OM'BER,
OM'BRE, noun [Latin homo.]
A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, usually played by three persons, though sometimes by two or five.
OM'BRE, n. [L. homo.]
A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, usually played by three persons, though sometimes by two or five.OMBROM'ETER, noun [Gr. rain, and measure.]
A machine or instrument to measure the quantity of rain that falls.
OME'GA, noun [Gr. great O.] The name of the last letter of the Greek alphabet, as Alpha, A, is the first. Hence in Scripture, Alpha and omega denotes the first and last, the beginning and the ending. Rev.
OM'ELET, noun A kind of pancake or fritter made with eggs and other ingredients.
O'MEN, noun [Latin omen; Heb. an augur.]
A sign or indication of some future event; a prognostic. Superstition and ignorance multiply omens; philosophy and truth reject all omens, except such as may be called causes of the events. Without a miracle, how can one event be the omen of another with which it has no connection?
O'MENED, adjective Containing an omen or prognostic.
OMENT'UM, noun [Latin] In anatomy, the caul or epiploon; a membranaceous covering of the bowels, being placed under the peritoneum and immediately above the intestines.
O'MER, noun [Heb.] A Hebrew measure containing ten baths, or seventy five gallons and five pints of liquids, and eight bushels of things dry. It was the largest measure used by the Jews. It is written also homer and chomer. This word is used by the prophets, but the corresponding measure is called by the historical writers corus.
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OM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin ominor, from omen.] To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Little used.]
OM'INATE, verb intransitive To foretoken.
OM'INATE, v.t. [L. ominor, from omen.] To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Little used.]
OM'INATE, v.i. To foretoken.
OMINA'TION, noun A foreboding; a presaging; prognostic. [Little used.]
OM'INOUS, adjective [Latin ominosus.]
1. Foreboding or presaging evil; indicating a future evil event; inauspicious.
In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous
2. Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good.
Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed.
OM'INOUSLY, adverb With good or bad omens.
OM'INOUSNESS, n. The quality of being ominous.
OMIS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin omissus. See Omit.] That may be omitted.
OMIS'SION, noun [Latin omissio, from omitto, omissus.]
1. Neglect or failure to do something which a person had power to do, or which duty required to be done. omission may be innocent or criminal; innocent, when no duty demands performance, but criminal when duty is neglected.
The most natural division of all offenses, is into those of omission and those of commission.
2. A leaving out; neglect or failure; to insert or mention; as the omission of a word or clause.
OMIS'SIVE, adjective Leaving out.
OMIT', verb transitive [Latin omitto; ob and mitto, to send.]
1. To leave, pass by or neglect; to fail or forbear to do or to use; as, to omit an opportunity of writing a letter. To omit known duty is criminal.
2. To leave out; not to insert or mention; as, to omit an important word in a deed; to omit invidious comparisons; to omit a passage in reading or transcribing.
OMIT'TANCE, noun Forbearance; neglect. [Not used.]
OMIT'TED, participle passive Neglected; passed by; left out.
OMIT'TING, participle present tense Neglecting or failing to do or use; passing by; leaving out.
OMNIFA'RIOUS, adjective [Low Latin omnifarius.] Of all varieties, forms or kinds.
OMNIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin omnifer; omnis, all, and fero, to bear.]
All-bearing; producing all kinds.
OMNIF'IC, adjective [Latin omnis, all, and facio, to make.] All-creating.
Thou deep, peace! said then th' omnific word, your discord end.
OM'NIFORM, adjective [Latin omnis, all, and forma, form.] Having every form or shape.
OMNIFORM'ITY, noun The quality of having every form.
OMNIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin omnigenus; omnis, all, every, and genus, kind.] Consisting of all kinds.
OMNIPAR'ITY, noun [Latin omnis, all, and par, equal.] General equality.
OMNIPERCIP'IENCE, noun [Latin omnis, and percipiens, perceiving.]
Perception of every thing.
OMNIPERCIP'IENT, adjective Perceiving every thing.
OMNIP'OTENCE, 'OTENCY, noun [Latin omnipotens; omnis, all, and potens, powerful.]
OMNIP'OTENT, adjective [supra.]
1. Almighty; possessing unlimited power; all powerful. The being that can create worlds must be omnipotent
2. Having unlimited power of a particular kind; as omnipotent love.
OMNIP'OTENTLY, adverb With almighty power.
OMNIPRES'ENCE, noun s as z. [Latin omnis, and presens, present.]
Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. omnipresence is an attribute peculiar to God.
OMNIPRES'ENT, adjective Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitary; as the omnipresent Jehovah.
OMNIPRESEN'TIAL, adjective Implying universal presence.
OMNIS'CIENCE,
OMNIS'CIENCY, noun [Latin omnis, all, and scientia, knowledge.]
The quality of knowing all things at once; universal knowledge; knowledge unbounded or infinite. omniscience is an attribute peculiar to God.
OMNIS'CIENCY, n. [L. omnis, all, and scientia, knowledge.]
The quality of knowing all things at once; universal knowledge; knowledge unbounded or infinite. Omniscience is an attribute peculiar to God.OMNIS'CIENT, adjective Having universal knowledge or knowledge of all things; infinitely knowing; all-seeing; as the omniscient God.
OMNIS'CIOUS, adjective [Latin omnis, all, and scio, to know.] All-knowing. [Not used.]
OM'NIUM, noun [Latin omnis, all.] The aggregate of certain portions of different stocks in the public funds; a word in use among dealers in the English stocks.
Omnium denotes all the particulars included in the contract between government and the public for a loan.
OMNIV'OROUS, adjective [Latin omnivorus; omnis, all, and voro, to eat.]
All-devouring; eating every thing indiscriminately.
OM'OPLATE, noun [Gr. shoulder, and broad.] The shoulder blade or scapula.
OM'PHACINE, adjective [Gr. from unripe fruit.]
Pertaining to or expressed from unripe fruit. omphacine oil is a viscous brown juice extracted from green olives. With this the wrestlers in the ancient gymnastic exercises used to anoint their bodies.
OM'PHACITE, noun A mineral of a pale leek green color, massive or disseminated, and in narrow radiated concretions.
OM'PHALIC, noun [Gr. the navel.] Pertaining to the navel.
OMPHAL'OCELE, noun [Latin navel, and tumor.] A rupture at the navel.
OM'PHALOPTER,
OMPHALOP'TIC, noun [Gr. navel, and optic.]
An optical glass that is convex on both sides; commonly called a convex lens.
OMPHALOP'TIC, n. [Gr. navel, and optic.]
An optical glass that is convex on both sides; commonly called a convex lens.OMPHALOT'OMY, noun [Gr. the navel, and to cut.]
The operation of dividing the navel string.
O'MY, adjective Mellow; as land.