n.) The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.

(v. t.) To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

(v. t.) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork.

(n.) A quarrel; a falling out.

(v. t.) To exceed in fawning.

(v. t.) To surpass in feats.

(n.) A flowing out; efflux.

(v. i.) To flow out.

(imp.) of Outfly

(v. t.) To exceed in folly.

(n.) External appearance.

(n.) An outlet.

(v. t.) To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance.

(v. t.) To surpass in giving.

(imp.) of Outgo

(p. p.) of Outgo

(pl. ) of Outgo

(n.) One who goes out or departs.

(imp.) of Outgrow

(v. t.) To surpass in growing; to grow more than.

() of Override

(imp.) of Overrun

(p. p.) of Overrun

(v. t.) To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.

(v. t.) To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.

(v. t.) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.

(v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.

(v. t.) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.

(v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.

(v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.

(v. t.) To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

(n.) A pouring out; an outburst.

(v. i.) To gush out; to flow forth.

(n.) A rope used for hauling out a sail upon a spar; -- opposite of inhaul.

(v. t.) To hire out.

(v. t.) To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting.

(a.) Foreign; outlandish.

(v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.

(v. t.) To surpass in leaping.

(n.) A sally.

(v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.

(v. t.) To say over; to repeat.

(a.) Beyond the sea; foreign.

(adv.) Alt. of Overseas

(imp.) of Oversee

(v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

(v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.

(v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overset

(v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.

(v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.

(v. t.) To fill too full.

(v. i.) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.

(n.) An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

(n.) An excess; superfluity.

(n.) One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.

(n.) That which lies, or is, away from the main body.

(n.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.

(n.) An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb.

(n.) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

(n.) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

(n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

(n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.

(v. t.) To draw the outline of.

(v. t.) Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

(v. t.) To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

(n.) An excursion.

(a.) Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.

(v. t.) To exceed in naming or describing.

(v. t.) To exceed in name, fame, or degree.

(n.) The state of being out or beyond; separateness.

(n.) The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity.

(v. t.) To sow where something has already been sown.

(v. t.) To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.

(n.) An outlying part.

(v. t.) To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.

(v. t.) To excel.

(v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.

(n.) A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.

(n.) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.

(n.) The troops placed at such a station.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(n.) A flowing out; a free discharge.

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

(v. t.) To rage in excess of.

(n.) Injurious violence or wanton wrong done to persons or things; a gross violation of right or decency; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; gross injury.

(n.) Excess; luxury.

(n.) To commit outrage upon; to subject to outrage; to treat with violence or excessive abuse.

(n.) Specifically, to violate; to commit an indecent assault upon (a female).

(v. t.) To be guilty of an outrage; to act outrageously.

(v. t.) To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.

(v. t.) To obliterate.

(v. t.) To surpass in giving rede, or counsel.

(v. t.) To surpass in speed of riding; to ride beyond or faster than.

(n.) A riding out; an excursion.

(n.) A sum or quantity over; surplus.

(v. t.) To tax or to task too heavily.

(v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.

(imp.) of Overdo

(n.) A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.

(v. t.) To oxidize.

(n.) Excessive wetness.

(n.) A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

(n.) The upper lip.