Having feet adapted for swimming.

Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.

The ribbon fish.

Any crustacean of the genus Remipes.

Without oars.

The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests, and that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. Certain oarlocks are designed for use with oars having attached swivels, which insert into the oarlock and provide a firm pivot. Same as Rowlock{1}.

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

skill as an oarsman.

Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.

a woman oarsman.

Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan's oary feet.

The Organization of American States an international association of countries in the Western hemisphere. It was created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation.

A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert, where the water table approaches the surface.

A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.

A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain, used as food and fodder; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

A cake made of oatmeal.

Consisting of an oat straw or stem; as, an oaten pipe.

A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.

Capable of having an oath administered to.

The violation of an oath; perjury.

Meal made of oats.

Compressed or flattened antero-posteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one.

Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.

Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate; as, an obcordate petal or leaf.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers.

The condition of being obdiplostemonous.

Sleep.

To draw over, as a covering.

To draw over; to cover.

The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.

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

To harden.

A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.

To harden.

Obdurate; hard.

Hardness.

See Obi.

Same as Obi. Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.

A large Western African tree (Triplochiton scleroxcylon) having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; it yields soft white to pale yellow wood.

Obedient.

The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.

One yielding obedience.

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

According to the rule of obedience.

In an obedient manner; with obedience.

Obedience.

See Obeisance.

Ready to obey; reverent; deferential; also, servilely submissive.

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

Formed like an obelisk.

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.

To mark or designate with an obelisk.

To designate with an obelus; to mark as doubtful or spirituous.

A mark [thus /, or /]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.

To ride about.

The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.

A wandering about.

Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

Quality of being obese; obesity.

The state or quality of being obese; excessive body weight; incumbrance of flesh.

One who yields obedience.

Obediently; submissively.

To make firm; to harden in resolution.

Hardness of heart; obduracy.

To darken; to obscure; to becloud.

The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.

A sash, esp. the long belt-like broad sash of soft material worn by women aound the waist when wearing a traditional kimono, and usually having a large bow at the back.

Belief in, or the practice of, the obi superstitions and rites.

Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.

Death; decease; the date of one's death.

In passing; incidentally; by the way.

An incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2 (a).

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

In the manner of an obituary.

Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.

That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person.

Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.

A computer program which has been translated into machine language by a compiler and assembler, but not yet linked into an executable program; sometimes called an obj file, because its file name typically has the extension /obj/ .

Using data structures called objects, which encapsulate data and typically are accessed by passing messages, which in turn may trigger internal procedures within the object which are invisible outside the object.

Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection.

representing as an object.

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to represent or consider as an object; to render objective.

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.

One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy.

To objectify.

Converting into an object.

The objective case.

An object glass. See under Object, n.

In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate idea objectively in the mind.

Objectivity.

The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.

To make an object of; to regard as an object; to place in the position of an object.

Having no object; purposeless.

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

See Chippeways.

One who makes objection; an objector.

A binding by oath.

To chide; to reprove.

The act of objurgating; reproof.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory.

Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates. One of the Oblati.

The quality or state of being oblate.

Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state. A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery.

The act of offering, or of making an offering.

One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence.

To bark or snarl, as a dog.

The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.

An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

To delight; to please greatly.

The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight.

Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.

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

under a moral obligation to someone.

The act of obligating.

relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation; as, obligational authority.

See Obbligato.

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

The quality or state of being obligatory.