Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
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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.
Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.
Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth.
To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one.
A rent. A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chastity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture.
One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom.
The system or the principles of the obscurants.
Same as Obscurant.
The act or operation of obscuring; the state of being obscured; as, the obscuration of the moon in an eclipse.
Obscurity.
In an obscure manner.
The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration.
Obscurity.
One who, or that which, obscures.
The quality or state of being obscure.
To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.
The act of obsecrating or imploring; as, the obsecrations of the Litany, being those clauses beginning with /By./
Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory.
Obedient; submissive; obsequious.
Obsequiousness.
See Obsequy.
Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly.
The quality or state of being obsequious.
The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.
Capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable.
The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.
Observance.
A thing to be observed.
One who observes forms and rules.
One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
In an observant manner.
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Of or pertaining to observation; consisting of, or containing, observations.
Observing; watchful.
One who observes or takes notice.
A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.
To take notice; to give attention to what one sees or hears; to attend.
perceived with the eyes and sometimes with other senses; as, no explanation for the observed phenomena.
One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.
The office or work of an observer.
Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; observant{1}; as, an observing person; an observing mind.
To be excessively or persistently preoccupied with something; -- usually used with on or over; as, to obsess over an imagined insult.
having or showing excessive or compulsive concern; -- used with with.
The act of besieging.
Persistently and abnormally preoccupied with some unreasonable idea.
A kind of glass produced by volcanoes. It is usually of a black color, and opaque, except in thin splinters.
Of or pertaining to a siege.
A sealing up.
To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp.
To seal; to ratify.
The act of sealing or ratifying; the state of being sealed or confirmed; confirmation, as by the Holy Spirit.
Ratifying; confirming by sealing.
To become obsolescent.
The state of becoming obsolete.
Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.
To become obsolete; to go out of use.
In an obsolete manner.
The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
Opposition; impediment; obstruction.
Of or pertaining to childbirth, midwifery, or the period around the time of the birth of children; as, the obstetric art.
To assist as a midwife.
The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery.
One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur; especially, a physician who specializes in obstetrics.
Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance.
The science of midwifery.
Obstetrics.
A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
Obstinacy; stubbornness.
The act of stopping up, as a passage.
Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond.
To constrain; to put under obligation.
One who obstructs or hinders.
The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
The act or the policy of obstructing progress.
One who deliberately hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. Of or pertaining to obstructionists; causing obstruction; as, obstructionist tactics.
An obstructive person or thing.
Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.
See Stupefaction.
Stupefactive.
See Stupefy.
To gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.
Capable of being obtained.
One who obtains.
The act or process of obtaining; attainment.
Covered; protected.
To obey (a judgment or decree).
To obey.
To oppose; to hold out in opposition.
The act of darkening; the state of being darkened; darkness.
The act of obtending.
To protest.
The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation.
Slander; detraction; calumny.
To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude.
One who obtrudes.
To deprive of a limb; to lop.
The act of lopping or cutting off.
The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
One who practices or excuses obtrusion.
Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.
To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.
A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent.
That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.
To stop or close, as an opening; to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing.
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