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Obtrude

To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude.

Obtrusion

The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.

Obtrusive

Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.

Obtund

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.

Obtundent

A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent.

Obtunder

That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.

Obturate

To stop or close, as an opening; to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing.

Obturation

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

Obturator

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

Obtuse

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

Obtusion

The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.

Obumbrant

Overhanging; as, obumbrant feathers.

Obuncous

Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.

Obvention

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

Obverse

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

Obversion

The act of turning toward or downward.

Obviation

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

Obvoluted Obvolute

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.

Oca

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

Ocarina

A kind of small simple wind instrument.

Occamy

An alloy imitating gold or silver.

Occasion

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

Occasional

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

Occasionalism

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.

Occasionality

Quality or state of being occasional; occasional occurrence.

Occasionally

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

Occasioner

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

Occasive

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

Occecation

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

Occident

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.

Occidental

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

Occidentals

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals.

Occipitoaxial

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

Occiput

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

Occludent

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

Occlusion

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

Occult

To eclipse; to hide from sight.

Occultation

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.

Occultism

A certain Oriental system of theosophy.

Occupancy

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

Occupant

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.

Occupation

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.

occupational

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

occupied

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.

Occupier

One who occupies, or has possession.

Occupy

To hold possession; to be an occupant.

Occurrence

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

Ocean

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

oceangoing

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

Oceania

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

Oceanic

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

Oceanid

A daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.

oceanographer

A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas.

Oceanology

That branch of science which relates to the ocean.

Oceanus

The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.

Ocellus

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates. An eyelike spot of color, as those on the tail of the peacock.

Ocelot

An American feline carnivore (Felis pardalis). It ranges from the Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

ocher mutation

A mutation in which the base sequence of one of the codons in the messenger RNA has been converted to UAA. Such a mutation may be conditionally suppressed, as can an amber mutation, by the presence of a special transfer RNA.

Ochlesis

A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof.

Ochlocracy

A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy; mob rule.

Ochotonidae

A natural family of mammals including pikas and extinct forms.

Ochre Ocher

A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors. A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.

Ochreous Ocherous

Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.

Ochroleucous

Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow.

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