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.

See Octoroon.

See Octostyle.

A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.

Having a valence of eight; capable of being combined with, exchanged for, or compared with, eight atoms of hydrogen; -- said of certain atoms or radicals.

Consisting of eight; eight.

Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

Same as Octylene.

Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of eight years.

A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.

Of the eighth degree or order. A quantic of the eighth degree.

Same as Octant, 2.

According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

A salt of an octoic acid; a caprylate.

The tenth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

Octocerata.

A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda.

See Octachord.

A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18/, and called eighteenmo.

Having eight teeth.

Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.

See Octahedral.

Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.

A marrying eight times.

A person eighty years, or more, of age.

Of eighty years of age.

A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.

See Octagonal.

A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.

Having eight pistils; octagynous.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, octane; -- used specifically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.

Having eight cells for seeds.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

Of or pertaining to the number eight.

Having eight eyes.

An animal having eight feet, as a spider.

Having eight petals or flower leaves.

One of the Octocerata.

Same as Octocerata. Same as Arachnida.

Same as Octocerata.

A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish.

Having eight rays.

The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.

Containing eight seeds.

In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. See Hexastyle. An octostyle portico or temple.

Consisting of or containing eight syllables.

A word of eight syllables.

A typographic symbol (#) having two vertical lines intersected by two horizontal lines. It is also called the crosshatch, hash, numeral sign and number sign; in the U. S. it is commonly called the pound sign, especially to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials, but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound sign as the symbol for the British pound. It is commonly used as a symbol for the word number; as in #36 (meaning: number thirty-six).

A hypothetical radical (C7H15.CO.), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.

A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.

See Octet.

Eightfold.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of octane, and as entering into its derivatives; as, octyl alcohol.

Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, octyl; as, octylic ether.

The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.

By the eye, or by actual sight.

Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines.

In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.

A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture.

A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.

One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.

Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit. The oculomotor nerve.

Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

An eye.

One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.

An alleged force or natural power, supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force.

Noting, or pert. to, odal land or ownership.

A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan.

A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.

Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

varied and irregularly performed; -- of paid labor; as, he found only odd-job employment.

Pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex; -- of a leaf shape.

Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre; as, an oddball request.

The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.

In an odd manner; unevenly.

An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows; Any separate small part or page in a book, other than the text, such as the title page, contents, etc.

The state of being odd, or not even.

Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. The odds are often expressed by a ratio; as, the odds are three to one that he will win, i. e. he will win three times out of four

A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

A little or short ode.

The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See Legislature.

A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

See Odeon.

Fitted to excite hatred; hateful; odious.

Of or pertaining to od. See Od.

The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as Woden, of the German tribes.

Of or pertaining to Odin.

Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism.

Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

A writer of an ode or odes.

Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence.

To charge with od. See Od.

A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.

A genus of North American deer.

A machine for registering the distance traversed by a vehicle or pedestrain.

An instrument attached to a vehicle or connected, as by a flexible cable, to the wheel of a vehicle, which measures the distance traversed.

Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.

Serving to measure distance on a road.

Measurement of distances by the odometer.

The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.

Toothache.

Of or pertaining to odontalgia. A remedy for the toothache.

Same as Odontalgia.

Cutting of the teeth; dentition.

A subdivision of Cetacea, including the sperm whale, dolphins, etc.; the toothed whales.

Generation, or mode of development, of the teeth.

An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

Of or pertaining to odontography.

A description of the teeth.

Having the form of a tooth; toothlike. Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process.

An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis.

A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.

The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.

Same as Cephalophora.

A special structure found in the mouth of most mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.

Having an odontophore.

An odontoblast.