An inspection or overlooking.

To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.

To walk over or upon.

To defeat.

Too wary; too cautious.

To overflow.

Wasted or worn out; consumed; spent

To watch too much.

To wax or grow too rapidly or too much.

Too weak; too feeble.

Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor clothing, as overcoats, wraps, etc.

To weary too much; to tire out.

Excessively weary; very tired; exhausted.

To expose too long to the influence of the weather.

To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to be egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume.

One who overweens.

Conceit; arrogance.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down.

Overweighing; excessive.

To overflow.

Excessive wetness.

The act of overwhelming.

same as overpowered.

Overpowering; irresistible.

To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

To outflank.

Too wise; affectedly wise.

To outwit.

To say in too many words; to express verbosely.

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

Worn out or subdued by toil; worn out so as to be trite.

To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

To subdue by wrestling.

Wrought upon excessively; overworked.

Excess of zeal.

Too zealous.

The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.

One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undergo the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

Of or pertaining to an egg.

The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

Bearing eggs; oviferous.

See Ovine.

Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.

An artificial division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -- opposed to Vivipara.

Generation by means of ova. See Generation.

Producing young from eggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.

To deposit or lay (an egg).

The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.

The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova. The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.

The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoon; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.

A believer in ovism. Same as Ovulist.

A germinal vesicle.

An uncommon name for riboflavin, also called vitamin B2.

A solid resembling an egg in shape.

A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.

That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

Yolk; egg yolk.

An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.

Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.

Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

Pertaining to ovules.

Containing an ovule or ovules.

To produce ova and discharge them from an ovary or ovarian follicle.

The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the human female the discharge occurs about halfway between menstruation times.

The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen. An ovum.

Producing ovules.

A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

A fossil egg.

An ovule.

A more or less spherical and transparent cell, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

See Ouch.

To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own.

Equal.

Equality; -- sometimes written ovelty and ovealty.

Own.

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

Anywhere.

Had or held under obligation of paying; due.

To pry about; to prowl.

Having eyes like an owl's.

One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.

An abode or a haunt of owls.

A small owl; especially, the European species (Athene noctua), and the California flammulated owlet (Megascops flammeolus).

The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing.

Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

Affected wisdom; pompous dullness.

Glimmering or imperfect light.

To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

having an owner; often used in combination; as, state-owned railways. Opposite of unowned.

One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.

a motorist who owns the vehicle that he/she drives.

lived in by the owner; -- of dwellings.

a occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in.

Without an owner.

The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

The aurochs.

Tanner's ooze. See Ooze, 3.

The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female.

A widespread European weed (Picris echioides formerly Helminthia echioides) with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. The name is applied to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs. It has been naturalized in the U. S.

See Oxyacid.

a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid.

A dicarboxylic acid (HO.CO.CO.CH2.CO.OH).

A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C6H4N4O5) obtained by the reduction of parabanic acid; -- called also leucoturic acid.

A salt of oxalic acid.

Same as Glyoxal.

A poisonous nitrogenous base (C6H10N2) obtained indirectly from oxamide as a thick transparent oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.

Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.

See Glyoxaline.

A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.

A yellow mineral consisting of oxalate of iron.

Same as Oxalan.

A salt of oxaluric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.