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Obduce

To draw over, as a covering.

Obduction

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

Obduracy

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

Obduration

A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.

Obeah

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

obechi

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.

Obedience

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

Obedient

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

Obeisant

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

Obelion

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

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.

Obelisk

To mark or designate with an obelisk.

Obelize

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

Obelus

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

Oberon

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

Obese

Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.

obesity

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

Obey

To give obedience.

Obeyer

One who yields obedience.

Obfuscation

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

Obi

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.

Obiism

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

Obimbricate

Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.

Obit

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

Obiter

In passing; incidentally; by the way.

obiter dictum

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

Obitual

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

Obituary

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

obituary

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

Object

Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.

object program object file

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/ .

object-oriented

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.

Objectable

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

Objectify

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.

Objection

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

Objectionable

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

Objectist

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

Objectively

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.

Objectize

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

Objector

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

Objicient

One who makes objection; an objector.

Objurgatory

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

Oblanceolate

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

Oblate

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.

Oblati

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.

Oblation

The act of offering, or of making an offering.

Oblationer

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

Oblatration

The act of oblatrating; a barking or snarling.

Oblatum

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

Oblectation

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

Obligable

Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy.

Obligate

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

obligated

under a moral obligation to someone.

obligational

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

Obligatorily

In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.

Obligatory

Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.

Oblige

To attach, as by a bond.

obligee

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

obliger

One who, or that which, obliges.

obliging

Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind.

Obligor

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

Obliquation

The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes.

Oblique

To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.

Obliquely

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.

Obliquity

The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

Oblite

Indistinct; slurred over.

Obliterate

Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

obliterated

destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible.

obliterating

making undecipherable or imperceptible; as, obliterating mists.

Obliteration

The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.

Oblivion

The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.

Oblong

A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.

Oblong-ovate

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

Oblongatal

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

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