Oragious
O•ra´gious, a. [F. orageux.] Stormy. [R.]

Oraison
Or´ai•son, n. See Orison. [Obs.] Shak.

Orang
O•rang´, n. (Zoöl.) See Orang-outang.

Orangeade
Or•ange•ade´, n. [F., fr. orange.] A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.

Orangeat
Or•an•geat´, n. [F., fr. orange.] Candied orange peel; also orangeade.

Orangeism
Or´ange•ism, n. Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.

Orangeman
Or´ange•man, n. ; pl. -men . One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; — so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.

Orangeroot
Or´ange•root, n. (Bot.) An American ranunculaceous plant ( Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; — also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

Orangery
Or´an•ger•y, n. [F. orangerie, fr. orange. See Orange.] A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

Orangite
Or´an•gite, (Min.) An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.

Orang-outang
O•rang´-ou•tang, n. [Malayan rang tan, i. e., man of the woods; rang man + tan a forest, wood, wild, savage.] (Zoöl.) An arboreal anthropoid ape ( Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang-outan, orang-utan, ourang- utang, and oran-utan.] It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its color is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects.

Orarian
O•ra´ri•an, a. [L. orarius, fr. ora coast.] Of or pertaining to a coast.

Oration
O•ra´tion, n. [L. oratio, fr. orare to speak, utter, pray. See Oral, Orison.] 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.
"The lord archbishop … made a long oration." Bacon.
Syn. — Address; speech. See Harangue.

Oration
O•ra´tion, v. i. To deliver an oration. Donne.

Orator
Or´a•tor, n. [L., fr. orare to speak, utter. See Oration.]
1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
"I am no orator, as Brutus is." Shak.
"Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome." Milton.
2. (Law) (a) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. (b) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. Burrill.
3. (Eng. Universities) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; — called also public orator.

Oratorian
Or•a•to´ri•an, a. Oratorical. [Obs.] R. North.

Oratorian
Or•a•to´ri•an, n. [Cf. F. oratorien.] (R. C. Ch.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.

Oratorio
Or•a•to´ri•o, n. [It., fr. L. oratorius belonging to praying. See Orator, and cf. Oratory.]
1. (Mus.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted. There are instances of secular and mythological subjects treated in the form of the oratorios, and called oratorios by their composers; as Haydn’s "Seasons," Handel’s "Semele," etc.
2. Performance or rendering of such a composition.

Oratorize
Or´a•tor•ize, v. i. To play the orator. [Jocose or derisive] Dickens.

Oratory
Or´a•to•ry, n. ; pl. Oratories (#). [OE. oratorie, fr. L. oratorium, fr. oratorius of praying, of an orator: cf. F. oratoire. See Orator, Oral, and cf. Oratorio.] A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
"An oratory [temple] … in worship of Dian." Chaucer.
"Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in." Jer. Taylor.Fathers of the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living in community, and not bound by a special vow. The members are called also oratorians.

Oratory
Or´a•to•ry, n. [L. oratoria (sc. ars) the oratorical art.] The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence. "The oratory of Greece and Rome." Milton.
"When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory." Shak.

Oratress
Or´a•tress, n. A woman who makes public addresses. Warner.

Oratrix
Or´a•trix, n. [L.] A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading. Burrill.

Orb, n. [OF. orb blind, fr. L. orbus destitute.] (Arch.) A blank window or panel. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

Orb, n. [F. orbe, fr. L. orbis circle, orb. Cf. Orbit.]
1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
"In the small orb of one particular tear." Shak.
"Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled." Milton.
2. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
3. A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
"The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs." Bacon.
"You seem to me as Dian in her orb." Shak.
"In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb." Milton.
4. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. [R.] Milton.
5. The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic]
"A drop serene hath quenched their orbs." Milton.
6. A revolving circular body; a wheel. [Poetic]
"The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled." Milton.
7. A sphere of action. [R.] Wordsworth.
"But in our orbs we’ll live so round and safe." Shak
8. Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
9. (Mil.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Syn. — Globe; ball; sphere. See Globe.

Orb, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Orbed p. pr. & vb. n. Orbing.]
1. To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] Milton. Lowell.
2. To encircle; to surround; to inclose. [Poetic]
"The wheels were orbed with gold." Addison.

Orb, v. i. To become round like an orb. [Poetic]
"And orb into the perfect star." Tennyson.

Orbate
Or´bate, a. [L. orbatus, p. p. of orbare to bereave, fr. orbus bereaved of parents or children. See Orphan.] Bereaved; fatherless; childless. [Obs.]

Orbed, a. Having the form of an orb; round.
"The orbèd eyelids are let down." Trench. { Or´bic, Or´bic•al } a. [L. orbicus, or orbitus, fr. orbis orb.] Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular. [R.] Bacon.

Orbicle
Or´bi•cle, n. [L. orbiculus, dim. of orbis orb.] A small orb, or sphere. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Orbicula
Or•bic´u•la, n. [NL. See Orbicle.] (Zoöl.) Same as Discina.

Orbiculate
Or•bic´u•late, n. That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular. { Or•bic´u•late, Or•bic´u•la•ted } a. [L. orbiculatus. See Orbicular.] Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline. Orbiculate leaf (Bot.), a leaf whose outline is nearly circular.

Orbit
Or´bit, n. [L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel, course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d Orb.]
1. (Astron.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
2. An orb or ball. [Rare & Improper]
"Roll the lucid orbit of an eye." Young.
3. (Anat.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
4. (Zoöl.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

Orbitar
Or´bit•ar, a. [Cf. F. orbitaire.] Orbital. [R.] Dunglison.

Orbitary
Or´bit•a•ry, a. Situated around the orbit; as the orbitary feathers of a bird.

Orbitelae
Or•bi•te´lae, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. orbis an orb + tela a web.] (Zoöl.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.

Orbitolites
Or•bi•to•li´tes, n. [NL. See Orbit, and -lite.] (Zoöl.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.

Orbitosphenoid
Or•bi•to•sphe´noid, a. [ Orbit + sphenoid.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. — n. The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

Orbitosphenoidal
Or•bi•to•sphe•noid´al, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.

Orbituary
Or•bit´u•a•ry, a. Orbital. [R.] { Or´bi•tude, Or´bi•ty } n. [L. orbitudo, orbitas, fr. orbus: cf. F. orbite. See Orbate.] Orbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Orby
Orb´y, a. [From 2d Orb.] Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving. [Obs.] "Orby hours." Chapman.

Orcadian
Or•ca´di•an, a. [L. Orcades the Orkney Islands.] Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.

Orcein
Or´ce•in, n. (Chem.) A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff,, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.

Orchal
Or´chal, n. See Archil.

Orchardist
Or´chard•ist, n. One who cultivates an orchard.

Orchel
Or´chel, n. Archil.

Orchesography
Or•che•sog´ra•phy, n. [Gr. dance + -graphy.] A treatise upon dancing. [R.]

Orchester
Or´ches•ter, n. See Orchestra.

Orchestral
Or´ches•tral, a. Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.

Orchestration
Or•ches•tra´tion, n. (Mus.) The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; — called also instrumentation.

Orchestre
Or´ches•tre, n. [F.] See Orchestra.

Orchestrion
Or•ches´tri•on, n. A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.

Orchid
Or´chid, n. [See Orchis.] (Bot.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.

Orchidean
Or•chid´e•an, a. (Bot.) Orchidaceous.

Orchideous
Or•chid´e•ous, a. (Bot.) Same as Orchidaceous.

Orchidology
Or•chid•ol´o•gy, n. [Gr. the orchis + -logy.] The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

Orchil
Or´chil, n. See Archil.

Orchotomy
Or•chot´o•my, n. [Gr. a testicle + to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.

Orcin
Or´cin, n. [Etymology uncertain: cf. F. orcine.] (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance, C₆H₃.CH₃.(OH)₂, which is obtained from certain lichens ( Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.

Ord, n. [AS. ord point.] An edge or point; also a beginning. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Ord and end, the beginning and end. Cf. Odds and ends, under Odds. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Halliwell.

Ordainer
Or•dain´er, n. One who ordains.

Ordainment
Or•dain´ment, n. Ordination. [R.] Burke.

Ordal
Or´dal, n. Ordeal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ordalian
Or•da´li•an, a. [LL. ordalium.] Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Ordeal
Or´de•al (ôr"de• al), n. [AS. ordal, ordael, a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig., what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to a. compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning, out. See Deal, v. & n. , and cf. Arise, Ort.]
1. An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, — once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes. In England ordeal by fire and ordeal by water were used, the former confined to persons of rank, the latter to the common people. The ordeal by fire was performed, either by handling red-hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares, laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed, either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase, to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or danger, is derived from the ordeal. See Wager of battle, under Wager.
2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar. — Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. — Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar ( Tanghinia, or Cerbera, venenata). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.

Ordeal
Or´de•al, a. Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.

Order
Or´der, n. [OE. ordre, F. ordre, fr. L. ordo, ordinis. Cf. Ordain, Ordinal.]
1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: (a) Of material things, like the books in a library. (b) Of intellectual notions or ideas like the topics of a discource. (c) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
"The side chambers were … thirty in order." Ezek. xli. 6.
"Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable." Milton.
"Good order is the foundation of all good things." Burke.
2. Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. Locke.
3. The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. Dantiel.
"And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt." Emerson.
4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
5. That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as the rules and orders of the senate.
"The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish." Hooker.
6. A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
"Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England." Clarendon.
7. Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as orders for blankets are large.
"In those days were pit orders — beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them." Lamb.
8. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also a distinct character, kind, or sort; as the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
"They are in equal order to their several ends." Jer. Taylor.
"Various orders various ensigns bear." Granville.
"Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime." Hawthorne.
9. A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
"Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me." Shak.
"The venerable order of the Knights Templars." Sir W. Scott.
10. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; — often used in the plural; as to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
11. (Arch.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing. The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, — Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of Capital.
12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia. The Linnaean artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several tribes.
13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation. Artificial order or system. See Artificial classification, under Artificial, and Note to def. 12 above. — Close order (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in open order. — The four Orders, The Orders four, the four orders of mendicant friars. See Friar. Chaucer. — General orders (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders. — Holy orders. (a) (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10 above. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring a special grace on those ordained. — In order to, for the purpose of; to the end; as means to.
"The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness." Tillotson. — Minor orders (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. — Money order. See under Money. — Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. — Order book. (a) A merchant’s book in which orders are entered. (b) (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded for the information of officers and men. (c) A book in the House of Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [Eng.] — Order in Council, a royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain] — Order of battle (Mil.), the particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. — Order of the day, in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day. — Order of a differential equation (Math.), the greatest index of differentiation in the equation. — Sailing orders (Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise. — Sealed orders, orders sealed, and not to be opened until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea. — Standing order. (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct of parliamentary business. (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer temporarily in command. — To give order, to give command or directions. Shak. — To take order for, to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning.
"Whiles I take order for mine own affairs." Shak.
Syn. — Arrangement; management. See Direction.

Order
Or´der, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ordered p pr. & vb. n. Ordering.] [From Order, n. ]
1. To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
"To him that ordereth his conversation aright." Ps. 1. 23.
"Warriors old with ordered spear and shield." Milton.
2. To give an order to; to command; as to order troops to advance.
3. To give an order for; to secure by an order; as to order a carriage; to order groceries.
4. (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
"These ordered folk be especially titled to God." Chaucer.
"Persons presented to be ordered deacons." Bk. of Com. Prayer.Order arms (Mil.), the command at which a rifle is brought to a position with its but resting on the ground; also the position taken at such a command.

Order
Or´der, v. i. To give orders; to issue commands.

Orderable
Or´der•a•ble, a. Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.]
"Being very orderable in all his sickness." Fuller.

Orderer
Or´der•er, n.
1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
2. One who gives orders.

Ordering
Or´der•ing, n. Disposition; distribution; management. South.

Orderless
Or´der•less, a. Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.

Orderliness
Or´der•li•ness, n. The state or quality of being orderly.

Orderly
Or´der•ly, a.
1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as an orderly course or plan. Milton.
2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as orderly children; an orderly community.
3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly … march." Clarendon.
4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." Sir W. Scott.Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. — Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. Farrow. — Orderly room. (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried. (b) The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate. Farrow. — Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company.

Orderly
Or´der•ly, adv. According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.
"You are blunt; go to it orderly." Shak.

Orderly
Or´der•ly, n. ; pl. Orderlies .
1. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
"Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace." Macaulay.
2. A street sweeper. [Eng.] Mayhew.

Ordinability
Or•di•na•bil´i•ty, n. Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.

Ordinable
Or´di•na•ble, a. [See Ordinate, Ordain.] Capable of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.]

Ordinalism
Or´di•nal•ism, n. The state or quality of being ordinal. [R.] Latham.

Ordinance
Or´di•nance, n. [OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance. See Ordain, and cf. Ordnance, Ordonnance.]
1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser.
"They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance." Chaucer.
2. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as a municipal ordinance.
"Thou wilt die by God’s just ordinance." Shak.
"By custom and the ordinance of times." Shak.
"Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless." Luke i. 6. Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances; also certain colonial laws and certain acts of Congress under Confederation; as the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; the colonial ordinance of 1641, or 1647. This word is often used in Scripture in the sense of a law or statute of sovereign power. Ex. xv. 25. Num. x. 8. Ezra iii. 10. Its most frequent application now in the United States is to laws and regulations of municipal corporations. Wharton (Law Dict.).
3. (Eccl.) An established rite or ceremony.
4. Rank; order; station. [Obs.] Shak.
5. [See Ordnance.] Ordnance; cannon. [Obs.] Shak.

Ordinarily
Or´di•na•ri•ly, adv. According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as a winter more than ordinarily severe.
"Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration." I. Taylor.

Ordinary
Or´di•na•ry, a. [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf. F. ordinaire. See Order.]
1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison.
2. Common; customary; usual. Shak.
"Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing." Addison.
3. Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
"An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way." Macaulay. Ordinary seaman (Naut.), one not expert or fully skilled, and hence ranking below an able seaman.
Syn. — Normal; common; usual; customary. See Normal. — Ordinary, Common. A thing is common in which many persons share or partake; as a common practice. A thing is ordinary when it is apt to come round in the regular common order or succession of events.

Ordinary
Or´di•na•ry, n. ; pl. Ordinaries (-riz).
1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death. (c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
"I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature’s salework." Shak.
3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
"Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary." Bacon.
4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
"Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries." Sir W. Scott.
5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d’hôte; hence, also the meal furnished at such a dining room. Shak.
"All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style." Swift.
"He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries." Bancroft.
6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; — said of a naval vessel. — Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day; — called also the canon of the Mass.

Ordinate
Or´di•nate, a. [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain.] Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

Ordinate
Or´di•nate, n. (Geom.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured. The ordinate and abscissa, taken together, are called coördinates, and define the position of the point with reference to the two axes named, the intersection of which is called the origin of coördinates. See Coordinate.

Ordinate
Or´di•nate, v. t. To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.

Ordinately
Or´di•nate•ly, adv. In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.

Ordination
Or•di•na´tion, n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.]
1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
"The holy and wise ordination of God." Jer. Taylor.
"Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively." Norris.
2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.

Ordinative
Or´di•na•tive, a. [L. ordinativus.] Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.

Ordinator
Or´di•na•tor, n. [L.] One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.

Ordnance
Ord´nance, n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance.] Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
"All the battlements their ordnance fire." Shak.
"Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate’s] rifled ordnance." E. Ererett.Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.

Ordovician
Or•do•vi´cian, a. [From L. Ordovices, a Celtic people in Wales.] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. — n. The Ordovician formation.

Ordure
Or´dure, n. [F. ordure, OF. ord filthy, foul, fr. L. horridus horrid. See Horrid.]
1. Dung; excrement; faeces. Shak.
2. Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] Holland.

Ore (or), n. [AS. a. .] Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ore, n. [AS. ara; cf. a. brass, bronze, akin to OHG. er, G. ehern brazen, Icel. eir brass, Goth. ais, L. aes, Skr. ayas iron. rad.210. Cf. Ora, Era.]
1. The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
2. (Mining) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
3. Metal; as the liquid ore. [R.] Milton. Ore hearth, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; — also called Scotch hearth. Raymond.

Oreades
O•re´a•des, n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.

Oregon grape
Or"e•gon grape (or"e•gon grap•). (Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry ( Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also its roundish, blue- black berries.

Oreide
O´re•ide, n. See Oroide.

Oreodont
O´re•o•dont, a. (Paleon.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.

Oreographic
O•re•o•graph´ic, a. Of or pertaining to oreography.

Oreography
O•re•og´ra•phy, n. [Gr. ’o•ros, -eos, mountain + -graphy.] The science of mountains; orography.

Oreoselin
O•re•os´e•lin, n. (Chem.) A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant ( Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.

Oreosoma
O•re•o•so´ma, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ’o•ros, -eos, mountain + body.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

Oreweed
Ore´weed, n. Same as Oarweed.

Orfray
Or´fray, n. [F. orfraie. Cf. Osprey, Ossifrage.] (Zoöl.) The osprey. [Obs.] Holland.

Organic
Or•gan´ic, a. [L. organicus, Gr. : cf. F. organique.]
1. (Biol.) 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.
2. Produced by the organs; as organic pleasure. [R.]
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end. [R.]
"Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously." Milton.
4. 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.
5. 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. The principles of organic and inorganic chemistry are identical; but the enormous number and the completeness of related series of organic compounds, together with their remarkable facility of exchange and substitution, offer an illustration of chemical reaction and homology not to be paralleled in inorganic chemistry. Organic analysis (Chem.), the analysis of organic compounds, concerned chiefly with the determination of carbon as carbon dioxide, hydrogen as water, oxygen as the difference between the sum of the others and 100 per cent, and nitrogen as free nitrogen, ammonia, or nitric oxide; — formerly called ultimate analysis, in distinction from proximate analysis. — Organic chemistry. See under Chemistry. — Organic compounds. (Chem.) See Carbon compounds, under Carbon. — Organic description of a curve (Geom.), the description of a curve on a plane by means of instruments. Brande & C. — Organic disease (Med.), a disease attended with morbid changes in the structure of the organs of the body or in the composition of its fluids; — opposed to functional disease. — Organic electricity. See under Electricity. — Organiclaw or laws, a law or system of laws, or declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and organization of a political or other association; a constitution. — Organic stricture (Med.), a contraction of one of the natural passages of the body produced by structural changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic stricture, which is due to muscular contraction.

Organically
Or•gan´ic•al•ly, adv. In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.

Organicalness
Or•gan´ic•al•ness, n. The quality or state of being organic.

Organicism
Or•gan´i•cism, n. (Med.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

Organific
Or•gan•if´ic, a. [ Organ + L. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See fy.] Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs. Prof. Park.

Organist
Or´gan•ist, n. [Cf. F. organiste.]
1. (Mus.) One who plays on the organ.
2. (R. C. Ch.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts. [Obs.]

Organista
Or•ga•nis´ta, n. [Sp., an organis.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.

Organity
Or•gan´i•ty, n. Organism. [R.]

Organizability
Or•gan•i•za•bil´i•ty, n. Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.

Organizable
Or´gan•i•za•ble, a. Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as organizable matter.

Organization
Or•gan•i•za´tion, n. [Cf. F. organisation.]
1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.
2. The state of being organized; also the relations included in such a state or condition.
"What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means?" Coleridge.
3. That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism; specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life.
"The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization." McKendrick.

Organize
Or´gan•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Organized p. pr. & vb. n. Organizing ] [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. . See Organ.]
1. (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as an organized being; organized matter; — in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
"These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce." Ray.
2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; — applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
"This original and supreme will organizes the government." Cranch.
3. (Mus.) To sing in parts; as to organize an anthem. [R.] Busby.

Organling
Or´gan•ling, n. (Zoöl.) A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.

Organo-
Or´ga•no- [See Organ.] A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.

Organogenesis
Or•ga•no•gen´e•sis, n. [ Organo- + genesis.]
1. (Biol.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
2. (Biol.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, — a branch of morphogeny. Haeckel.

Organogenic
Or•ga•no•gen´ic, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to organogenesis.

Organogeny
Or•ga•nog´e•ny, n. (Biol.) Organogenesis. { Or•ga•no•graph´ic, Or•ga•no•graph´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. organographique.] Of or pertaining to organography.

Organographist
Or•ga•nog´ra•phist, n. One versed in organography.

Organography
Or•ga•nog´ra•phy, n. [ Organo- + -graphy: cf. F. organographie.] A description of the organs of animals or plants.

Organoleptic
Or•ga•no•lep´tic, a. [F. organoleptique, fr. Gr. an organ + to lay hold of.] (Physiol.) Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; - - said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.

Organological
Or•ga•no•log´ic•al, a. Of or relating to organology.

Organology
Or•ga•nol´o•gy, n. [ Organ + -logy: cf. F. organologie.]
1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.
"The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style." De Quincey.
2. That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.

Organophyly
Or•ga•noph´y•ly, n. [ Organo- + Gr. clan.] (Biol.) The tribal history of organs, — a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.

Organoplastic
Or•ga•no•plas´tic, a. [ Organo- + -plastic.] (Biol.) Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as the organoplastic cells.

Organoscopy
Or•ga•nos´co•py, n. [ Organo- + -scopy.] Phrenology. Fleming.

Organotrophic
Or•ga•no•troph´ic, a. [ Organo- + Gr. to nourish.] (Biol.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.

Organule
Or´gan•ule, n. [Dim. of organ.] (Anat.) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense. Huxley.

Orgasm
Or´gasm, n. [F. orgasme; cf. Gr. a kneading, softening, prob. confused with to swell, espicially with lust; to feel an ardent desire.] (Physiol.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

Orgeat
Or´geat, n. [F., fr. orge barley, L. hordeum.] A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, — used to flavor beverages or edibles.

Orgeis
Or´ge•is, n. (Zoöl.) See Organling.

Orgue, n. [F., fr. L. organum organ, Gr. . See Organ.] (Mil.) (a) Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack. (b) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.

Oricalche
Or´i•calche, n. [Obs.] See Orichalch.
"Costly oricalche from strange Phœnice." Spenser.

Orichalch
Or´i•chalch, n. [L. orichalcum, Gr. ; ’o•ros, mountain + chalko•s brass: cf. F. orichalque.] A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; — called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.

Oriel
O´ri•el, n. [OF. oriol gallery, corridor, LL. oriolum portico, hall, prob. fr. L. aureolus gilded, applied to an apartment decorated with gilding. See Oriole.] [Formerly written also oriol, oryal, oryall.]
1. A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.] W. Hamper.
2. A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] Cowell.
3. (Arch.) A bay window. See Bay window.
"The beams that thro’ the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass." Tennyson. There is no generally admitted difference between a bay window and an oriel. In the United States the latter name is often applied to bay windows which are small, and either polygonal or round; also to such as are corbeled out from the wall instead of resting on the ground.

Orientalism
O•ri•en´tal•ism, n. [Cf. F. orientalisme.]
1. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.
2. Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev.

Orientalist
O•ri•en´tal•ist, n. [Cf. F. orientaliste.]
1. An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
2. One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as the Paris Congress of Orientalists. Sir J. Shore.

Orientality
O•ri•en•tal´i•ty, n. The quality or state of being oriental or eastern. Sir T. Browne.

Orientalize
O•ri•en´tal•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Orientalized p. pr. & vb. n. Orientalizing ] to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.

Orientation
O•ri•en•ta´tion, n. [Cf. F. orientation.]
1. The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
2. The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth’s axis.
3. An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.
4. Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
"The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter." L. F. Ward.

Orientness
O´ri•ent•ness, n. The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor. [Obs.] Fuller.

Orifice
Or´i•fice, n. [F., from L. orificium; os, oris, a mouth + facere to make. See Oral, and Fact.] 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. Shak.
"Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice." Addison. { Or´i•flamb, Or´i•flamme }, n. [F. oriflamme, OF. oriflambe, LL. auriflamma; L. aurum gold + flamma flame; cf. L. flammula a little banner. So called because it was a flag of red silk, split into many points, and borne on a gilded lance.]
1. The ancient royal standard of France.
2. A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." Longfellow.
"And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre." Macaulay. { Or´i•gan, O•rig´a•num } n. [L. origanum, Gr.,, prob. fr. ’o•ros, mountain + brightness, beauty. Cf. Organy.] (Bot.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram ( O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram ( O. vulgare). Spenser.

Origenist
Or´i•gen•ist, n. A follower of Origen of Alexandria.

Origin
Or´i•gin, n. [F. origine, L. origo, -iginis, fr. oriri to rise, become visible; akin to Gr. ’orny•nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. r, and perh. to E. run.]
1. The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
"This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry." Burke.
2. That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
3. (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; — in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.
Syn. — Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain; derivation; cause; root; foundation. — Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or commencement of a thing; source presents itself under the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is the source of most of the calamities of our race.
"I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas — the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs." Tooke.
"Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought." Waller.

Original
O•rig´i•nal, a. [F. original, L. originalis.]
1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
"His form had yet not lost All her original brightness." Milton.
2. Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
3. Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as an original genius.
4. Before unused or unknown; new; as a book full of original matter. Original sin (Theol.), the first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; — called also total depravity. See Calvinism.

Original
O•rig´i•nal, n. [Cf. F. original.]
1. Origin; commencement; source.
"It hath it original from much grief." Shak.
"And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim." Addison.
2. That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
"The Scriptures may be now read in their own original." Milton.
3. An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]
"Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals." C. G. Leland.
4. A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]
5. (Zoöl. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

Originalist
O•rig´i•nal•ist, n. One who is original. [R.]

Originality
O•rig•i•nal´i•ty, n. [Cf. F. originalite.] The quality or state of being original. Macaulay.

Originally
O•rig´i•nal•ly, adv.
1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.
"God is originally holy in himself." Bp. Pearson.
2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as a book originally written by another hand. "Originally a half length [portrait]." Walpole.

Originalness
O•rig´i•nal•ness, n. The quality of being original; originality. [R.] Johnson.

Originant
O•rig´i•nant, a. Originating; original. [R.]
"An absolutely originant act of self will." Prof. Shedd.

Originary
O•rig´i•na•ry, a. [L. originarius: cf. F. originaire.]
1. Causing existence; productive. [R.]
"The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth." Cheyne.
2. Primitive; primary; original. [R.]
"The grand originary right of all rights." Hickok.

Originate
O•rig´i•nate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Originated p. pr. & vb. n. Originating.] [From Origin.] To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
"A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order." Burke.

Originate
O•rig´i•nate, v. i. To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as the scheme originated with the governor and council.

Origination
O•rig•i•na´tion, n. [L. originatio.]
1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill.
"What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination." Hickok.
2. Mode of production, or bringing into being.
"This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars." Ray.

Originative
O•rig´i•na•tive, a. Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. H. Bushnell. — O•rig´i•na•tive•ly, adv.

Originator
O•rig´i•na•tor, n. One who originates.

Orillon
O•ril´lon, n. [F., lit., a little ear, from oreille an ear, fr. L. oricula, auricula, dim. of auris an ear. See Ear.] (Fort.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, — found in old fortresses.

Oriskany
O•ris´ka•ny, a. [From Oriskany, in New York.] (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.

Orismology
O•ris•mol´o•gy, n. [Gr. a marking out by boundaries, the definition of a word + -logy. See Horizon.] That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.

Ork, n. (Zoöl.) See Orc.

Orle, n. [F. orle an orle, a fillet, fr. LL. orla border, dim. of L. ora border, margin.]
1. (Her.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
2. (Her.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest. In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; — said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.

Orleans
Or´le•ans, n. [So called from the city of Orleans, in France.]
1. A cloth made of worsted and cotton, — used for wearing apparel.
2. A variety of the plum. See under Plum. [Eng.]

Orlop
Or´lop, n. [D. overloop the upper deck, lit., a running over or overflowing, fr. overloopen to run over. See Over, and Leap, and cf. Overloop.] (Naut.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled.

Ormolu
Or•mo•lu´, n. [F. or moulu; or gold (L. aurum) + moulu, p. p. of moudre to grind, to mill, L. molere. See Aureate, and Mill.] A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold. Ormolu varnish, a varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appearance of gold.

Ornament
Or´na•ment, n. [OE. ornement, F. ornement, fr. L. ornamentum, fr. ornare to adorn.] That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
"The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit." 1 Pet. iii. 4.
"Like that long-buried body of the king Found lying with his urns and ornaments." Tennyson.

Ornament
Or´na•ment, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ornamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Ornamenting.] To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as to ornament a room, or a city.
Syn. — See Adorn.

Ornamentally
Or•na•men´tal•ly, adv. By way of ornament.

Ornamentation
Or•na•men•ta´tion, n.
1. The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
2. That which ornaments; ornament. C. Kingsley.

Ornamenter
Or´na•ment•er, n. One who ornaments; a decorator.

Ornate
Or•nate´, a. [L. ornatus, p. p. of ornare to adorn.]
1. Adorned; decorated; beautiful. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." Milton.
2. Finely finished, as a style of composition.
"A graceful and ornate rhetoric." Milton.

Ornate
Or•nate´, v. t. To adorn; to honor. [R.]
"They may ornate and sanctify the name of God." Latimer.

Ornately
Or•nate´ly, adv. In an ornate manner. Sir T. More.

Ornateness
Or•nate´ness, n. The quality of being ornate.

Ornature
Or´na•ture, n. [L. ornatura.] Decoration; ornamentation. [R.] Holinshed.

Ornithic
Or•nith´ic, a. [Gr.,, a bird.] Of or pertaining to birds; as ornithic fossils. Owen.

Ornithichnite
Or•nith•ich´nite, n. [ Ornitho- + Gr. track.] (Paleon.) The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone. Hitchcock.

Ornithichnology
Or•nith•ich•nol´o•gy, n. [ Ornitho- + ichnology.] (Paleon.) The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. Hitchcock.

Ornitho-. [Cf. Ern.] A combining form fr. Gr.,, a bird.

Ornitholite
Or•nith´o•lite, n. [ Ornitho- + -lite.] (Paleon.) (a) The fossil remains of a bird. (b) A stone of various colors bearing the figures of birds. { Or•ni•tho•log´ic, Or•ni•tho•log´ic•al, } a. [Cf. F. ornithologique.] Of or pertaining to ornithology.

Ornithologist
Or•ni•thol´o•gist, n. [Cf. F. ornithologiste.] One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.

Ornithology
Or•ni•thol´o•gy, n. [ Ornitho- + -logy: cf. F. ornithologie.]
1. That branch of zoölogy which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.
2. A treatise or book on this science.

Ornithomancy
Or•nith´o•man•cy, n. [Gr. ;,, a bird + divination: cf. F. ornithomancie.] Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
"Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science." De Quincey.

Ornithon
Or•ni´thon, n. [L., fr. Gr., fr.,, a bird.] An aviary; a poultry house. Weale.

Ornithopappi
Or•ni•tho•pap´pi, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. a bird + an ancestor.] (Zoöl.) An extinct order of birds. It includes only the Archaeopteryx.

Ornithopoda
Or•ni•thop´o•da, n. pl. [NL. See Ornitho-, and -poda.] (Paleon.) An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

Ornithoscopy
Or•ni•thos´co•py, n. [ Ornitho- + -scopy: cf. Gr. divination from birds.] Observation of birds and their habits. [R.] De Quincey.

Ornithotomical
Or•ni•tho•tom´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to ornithotomy.

Ornithotomist
Or•ni•thot´o•mist, n. One who is skilled in ornithotomy.

Ornithotomy
Or•ni•thot´o•my, n. [Gr.,, a bird + to cut.] The anatomy or dissection of birds. { Or•o•graph´ic, Or•o•graph´ic•al } a. Of or pertaining to orography.

Orograph
Or´o•graph, n. [Gr. mountain + -graph.] (Surveying) A machine for use in making topographical maps. It is operated by being pushed across country, and not only records distances, like the perambulator, but also elevations.

Orography
O•rog´ra•phy, n. [Gr. ’o•ros, a mountain + -graphy.] That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as the orography of Western Europe.

Oroheliograph
Or•o•he´li•o•graph, n. [Gr. mountain + helio- + -graph.] (Photog.) A camera for obtaining a circular panoramic view of the horizon. The photographic plate is placed horizontally with a vertical lens above. A mirror of peculiar shape reflects light from the entire horizon to the lens, by means of which it is focused upon the plate.

Orohippus
Or•o•hip´pus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ’o•ros, mountain (referring to the Rocky Mountain region) + "i•ppos horse.] (Paleon.) A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.

Oroide
O´roide, n. [F. or gold (L. aurum) + Gr. form.] An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy. [Written also oreide.]

Orological
Or•o•log´ic•al, a. [Cf. F. orologique.] Of or pertaining to orology.

Orologist
O•rol´o•gist, n. One versed in orology.

Orology
O•rol´o•gy, n. [Gr. mountain + -logy: cf. F. orologie.] The science or description of mountains.

Orometer
O•rom´e•ter, n. [Gr. mountain + -meter.] (Meteor.) An aneroid barometer having a second scale that gives the approximate elevation above sea level of the place where the observation is made.

Orotund
O´ro•tund, a. [L. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus round, smooth.] Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; — said of the voice or manner of utterance. — n. The orotund voice or utterance Rush.

Orotundity
O•ro•tun´di•ty, n. The orotund mode of intonation.

Orphaline
Or´pha•line, n. See Orpheline. [Obs.]

Orphancy
Or´phan•cy, n. Orphanhood. Sir P. Sidney.

Orphanet
Or´phan•et, n. A little orphan. Drayton.

Orphanhood
Or´phan•hood, n. The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.

Orphanism
Or´phan•ism, n. Orphanhood. [R.]

Orphanotrophism
Or•phan•ot´ro•phism, n. The care and support of orphans. [R.] Cotton Mather (1711).

Orphanotrophy
Or•phan•ot´ro•phy, n. [L. orphanotrophium, Gr. ; an orphan + to feed, bring up.]
1. A hospital for orphans. [R.] A. Chalmers.
2. The act of supporting orphans. [R.]

Orpharion
Or•pha´ri•on, n. (Mus.) An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind. [Spelt also orpheoreon.]

Orphean
Or•phe´an, a. [L. Orph us, Gr. .] Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as Orphean strains. Cowper.

Orpheline
Or´phe•line, n. [F. orphelin. See Orphan.] An orphan. [Obs.] Udcll.

Orphic
Or´phic, a. [L. Orphicus, Gr. .] Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as Orphic hymns.

Orphrey
Or´phrey, n. [See Orfrays.] A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics. Pugin.

Orris
Or´ris, n. [Prob. corrupted from It. ireos iris. See Iris.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Iris ( I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de- luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. Orris pea (Med.), an issue pea made from orris root. — Orris root, the fragrant rootstock of the orris.

Orris
Or´ris, n.
1. [Contr. from orfrays, or from arras.] A sort of gold or silver lace. Johnson.
2. A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them. { Orse´dew, Or´se•due } n. Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.

Ort, n. ; pl. Orts (#). [Akin to LG. ort, ortels, remnants of food, refuse, OFries. ort, OD. oorete, ooraete; prob. from the same prefix as in E. ordeal + a word akin to eat.] A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; — commonly used in the plural. Milton.
"Let him have time a beggar’s orts to crave." Shak.

Ortalidian
Or•ta•lid´i•an, n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.

Orthid
Or´thid, n. (Zoöl.) A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.

Orthis
Or´this (ôr"this), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ’orqo•s straight.] (Zoöl.) An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.

Orthite
Or´thite, n. [Gr. straight.] (Min.) A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.

Ortho-
Or´tho- [Gr. straight; akin to Skr. rdhva upright, vrdh to grow, to cause to grow.]
1. A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.
2. (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively), designating: (a) (Inorganic Chem.) The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal. (b) (Organic Chem.) Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; — contrasted with meta- or para-; as the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as an ortho compound. In the graphic representation of the benzene nucleus (see Benzene nucleus, under Benzene), provisionally adopted, any substance exhibiting double substitution in adjacent and contiguous carbon atoms, as 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 4 & 5, etc., is designated by ortho-; as orthoxylene; any substance exhibiting substitution of two carbon atoms with one intervening, as 1 & 3, 2 & 4, 3 & 5, 4 & 6, etc., by meta-; as resorcin or metaxylene; any substance exhibiting substitution in opposite parts, as 1 & 4, 2 & 5, 3 & 6, by para-; as hydroquinone or paraxylene.

Orthocenter
Or•tho•cen´ter, n. [ Ortho- + center.] (Geom.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.

Orthoceras
Or•thoc´e•ras, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ’orqo•s straight + a horn.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.

Orthoceratite
Or•tho•cer´a•tite, n. [ Ortho- + Gr.,, a horn.] (Zoöl.) An orthoceras; also any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.

Orthoclase
Or´tho•clase, n. [ Ortho- + Gr. to break.] (Min.) Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. See Feldspar.

Orthodiagonal
Or•tho•di•ag´o•nal, n. [ Ortho- + diagonal.] (Crystallog.) The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

Orthodome
Or´tho•dome, n. [ Ortho- + dome.] (Crystallog.) See the Note under Dome, 4.

Orthodoxality
Or•tho•dox•al´i•ty, n. Orthodoxness. [R.]

Orthodoxally
Or´tho•dox•al•ly, adv. Orthodoxly. [R.] Milton

Orthodoxastical
Or•tho•dox•as´tic•al, a. Orthodox. [Obs.]

Orthodoxical
Or•tho•dox´ic•al, a. Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox.

Orthodoxly
Or´tho•dox•ly, adv. In an orthodox manner; with soundness of faith. Sir W. Hamilton.

Orthodoxness
Or´tho•dox•ness, n. The quality or state of being orthodox; orthodoxy. Waterland.

Orthodoxy
Or´tho•dox•y, n. [Gr. : cf. F. orthodoxie. See Orthodox.]
1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; — opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
"Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory’s orthodoxy." Waterland.
2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; — said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as the orthodoxy of a creed.
3. By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.

Orthodromics
Or•tho•drom´ics, n. The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.

Orthodromy
Or´tho•drom•y, n. [Cf. F. orthodromie.] The act or art of sailing on a great circle. { Or•tho•ëp"ic, Or•tho•ëp"ic•al } a. Of or pertaining to orthoëpy, or correct pronunciation. — Or•tho•ëp"ic•al•ly, adv.

Orthoëpist
Or"tho•ë•pist, n. One who is skilled in orthoëpy.

Orthoëpy
Or"tho•ë•py, n. [Gr. ; ’orqo•s right + a word: cf. F. orthoepie. See Ortho-, and Epic.] The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also mode of pronunciation.

Orthognathic
Or•thog•nath´ic, a. Orthognathous.

Orthognathism
Or•thog´na•thism, n. (Anat.) The quality or state of being orthognathous. Huxley.

Orthognathous
Or•thog´na•thous, a. [ Ortho- + Gr. the jaw.] (Anat.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; — opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

Orthogonal
Or•thog´o•nal, a. [Cf. F. orthogonal.] Right-angled; rectangular; as an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection. See under Orthographic.

Orthograph
Or´tho•graph, n. [ Ortho- + -graph.] (Arch.) An orthographic projection, sometimes partly in section, esp. of a building.

Orthographer
Or•thog´ra•pher, n. One versed in orthography; one who spells words correctly. { Or•tho•graph´ic, Or•tho•graph´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. orthographique, L. orthographus, Gr. .]
1. Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also correct in spelling; as orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.
2. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to right lines or angles. Orthographic or Orthogonal, projection, that projection which is made by drawing lines, from every point to be projected, perpendicular to the plane of projection. Such a projection of the sphere represents its circles as seen in perspective by an eye supposed to be placed at an infinite distance, the plane of projection passing through the center of the sphere perpendicularly to the line of sight.

Orthographically
Or•tho•graph´ic•al•ly, adv. In an orthographical manner: (a) according to the rules of proper spelling; (b) according to orthographic projection.

Orthographist
Or•thog´ra•phist, n. One who spells words correctly; an orthographer.

Orthographize
Or•thog´ra•phize, v. t. To spell correctly or according to usage; to correct in regard to spelling.
"In the coalesced into ith, which modern reaction has orthographized to i’ th’." Earle.

Orthography
Or•thog´ra•phy, n. [OE. ortographie, OF. orthographie, L. orthographia, Gr., fr. writing correctly; ’orqo•s right + gra•fein to write. See Ortho-, and Graphic.]
1. The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also mode of spelling; as his orthography is vicious.
"When spelling no longer follows the pronunciation, but is hardened into orthography." Earle.
2. The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.
3. A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.

Orthometric
Or•tho•met´ric, a. [See Orthometry.] (Crystallog.) Having the axes at right angles to one another; — said of crystals or crystalline forms.

Orthomorphic
Or•tho•mor´phic, a. [ Ortho- + morphic.] (Geom.) Having the right form. Orthomorphic projection, a projection in which the angles in the figure to be projected are equal to the corresponding angles in the projected figure. { Or•tho•ped´ic, Or•tho•ped´ic•al } a. (Med.) Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

Orthopedist
Or•thop´e•dist, n. (Med.) One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.

Orthopedy
Or•thop´e•dy, n. [ Ortho- + Gr.,, a child.] (Med.) The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.

Orthophony
Or•thoph´o•ny, n. [ Ortho- + Gr. voice.] The art of correct articulation; voice training.

Orthopinacoid
Or•tho•pin´a•coid, n. [ Ortho- + pinacoid.] (Crystallog.) A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes. { Or•thop•nœ"a, Or•thop´ny } n. [L. orthopnoea, Gr. ; ’orqo•sstraight, right + pnei^n to breathe: cf. F. orthopnee.] (Med.) Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.

Orthopoda
Or•thop´o•da, n. pl. [NL. See Ortho-, and -poda.] (Zoöl.) An extinct order of reptiles which stood erect on the hind legs, and resembled birds in the structure of the feet, pelvis, and other parts.

Orthoptera
Or•thop´te•ra, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ’orqo•s straight + feather, wing.] (Zoöl.) An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches, etc. See Illust. under Insect. The anterior wings are usually thickened and protect the posterior wings, which are larger and fold longitudinally like a fan. The Orthoptera undergo no metamorphosis.

Orthopterous
Or•thop´ter•ous, a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Orthoptera.

Orthorhombic
Or•tho•rhom´bic, a. [ Ortho- + rhombic.] (Crystallog.) Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.

Orthoscopic
Or•tho•scop´ic, a. (Opt.) Giving an image in correct or normal proportions; giving a flat field of view; as an orthoscopic eyepiece.

Orthosilicic
Or•tho•si•lic´ic, a. [ Ortho- + silicic.] (Chem.) Designating the form of silicic acid having the normal or highest number of hydroxyl groups.

Orthospermous
Or•tho•sper´mous, a. [ Ortho- + Gr. seed.] (Bot.) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; — opposed to cœlospermous. Darwin.

Orthostade
Or´tho•stade, n. [Gr. ; ’orqo•s straight + to place.] (Anc. Costume) A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds.

Orthostichy
Or•thos´ti•chy, n. ; pl. Orthostichies (#). [ Ortho- + Gr. row.] (Bot.) A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.

Orthotomic
Or•tho•tom´ic, a. [ Ortho- + Gr. to cleave.] (Geom.) Cutting at right angles. Orthotomic circle (Geom.), that circle which cuts three given circles at right angles.

Orthotomous
Or•thot´o•mous, a. (Crystallog.) Having two cleavages at right angles with one another.

Orthotomy
Or•thot´o•my, n. (Geom.) The property of cutting at right angles.

Orthotone
Or´tho•tone, a. [ Ortho- + Gr. tone, accent.] (Gr. Gram.) Retaining the accent; not enclitic; — said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic. { Or•thot´ro•pal, Or•thot´ro•pous } a. [ Ortho- + Gr. to turn: cf. F. orthotrope.] (Bot.) Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous. This word has also been used (but improperly) to describe any embryo whose radicle points towards, or is next to, the hilum.

Orthotropic
Or•tho•trop´ic, a. [See Orthotropal.] (Bot.) Having the longer axis vertical; — said of erect stems. Encyc. Brit.

Ortive
Or´tive, a. [L. ortivus, fr. oriri, ortus, to rise: cf. F. ortive.] Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as the ortive amplitude of a planet.

Ortolan
Or´to•lan, n. [F., fr. It. ortolano ortolan, gardener, fr. L. hortulanus gardener, fr. hortulus, dim. of hortus garden. So called because it frequents the hedges of gardens. See Yard an inclosure, and cf. Hortulan.] (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) In England, the wheatear ( Saxicola œnanthe). (c) In America, the sora, or Carolina rail ( Porzana Carolina). See Sora.

Orvet
Or•vet´, n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The blindworm.

Orvietan
Or•vi•e´tan, n. [F. orvietan: cf. It. orvietano. So called because invented at Orvieto, in Italy.] A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue. [Obs.]

Oryctere
Or´yc•tere, n. [Gr. digger: cf. F. oryctère.] (Zoöl.) The aard- vark.

Orycterope
O•ryc´ter•ope, n. [Gr. digger + foot.] (Zoöl.) Same as Oryctere.

Oryctography
Or•yc•tog´ra•phy, n. [Gr. dug + -graphy.] Description of fossils. [Obs.]

Oryctological
Or•yc•to•log´ic•al, a. [Cf. F. oryctologique.] Of or pertaining to oryctology. [Obs.]

Oryctologist
Or•yc•tol´o•gist, n. One versed in oryctology. [Obs.]

Oryctology
Or•yc•tol´o•gy, n. [Gr. dug + -logy: cf. F. oryctologie.]
1. An old name for paleontology.
2. An old name for mineralogy and geology.

Oryx
O´ryx, n. [NL., from Gr. a kind of gazelle or antelope.] (Zoöl.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope ( O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope ( O. beatrix) of Arabia.

Oryza
O•ry´za, n. [L., rice, Gr. See Rice.] (Bot.) A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice.