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.

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.

A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

Same as Oarweed.

Same as Oarweed.

A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.

Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.

The osprey.

See Orphrey.

See Argol.

To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.

A kind of transparent light but stiff muslin.

a specialized part of a cell performing a specific function, usually visible under the microscope as a distinct object; it is analogous to an organ{2}, but on a microscopic scale.

Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

Organic.

In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally.

The quality or state of being organic.

The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.

Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs.

Same as organize.

Organic structure; organization.

of or pertaining to organism (definition 2).

One who plays on the organ.

Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.

Organism.

Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.

Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.

Of or pertaining to organization; as, organizational structure.

To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.

Same as arranged; as, an organized tour.

Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes, such as bootlegging, conducting illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, etc.; -- a general term encompassing most forms of criminal groups, but especially those that are consolidated into /families/ more or less recognizing each other's different regions of operation; sometimes considered synonymous with the mafia or the syndicate.

One who organizes.

A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.

A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.

The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.

Of or pertaining to organogenesis.

Organogenesis.

Of or pertaining to organography.

One versed in organography.

A description of the organs of animals or plants.

Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.

Of or relating to organology.

The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.

Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements bound to organic radicals; such as, methylmercury, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.; formerly refered to as metalorganic.

The designation or nomenclature of organs.

The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly.

Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.

Phrenology.

Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.

One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense.

An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (/Novum Organon/) of part of his treatise on philosophical method.

See Origan.

A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.