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.

To turn toward.

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.

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.

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

A description of the ocean.

That branch of science which relates to the ocean.

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

Of or pertaining to ocelli.

Same as Ocellated.

Resembling an eye.

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

Resembling the 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.

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.

Ocherous.

See Occamy.

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

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

Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic.

A natural family of mammals including pikas and extinct forms.

Ocherous.

See 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.

A greave or legging.

Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted.

See Ocherous.

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

See Ochery.

Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow.

See Ochery.

See Occamy.

See Okra.

See Ochrea.

Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.

An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.

An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.

See Octahedral.

A fast of eight days before a great festival.

A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.

Having eight sides and eight angles.

Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.

Having eight faces or sides; of, pertaining to, or formed in, octahedrons; as, octahedral cleavage; an octahedral crystal.

Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.

A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.

A molecule composed of eight monomer units bound to each other, usually in a linear array; as, an octamer formed from eight nucleotides is called an octanucleotide.

Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.

A verse containing eight feet; as, --/ / Deep/ in|to/ the | dark/ness | peer/ing, | long/ I | stood/ there | wond'/ring, | fear/ing.

One of the Octandria.

A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

Of or pertaining to the Octandria; having eight distinct stamens.

Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarbons (C8H18) of the methane (paraffin) series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of gasoline or ligroin.

Having eight angles; eight-angled.

The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.

A molecule composed of eight nucleotide units bound to each other by phosphodiester bonds in a linear array; as, a partial digest of DNA or RNA may include octanucleotides. See octamer.

A molecule composed of eight amino acid units bound to each other by peptide bonds, usually in a linear array. See octamer.

A portion of the Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.