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.

The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.

Conversant; familiar.

The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

In an obverse manner.

The act of turning toward or downward.

making impossible or unnecessary.

The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.

Opposing; fronting.

Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.

See Obi.

A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (Oxalis crenata, and Oxalis tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.

A kind of small simple wind instrument.

An alloy imitating gold or silver.

To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.

Capable of being occasioned or caused.

Occuring at times, but not constant, regular, or systematic; made or happening as opportunity requires or admits; casual; incidental; as, occasional remarks, or efforts.

The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.

Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.

In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.

To occasion.

One who, or that which, occasions, causes, or produces.

Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.

The act of making blind, or the state of being blind.

The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere.

Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.

Western; occidental.

The occipital bone.

Of or pertaining to the occipital bone and second vertebra, or axis.

The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.

A killing; the act of killing.

To shut up; to close.

Serving to close; shutting up. That which closes or shuts up.

Shut; closed.

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

To incrust; to harden.

To eclipse; to hide from sight.

The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

Hidden; secret.

Same as Occultation.

A certain Oriental system of theosophy.

An adherent of occultism.

In an occult manner.

State or quality of being occult.

The act of taking or holding possession, especially of real property or rental property; possession; occupation.

One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing; as, the occupant of the apartment is not at home.

To occupy.

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

Of or pertaining to an occupation{3} or occupations{3}; caused by or incidental to an occupation{3}; as, occupational hazard; occupational illness.

Engaged; in use; being used by a person and not free for use by someone else; as, the wc is occupied. Opposite of free, available, and unoccupied.

One who occupies, or has possession.

To hold possession; to be an occupant.

the act of taking occupancy.

To meet; to clash.

A coming or happening; as, the occurrence of a railway collision.

One who meets; hence, an adversary.

Same as Occursion.

A meeting; a clash; a collision.

Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.

Land bordering an ocean.

capable of crossing an ocean; used on the high seas; -- used mostly of ships; as, oceangoing vessels.

A large group of islands in the south Pacific sometimes including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean.

Same as Oceania.

A daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.