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.

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 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.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, oenanthyl; specifically, designating an acid formerly supposed to be identical with the acid in oenanthic ether, but now known to be identical with heptanoic acid.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid formerly supposed to be the acid of oenanthylic ether, but now known to be a mixture of higher acids, especially capric acid.

The coloring matter of red wines.

Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

Delirium tremens. Dipsomania.

Wine mixed with honey; mead.

See Alcoholometer.

A lover of wine.

Pertaining to an acid now called sulphovinic acid or ethyl sulphuric acid.

The C. G. S. unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance, equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air (or vacuum) between parallel faces. Also, a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux.

Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.

Of or pertaining to the gadflies. A gadfly.

Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

The state of being under oestrual influence, or of having sexual desire.

A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as:

The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.

No longer considered responsible; as, Jack admitted breaking the vase, so Jill is off the hook. Used in various situations, with reference to responsibility to perform an action, or guilt for some misdeed.

discontinuous; not continuous. Opposite of continuous.

located outside a military base; as, off-base housing.

A group of low-budget theaters located outside the Broadway area in Manhattan.

situated away from the center or axis.

humorously vulgar; mildly obscene; risque; as, an off-color joke.

A day when things go poorly; as, I guess this is one of my off-days.

not performing or available for duties at the given moment; as, an off-duty policeman. Oposite of on-duty, working, and on-the-job.

not watching for possible danger; not alert; as, caught in an off-guard moment.

Deviating from the proper pitch; -- of a musical note or series of notes; as, an off-key note; to sing off-key.

a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere.

barred to a designated group; as, the topless bar is off-lints to military personnel.

Not connected; -- of computers or computer peripherals normally connected or intended to be connected to other computers by a communications line; as, we can't print the document because the printer is off-line.

Having less than maximal use or demand or activity; -- of a period of time occurring as a defined part of a time cycle; as, off-peak telepone rates are available at night and on weekends; off-peak fares.

hard to deal with.

designed for or used for or taking place on trails and beaches etc., instead of public roads; as, off-road vehicles; off-road sports such as snowmobiling.

a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country; amountain bike.

of or relating to a season of less than maximum demand; as, off-season hotel rates are lower.

Taking place or located away from the specified site; as, an off-site waste treatment operation. Opposite to on-site.

Not performed on the streets; as, off-street parking; off-street unloading of vehicles. Opposite of on-street.

with little or no preparation or forethought; unrehearsed; extemporaneous; offhand.

Intended to be worn without alterations; ready-to-wear; -- of clothing. Contrasted with made-to-order, custom-made.

Made in large quantities and intended to be used without modifications; -- similar to off-the-rack, but not restricted to clothing. Opposite of custom-made, made-to-order, or one-of-a-kind.

a grayish white.

The rejected or waste parts of any process, especially the inedible parts of a butchered animal, such as the viscera.

That which is cut off.

See Offense.

The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.

incapable of offending or attacking; harmless.