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.

To give obedience.

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.

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.

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.

To attach, as by a bond.

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

Obligation.

One who, or that which, obliges.

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

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

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

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

Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.

Quality or state of being oblique.

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.

Indistinct; slurred over.

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

destroyed so thoroughly as to be unrecognizable or imperceptible.

making undecipherable or imperceptible; as, obliterating mists.

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

Tending or serving to obliterate.

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

total forgetfulness.

A disputer; a gainsayer.

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

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

The medulla oblongata.

Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.

Somewhat oblong.

In an oblong form.

State or quality of being oblong.

A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

Containing obloquy; reproachful

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

A struggle against; resistance; opposition.

A becoming dumb; loss of speech.

Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.

To cloud; to obscure.

One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.

A performer on the oboe.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished.

A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.

See Obelize.

A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value. An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.

Obversely omegoid.

Obovate.