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.

Furnished with eyes.

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 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.

An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.

A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcae, Odontotormae, and Saururae.

Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects.

An order of extinct toothed birds having the teeth in sockets, as in the genus Ichthyornis. See Ichthyornis.

Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.

A perfume; a strong scent.

Yielding odors; fragrant.

An odorous substance; a substance with a strong odor added to a dangerous substance, such as natural gas, to provide an easy detection method and a warning; as, ethyl mercaptan is used as an odorant in natural gas and propane to facilitate detection of leaks.

Odorous.

Diffusing odor or scent; fragrant.

Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes.

A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil.

Free from odor.

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.

A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.

See Od. [Archaic].

Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force.

An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.

The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world; -- now more commonly spelled ecology.

See Economical.

See Economics.

See Economy.

See Ecumenical.

A swelling from effusion of watery fluid in the cellular tissue beneath the skin or mucous membrance; dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, edema; affected with edema.

A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it.

Characterized by, or decorated with, small round points, spots, or rings; as, oeil-de-perdrix pattern.

A glance of the eye; an amorous look.

An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet.

A salt or ester of oenanthic acid; as, testosterone oenanthate is sold as an anabolic steroid; also called enanthate.

Having, or imparting, the odor characteristic of the bouquet of wine; specifically used, formerly, to designate an acid (oenanthic acid) whose ethereal salts were supposed to occasion the peculiar bouquet, or aroma, of old wine. Cf. oenanthylic.

An oily substance (C6H15.CHO) obtained by the distillation of castor oil, recognized as the aldehyde of oenanthylic acid, and hence called also oenanthaldehyde.

The ketone of oenanthic acid.

A hydrocarbon radical formerly supposed to exist in oenanthic acid, now known to be identical with heptyl.

A salt of oenanthylic acid; as, potassium oenanthylate.