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.

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.

The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening.

Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve.

See Obstuseangular.

Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.

In an obtuse manner.

State or quality of being obtuse.

The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

Obtuseness.

Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.

To shade; to darken; to cloud.

Act of darkening or obscuring.

Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.