OLD, adjective

1. Advanced far in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather towards the end of life, or towards the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals or plants; as an old man; an old age; an old camel or horse; an old tree. This adjective is placed after the noun that designates the time lived.

Abraham was seventy five years old when he departed from Haran. Genesis 12:4.

2. Having been long made or used; decayed by time; as an old garment; an old house.

3. Being of long continuance; begun long ago; as an old acquaintance.

4. Having been long made; not new or fresh; as old wine.

5. Being of a former year's growth; not of the last crop; as old wheat; old hay.

6. Ancient; that existed in former ages; as the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.

7. Of any duration whatever; as a year old; seven years old How old art thou?

8. subsisting before something else. He built a new house on the site of the old one. The old law is repealed by the new.

9. Long practiced. he is grown old in vice. He is an old offender.

10. That has been long cultivated; as old land; an old farm; opposed to new land, land lately cleared and cultivated.

11. More than enough; great.

If a man were porter of hellgate, he should have old turning the key.

12. In vulgar language, crafty; cunning.

Of old long ago; from ancient times; as in days of old

We apply old chiefly to things subject to decay. We never say, the old sun, or an old mountain.

OLDEN, adjective Old; ancient. [Used in poetry.]

OLDNESS, noun

1. Old age; an advanced state of life or existence; as the oldness of a man, of an elephant or a tree.

2. The state of being old, or of a long continuance; as the oldness of a building or a garment.

3. Antiquity; as the oldness of monuments.

OLEAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin oleaginus, from oleum, oil.] Having the qualities of oil; oily; unctuous.

OLEAG'INOUSNESS, noun Oiliness.

OLEAN'DER, noun a plant of the genus Nerium the rose-bay or South sea rose; a beautiful shrub with flowers in clusters, of a fine purple color, but of an indifferent smell. The plant, especially the bark of the roots, is said to be poisonous.

OLEAS'TER, noun [Latin from olea, the olive tree.]

A plant of the genus Elaeagnus; the wild olive.

O'LEATE, noun A compound of oleic acid with a salifiable base.

OLEF'IANT, adjective [Latin oleo, olfacio.] olefiant gas is a compound of one prime of carbon and one of hydrogen, called by Ure carbureted hydrogen, to distinguish it from the gas resulting from one prime of carbon and two of hydrogen, which he calls subcarbureted hydrogen.

Olefiant gas, is so called from its property of forming with chlorin a compound resembling oil.

O'LEIC, adjective [from oil.] The oleic acid is obtained from a soap made by digesting hog's lard in potash lye.

OLEOSAC'CHARUM, noun A mixture of oil and sugar.

O'LEOSE,

O'LEOUS, adjective [Latin olcosus.] Oily. [Little used.]

O'LEOUS, a. [L. olcosus.] Oily. [Little used.]

OLERA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin oleracceus, from olus, oleris, pot-herbs.]

Pertaining to pot-herbs; of the nature or qualities of herbs for cookery.

OLFACT', verb transitive [Latin olfacto, olfacio; oleo, to smell, and facio, to make.]

To smell; used in burlesque, but not otherwise authorized.

OLFACT'ORY, adjective [Latin olfacio, supra.] Pertaining to smelling; having the sense of smelling; as olfactory nerves.

OL'IBAN,

OLIBA'NUM, noun [The word signifies then frankincense, and it is so named from its whiteness.]

A gum-resin consisting of tears or drops, of a yellow transparent color and disagreeable smell. It is brought from Turkey and the East Indies. It is not, as Linne supposed, produced by the Juniperus Lycia, but from a different tree growing in Arabia and Hindoostan. In Arabia, luban is applied to benzoin, which is generally used for incense, and oliban is called condur, whence Gr. In medicine, it is used in fumigations as a resolvent.

Thompson says olibanum is produced by different trees and in different countries.

OL'ID,

OL'IDOUS, adjective [Latin olidus, from oleo, to smell.] Fetid; having a strong disagreeable smell. [Little used.]

OLIGARCH'AL,

OLIGARCH'ICAL, adjective [See Oligrachy.] Pertaining to oligrachy, or government by a few.

OLIGARCH'ICAL, a. [See Oligrachy.] Pertaining to oligrachy, or government by a few.

OL'IGIST, 'IC, adjective [Gr. least.] oligist iron, so called, is a crystallized tritoxyd of iron.

OL'IGRACHY, noun [Gr. few, and rule.]

A form of government in which the supreme power is placed in a few hands; a species of aristocracy.

O'LIO, noun [Latin olla, a pot.]

1. A mixture; a medley.

2. A miscellany; a collection of various pieces; applied to musical collections.

OL'ITORY, adjective [Latin olitor, a gardener, from olus, pot-herbs.]

Belonging to a kitchen garden; as olitory seeds. It may perhaps be used as a noun.

OLIVA'CEOUS, adjective [from Latin oliva, olive.] Of the color of the olive.

OLIVAS'TER, noun [Latin oliva, olive.] Of the color of the olive, tawny.

OL'IVE, noun [Latin oliva, from olea, an olive tree; Gr. See Oil]

A plant or tree of the genus Olea. The common olive tree grows in warm climates and rises to the height of twenty or thirty feet, having an upright stem with numerous branches. This tree is much cultivated in the south of Europe for its fruit, from which is expressed the olive oil, and which is used also for pickles.

OL'IVED, adjective Decorated with olive trees.

OL'IVENITE, noun An ore of copper.

OL'IVIN,

OL'IVINE, noun [from olive.] A subspecies of prismatic chrysolite of a brownish green, often inclining to a yellowish or grayish green, usually found in roundish grains in other stones; sometimes in large masses, but not crystallized. It is a constituent of many lavas and frequently occurs in basaltic rocks.

OL'IVINE, n. [from olive.] A subspecies of prismatic chrysolite of a brownish green, often inclining to a yellowish or grayish green, usually found in roundish grains in other stones; sometimes in large masses, but not crystallized. It is a constituent of many lavas and frequently occurs in basaltic rocks.

OLYM'PEAN, adjective Pertaining to Olympus; or to Olympis, a town in Greece.

Olympic games, or Olympics, solemn games among the ancient Greeks, dedicated to Olympian Jupiter, and celebrated once in four years at Olympia. [See Olympiad.]

OLYM'PIAD, noun [Latin Olympias; Gr. from Olympus, a mountain of Macedonia.]

A period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, and constituting an important epoch in history and chronology. The first olympiad commenced 775 years before the birth of Christ, and 22 years before the foundation of Rome. The computation by Olympiads ceased at the three hundred and sixty fourth olympiad in the year 440 of the christian era.