A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
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Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow.
Of or pertaining to a coast.
To deliver an oration.
A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
Oratorical.
See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
Oratorical.
To play the orator.
The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
A woman who makes public addresses.
A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
To become round like an orb.
Any spider of the family Araneidae (called also Argiopidae) that spins a web with a pattern of lines spiraling outward from the center. They have eight similar eyes. The golden orb weaver, Mephila clavipes, is known for the remarkable dragline silk it produces for use as a frame for its web and as a line on which it can plummet down and nab prey. This silk has a high tensile strength and is stronger than the toughest current synthetic polymer (Kevlar).
Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.
Having the form of an orb; round.
Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular.
A small orb, or sphere.
Same as Discina.
Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.
That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline.
The state or quality of being orbiculate; orbicularness.
The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
Of or pertaining to an orbit.
Orbital.
Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
Orbital.
Orbation.
A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.
Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving.
Any of several cetaceans, especialy the grampus (Grampus griseus) of the dolphin family.
The killer whale (Orcinus orca).
Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, C7H7NO3, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
See Archil.
Same as Alkanet, 2.
A garden.
The cultivation of orchards.
One who cultivates an orchard.
Archil.
A treatise upon dancing.
See Orchestra.
Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidae. See Beach flea, under Beach.
The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians. Now commonly called orchestra pit, to distinguish it from the section of the main floor occupied by spectators.
Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.
Arranged for performance by an orchestra; -- of a musical composition.
The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
See Orchestra.
Orchestral.
A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.
Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.
An order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds, and including the families Orchidaceae and Burmanniaceae.
Orchidaceous.
Same as Orchidaceous.
One versed in orchidology.
The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
See Archil.
Inflammation of the testicles.
The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
The god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto.
An edge or point; also, a beginning.
To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
One who ordains.
Ordination.
Ordeal.
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
To give orders; to issue commands.
Capable of being ordered; tractable.
having or evincing a systematic arrangement; especially, having elements succeeding in order according to rule; as, an ordered sequence; an ordered pair. Opposite of disordered or unordered.
One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
Disposition; distribution; management.
Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
The state or quality of being orderly.
A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
Capability of being ordained or appointed.
Capable of being ordained or appointed.
A word or number denoting order or succession.
The state or quality of being ordinal.
One about to be ordained.
One who ordains.
According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe.
An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death. A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
The state of being an ordinary.
To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
In an ordinate manner; orderly.
The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
One who ordains or establishes; a director.
Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war.
The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
Of or pertaining to ordonnance.
Ordovician.
Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. The Ordovician formation.
Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury.
One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
A resident of Oregon.
See Oroide.
A confection consisting of a white cream filling sandwiched between two chocolate cookies.
A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
Of or pertaining to oreography.
The science of mountains; orography.
A genus of ferns having species, formerly included in genus Dryopteris or Thelypteris.
A genus of birds including the mountain quail of the western U. S.
A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
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