OR'ACH,

OR'ACLE, noun [Latin oraculum, from oro, to utter.]

1. Among pagans, the answer of a god or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry made respecting some affair of importance, usually respecting some future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle.

2. The deity who gave or was supposed to give answers to inquiries; as the Delphic oracle.

3. The place where the answers were given.

4. Among christians, oracles, in the plural, denotes the communications, revelations or messages delivered by God to prophets. In this sense it is rarely used in the singular; but we say, the oracles of God, divine oracles, meaning the Scriptures.

5. The sanctuary or most holy place in the temple, in which was deposited the ark of the covenant. 1 Kings 6:1.

6. Any person or place where certain decisions are obtained.

7. Any person reputed uncommonly wise, whose determinations are not disputed, or whose opinions are of great authority.

8. A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

OR'ACLE, verb intransitive To utter oracles.

OR'ACLE, n. [L. oraculum, from oro, to utter.]

OR'ACLE, v.i. To utter oracles.

ORAC'ULAR,

ORAC'ULARLY,

ORAC'ULOUS, adjective

1. Uttering oracles; as an oracular tongue.

The oraculous seer.

2. Grace; venerable; like an oracle; as an oracular shade.

They have something venerable and oracular in that unadorned gravity and shortness in the expression.

3. Positive; authoritative; magisterial; as oraculous expressions of sentiments.

4. Obscure; ambiguous, like the oracles of pagan deities.

ORAC'ULARLY,

ORAC'ULOUS, a.

ORAC'ULOUSLY,

adv.

1. In the manner of an oracle.

2. Authoritatively; positively.

ORAC'ULOUSNESS, noun The state of being oracular.

OR'AISON, noun [Latin oratio.] Prayer; verbal supplication or oral worship; now written orison.

O'RAL, adjective [Latin os, oris, the mouth.] Uttered by the mouth or in words; spoken, not written; as oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.

O'RALLY, adverb By mouth; in words, without writing; as traditions derived orally from ancestors.

OR'ANGE, noun [Latin aurantium; so named from aurum, gold, which the orange resembles in color.]

The fruit of a species of Citrus which grows in warm climates. The fruit is round and depressed; it has a rough rind, which when ripe is yellow. This contains a vesicular pulp inclosed in nine cells for seeds. The tree producing oranges grows to the height of ten or twelve feet and bears the same name.

OR'ANGERY, noun A plantation of orange trees.

ORA'TION, noun [Latin oratio, from oro, to pray, to utter.]

1. A speech or discourse composed according to the rules of oratory, and spoken in public. Orations may be reduced to three kinds; demonstrative, deliberative, and judicial.

2. In modern usage, an oration differs from a sermon, from an argument at the bar, and from a speech before a deliberative assembly. The word is now applied chiefly to discourses pronounced on special occasions, as a funeral oration an oration on some anniversary, etc. and to academic declamations.

3. A harangue; a public speech or address.

OR'ATOR, noun [Latin]

1. A public speaker. In ancient Rome, orators were advocates for clients in the forum and before the senate and people. They were employed in causes of importance instead of the common patron.

2. In modern usage, a person who pronounces a discourse publicly on some special occasion, as on the celebration of some memorable event.

3. An eloquent public speaker; a speaker, by way of eminence. We say, a man writes and reasons well, but is no orator Lord Chatham was an orator

4. In France, a speaker in debate in a legislative body.

5. In chancery, a petitioner.

6. An officer in the universities in England.

ORATO'RIAL,

ORATO'RIALLY,

ORATOR'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an orator or to oratory; rhetorical; becoming an orator. We say, a man has many oratorical flourishes, or he speaks in an oratorical way.

ORATO'RIALLY,

ORATOR'ICAL, a. Pertaining to an orator or to oratory; rhetorical; becoming an orator. We say, a man has many oratorical flourishes, or he speaks in an oratorical way.

ORATOR'ICALLY, adverb In a rhetorical manner.

ORATO'RIO, noun

1. In Italian music, a sacred drama of dialogues, containing recitatives, duets, trios, ritornellos, choruses, etc. The subjects are mostly taken from the Scriptures.

2. A place of worship; a chapel.

OR'ATORY, noun [Low Latin oratoria, from orator.]

1. The art of speaking well, or of speaking according to the rules of rhetoric, in order to persuade. To constitute oratory the speaking must be just and pertinent to the subject; it must be methodical, all parts of the discourse being disposed in due order and connection; and it must be embellished with the beauties of language and pronounced with eloquence. oratory consists of four parts, invention, disposition, elocution, and pronunciation.

2. Exercise of eloquence.

3. Among the Romanists, a close apartment near a bed-chamber, furnished with an altar, a crucifix, etc. for private devotions.

4. A place allotted for prayer, or a place for public worship.

OR'ATRESS,

OR'ATRIX, noun A female orator.

OR'ATRIX, n. A female orator.

ORB, noun [Latin orbis.]

1. A spherical body; as the celestial orbs.

2. In astronomy, a hollow globe or sphere.

3. A wheel; a circular body that revolves or rolls; as the orbs of a chariot.

4. A circle; a sphere defined by a line; as, he move in a larger orb

5. A circle described by any mundane sphere; an orbit.

6. Period; revolution of time.

7. The eye.

8. In tactics, the circular form of a body of troops, or a circular body of troops.

The ancient astronomers conceived the heavens as consisting of several vast azure transparent orbs or spheres inclosing one another, and including the bodies of the planets.

ORB, verb transitive To form into a circle.

ORB'ATE, adjective [Latin orbatus.] Bereaved; fatherless; childless.

ORBA'TION, noun [Latin orbatio, from orbo, to bereave.]

Privation of parents or children, or privation in general. [Not used.]

ORB'ED, adjective

1. Round; circular; orbicular.

2. Formed into a circle or round shape.

3. Rounded or covered on the exterior.

The wheels were orbed with gold.

ORB'IC, adjective Spherical.

ORBIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin orbiculus.] Spherical; circular; in the form of an orb.

ORBIC'ULARLY, adverb Spherically.

ORBIC'ULARNESS, noun Sphericity; the state of being orbicular.

ORBIC'ULATE,

ORBIC'ULATED, adjective [Latin orbiculatus.] Made or being in the form of an orb. In botany, an orbiculate or orbicular leaf is one that has the periphery of a circle, or both its longitudinal and transverse diameters equal.

ORBIC'ULATED, a. [L. orbiculatus.] Made or being in the form of an orb. In botany, an orbiculate or orbicular leaf is one that has the periphery of a circle, or both its longitudinal and transverse diameters equal.

ORBICULA'TION, noun The state of being made in the form of an orb.

ORB'IS,

ORB'-FISH, noun A fish of a circular form. It is covered with a firm hard skin full of small prickles, but is destitute of scales. It is unfit for food.

ORB'IT, noun [Latin orbita, a trace or track, from orbis, a wheel.]

1. In astronomy, the path of a planet or comet; the curve line which a planet describes in its periodical revolution round its central body; as the orbit of Jupiter or Mercury. The orbit of the earth is nearly one hundred and ninety millions of miles in diameter. The orbit of the moon is 480, 000 miles in diameter. The orbits of the planets are elliptical.

2. A small orb. [Not proper.]

3. In anatomy, the cavity in which the eye is situated.

ORB'ITAL,

ORBIT'UAL, adjective Pertaining to the orbit. [Orbital is the preferable word.]

ORBIT'UAL, a. Pertaining to the orbit. [Orbital is the preferable word.]

ORB'ITUDE,

ORB'ITY, noun [Latin orbitas.] Bereavement by loss of parents or children. [Little used.]

ORB'ITY, n. [L. orbitas.] Bereavement by loss of parents or children. [Little used.]

ORB'Y, adjective [from orb.] Resembling an orb.

ORC, noun [Latin orea; Gr.] A sea-fish, a species of whale.

The Delphinus orca is the grampus.

ORCHAL,

OR'CHANET, noun A plant, [Anchusa tinctoria.]

OR'CHARD, noun [See Yard.]

An inclosure for fruit trees. In Great Britain, a department of the garden appropriated to fruit trees of all kinds, but chiefly to apple trees. In America, any piece of land set with apple trees, is called an orchard; and orchards are usually cultivated land, being either grounds for mowing or tillage. In some parts of the country, a piece of ground planted with peach trees is called a peach orchard But in most cases, I believe the orchard in both countries is distinct from the garden.

OR'CHARDING, noun

1. The cultivation of orchards.

2. Orchards in general.

OR'CHARDIST, noun One that cultivates orchards.

ORCHEL,

OR'CHESTER,

OR'CHESTRA, noun [Latin orchestra; Gr. a dancer, to dance; originally, the place for the chorus of dancers.]

1. The part of a theater or other public place appropriated to the musicians. In the Grecian theaters, the orchester was a part of the stage; it was of a semicircular form and surrounded with seats. In the Roman theaters, it was no part of the scena, but answered nearly to the pit in modern play houses, and was occupied by senators and other persons of distinction.

2. The body of performers in the orchester.

OR'CHESTER,

OR'CHESTRA, n. [L. orchestra; Gr. a dancer, to dance; originally, the place for the chorus of dancers.]

OR'CHESTRAL, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to an orchester; suitable for or performed in the orchester.

ORCHIL, [See Archil.]

OR'CHIS, noun [Latin orchis; Gr.] A genus of plants, called fool-stones.

ORD, noun An edge or point; as in ordhelm.

ORD signifies beginning; as in ords and ends.

ORDA'IN, verb transitive [Latin ordino, from ordo, order.]

1. Properly, to set; to establish in a particular office or order; hence, to invest with a ministerial function or sacerdotal power; to introduce and establish or settle in the pastoral office with the customary forms and solemnities; as, to ordain a minister of the gospel. In America, men are ordained over a particular church and congregation, or as evangelists without the charge of a particular church, or as deacons in the episcopal church.

2. To appoint; to decree.

Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month. 1 Kings 12:32.

As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed.

Acts 13:48.

3. To set; to establish; to institute; to constitute.

Mulmutius ordained our laws.

4. To set apart for an office; to appoint.

Jesus ordained twelve that they should be with him. Mark 3:14.

5. To appoint; to prepare.

For Tophet is ordained of old. Isaiah 30:33.

ORDA'INABALE, adjective That may be appointed.

ORDA'INED, participle passive Appointed; instituted; established; invested with ministerial or pastoral functions; settled.

ORDA'INER, noun One who ordains, appoints or invests with sacerdotal powers.

ORDA'INING, participle present tense Appointing; establishing; investing with sacerdotal or pastoral functions.

OR'DEAL, noun [The last syllable is deal, to divide or distribute. The sense of the prefix is less obvious. But the real sense is not obvious. The practice of ordeal however seems to have had its origin in the belief that the substances used had each its particular presiding deity that had perfect control over it.]

1. An ancient form of trial to determine guilt or innocence, practiced by the rude nations of Europe, and still practiced in the East Indies. In England, the ordeal was of two sorts, fire-ordeal and water-ordeal; the former being confined to persons of higher rank, the latter to the common people. Both might be performed by deputy, but the principal was to answer for the success of the trial.

Fire-ordeal was performed either by taking in the hand a piece of red hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over nine red hot plowshares laid lengthwise at unequal distances; and if the person escapes unhurt, he was adjudged innocent, otherwise he was condemned as guilty.

Water-ordeal was performed, either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling water, or by casting the person suspected into a river or pond of cold water and if he floated without an effort to swim, it was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was acquitted.

Both in England and Sweden, the clergy presided at this trial. It was at last condemned as unlawful by the canon law, and in England it was abolished by an order in council of Henry III.

It is probably our proverbial phrase, to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or danger, is derived from the ordeal; as also the trial of witches by water.

2. Severe trial; accurate scrutiny.

OR'DER, noun [Latin ordo.]

1. Regular disposition or methodical arrangement of things; a word of extensive application; as the order of troops or parade; the order of books in a library; the order of proceedings in a legislative assembly. order is the life of business.

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

2. Proper state; as the muskets are all in good order When the bodily organs are in order a person is in health; when they are out of order he is indisposed.

3. Adherence to the point in discussion, according to established rules of debate; as, the member is not in order that is, he wanders from the question.

4. Established mode of proceeding. The motion is not in order

5. Regularity; settled mode of operation.

This fact could not occur in the order of nature; it is against the natural order of things.

6. Mandate; precept; command; authoritative direction. I have received an order from the commander in chief. The general gave orders to march. There is an order of council to issue letters of marque.

7. Rule; regulation; as the rules and orders of a legislative house.

8. Regular government or discipline. It is necessary for society that good order should be observed. The meeting was turbulent; it was impossible to keep order

9. Rank; class; division of men; as the order of nobles; the order of priests; the higher orders of society; men of the lowest order; order of knights; military orders, etc.

10. A religious fraternity; as the order of Benedictines.

11. A division of natural objects, generally intermediate between class and genus. The classes, in the Linnean artificial system, are divided into orders, which include one or more genera. Linne also arranged vegetables, in his natural system, into groups of genera, called order In the natural system of Jussieu, orders are subdivisions of classes.

12. Measures; care. Take some order for the safety and support of the soldiers.

Provide me soldiers whilst I take order for my own affairs.

13. In rhetoric, the placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty of expression, or to the clear illustration of the subject.

14. The title of certain ancient books containing the divine office and manner of its performance.

15. In architecture, a system of several members, ornaments and proportions of columns and pilasters; or a regular arrangement of the projecting parts of a building, especially of the columns, so as to form one beautiful whole. The orders are five, the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The order consists of two principal members, the column, and the entablature, each of which is composed of three principal parts. Those of the column are the base, the shaft, and the capital; those of the entablature are the architrave, the frize, and the cornice. The height of the Tuscan column is 14 modules or semidiameters of the shaft at the bottom, and that os the entablature 3 1/2. The height of the Doric order is 16 modules and that of the entablature 4; that of the Ionic is 18 modules, and that of the entablature 4 1/2, that of the Corinthian order is 20 modules, and that of the entablature 5. The height of the Composite order agrees with that of the Corinthian.

In orders, set apart for the performance divine service; ordained to the work of the gospel ministry.

In order for the purpose; to the end; as means to an end. The best knowledge is that which is of the greatest use in order to our eternal happiness.

General orders, the commands or notices which a military commander in chief issues to the troops under his command.

OR'DER, verb transitive

1. To regulate; to methodize; to systemize; to adjust; to subject to system in management and execution; as, to order domestic affairs with prudence.

2. To lead; to conduct; to subject to rules or laws.

To him that ordereth his conversation aright, will I show the salvation of God. Psalms 50:21.

3. to direct; to command. the general ordered his troops to advance.

4. To manage; to treat.

How shall we order the child? Judges 13:12.

5. To ordain. [Not used.]

6. To direct; to dispose in any particular manner.

Order my steps in thy word. Psalms 119:133.

OR'DER, verb intransitive to give command or direction.

OR'DERED, participle passive Regulated; methodized; disposed; commanded; managed.

OR'DERER, noun

1. One that gives orders.

2. One that methodizes or regulates.

OR'DERING, participle present tense Regulating; systemizing; commanding; disposing.

OR'DERING, noun Disposition; distribution. 2 Chronicles 24:1.

OR'DERLESS, adjective Without regularity; disorderly; out of rule.

OR'DERLINESS, noun [from orderly.]

1. Regularity; a state of being methodical.

2. The state of being orderly.

OR'DERLY, adjective

1. Methodical; regular

2. Observant of order or method.

3. Well regulated; performed in good order; not tumultuous; as an orderly march.

4. According to established method.

5. Not unruly; not inclined to break from inclosures; peaceable. We say, cattle are orderly

Orderly book, in military affairs, a book for every company, in which the sergeants write general and regimental orders.

Orderly sergeant, a military officer who attends on a superior officer.

OR'DERLY, adverb Methodically; according to due order; regularly; according to rule.

ORDINABIL'ITY, noun Capability of being appointed. [Not used.]

OR'DINABLE, adjective Such as may be appointed. [Not used.]

OR'DINAL, adjective [Latin ordinalis.] Noting order; as the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.

OR'DINAL, noun

1. A number noting order.

2. A book containing the order of divine service; a ritual.

OR'DINANCE, noun

1. A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action. An ordinance may be a law or statute of sovereign power. In this sense it is often used in the Scriptures. Exodus 15:25. Numbers 10:8. Ezra 3:10. It may also signify a decree, edict or rescript, and the word has sometimes been applied to the statutes of Parliament, but these are usually called acts or laws. In the United States, it is never applied to the acts of Congress, or of a state legislature.

2. Observance commanded.

3. Appointment.

4. Established rite or ceremony. Hebrews 9:1. In this sense, baptism and the Lord's supper are denominated ordinances.

OR'DINANT, adjective [Latin ordinans.] Ordaining; decreeing. [Not used.]

OR'DINARILY, adverb Primarily, according to established rules or settled method; hence, commonly; usually; in most cases as a winter more than ordinarily severe.

OR'DINARY, adjective [Latin ordinarius.]

1. According to established order; methodical; regular; customary; as the ordinary forms of law or justice.

2. Common; usual.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing.

3. Of common rank; not distinguished by superior excellence; as an ordinary reader; men of ordinary judgment.

4. Plain; not handsome; as an ordinary woman; a person of an ordinary form; an ordinary face.

5. Inferior; of little merit; as, the book is an ordinary performance.

6. An ordinary seaman is one not expert or fully skilled.

OR'DINARY, noun

1. In the common and canon law, one who has ordinary or immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge. In England, the bishop of the diocese is commonly the ordinary and the archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province. The ordinary of assizes and sessions was formerly a deputy of the bishop, appointed to give malefactors their neck-verses. The ordinary of Newgate is one who attends on condemned malefactors to prepare them for death.

2. Settled establishment.

3. Regular price of a meal.

4. A place of eating where the prices are settled.

5. The establishment of persons employed by government to take charge of ships of war laid up in harbors. Hence a ship in ordinary is one laid up under the direction of the master attendant.

In ordinary in actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as a physician or chaplain in ordinary An embassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court.

OR'DINATE, verb transitive To appoint. [Not used.]

OR'DINATE, adjective [Latin ordinatus.] Regular; methodical. An ordinate figure is one whose sides and angles are equal.

OR'DINATE, noun In geometry and conic sections, a line drawn from any point of the circumference of an ellipsis or other conic section, perpendicularly across the axis to the other side.

An ordinate is a line drawn perpendicular to the axis of a curve and terminating the curvilinear space.

Ordinates of a curve, right lines parallel to one another, terminated by the curve, and bisected by a right line called the diameter.

OR'DINATELY, adverb In a regular methodical manner.

ORDINA'TION, noun [Latin ordinatio.]

1. The state of being ordained or appointed; established order or tendency consequent on a decree.

Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively.

2. The act of conferring holy orders or sacerdotal power; called also consecration.

3. In the presbyterian and congregational churches, the act of settling or establishing a licensed cleryman over a church and congregation with pastoral charge and authority; also, the act of conferring on a clergyman the powers of a settled minister of the gospel, without the charge or oversight of a particular church, but with the general powers of an evangelist, who is authorized to form churches and administer the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper, wherever he may be called to officiate.

OR'DINATIVE, adjective Directing; giving order.

ORD'NANCE, noun [from ordinance.] Cannon or great guns, mortars and howitzers; artillery.

OR'DONNANCE, noun In painting, the disposition of the parts of a picture, either in regard to the whole piece or to the several parts.

OR'DURE, noun Dung; excrements.

ORE, noun [Latin as, aris, brass.

1. The compound of a metal and some other substance, as oxygen, sulphur or carbon, called its mineralizer, by which its properties are disguised or lost. Metals found free from such combination and exhibiting naturally their appropriate character, are not called ores, but native metals.

2. Metal; as the liquid ore

O'READ, noun [from Gr. mountain.] A mountain nymph.

ORF'GILD, noun

The restitution of goods or money stolen, if taken in the day time.

OR'FRAYS, noun Fringe of gold; gold embroidery.

OR'GAL, noun Argal; lees of wine dried; tartar.

OR'GAN, noun [Latin organum; Gr.]

1. A natural instrument of action or operation, or by which some process is carried on. Thus the arteries and veins of animal bodies are organs of circulation; the lungs are organs of respiration; the nerves are organs of perception and sensation; the muscles are organs of motion; the ears are organs of hearing; the tongue is the organ of speech.

2. The instrument or means of conveyance or communication. A secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power.

3. The largest and most harmonious of wind instruments of music, consisting of pipes which are filled with wind, and stops touched by the fingers. It is blown by a bellows.

ORGAN'IC,

ORGAN'ICAL, adjective [Latin organicus.]

1. Pertaining to an organ or to organs; consisting of organs or containing them; as the organic structure of the human body or of plants.

2. Produced by the organs; as organic pleasure.

3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or art to a certain end; as organic arts.

Organic bodies, are such as possess organs, on the action of which depend their growth and perfection; as animals and plants.

ORGAN'ICAL, a. [l. organicus.]

ORGAN'ICALLY, adverb

1. With organs; with organical structure or disposition of parts. The bodies of animals and plants are organically framed.

2. By means of organs.

ORGAN'ICALNESS, noun The state of being organical.

OR'GANISM, noun Organical structure; as the organism of bodies.

OR'GANIST, noun

1. One who plays on the organ.

2. One who sung in parts; an old musical use of the word.

ORGANIZA'TION, noun

1. The act or process of forming organs or instruments of action.

2. The act of forming or arranging the parts of a compound or complex body in a suitable manner for use or service; the act of distributing into suitable divisions and appointing the proper officers, as an army or a government.

The first organization of the general government.

3. Structure; form; suitable disposition of parts which are to act together in a compound body.

OR'GANIZE, verb transitive

1. To form with suitable organs; to construct so that one part may cooperate with another.

Those nobler faculties of the soul organized matter could never produce.

2. To sing in parts; as, to organize the hallelujah.

3. To distribute into suitable parts and appoint proper officers, that the whole may act as one body; as, to organize an army. So we say, to organize the house of representatives, which is done by the appointment of officers and verification of the powers of the several members. So we say, a club, a party or a faction is organized, when it takes a systemized form.

This original and supreme will organizes the government.

OR'GANIZED, participle passive Formed with organs; constructed organically; systemized; reduced to a form in which all the parts may act together to one end. Animals and plants are organized bodies. Minerals are not organized bodies.

OR'GANIZING, participle present tense Constructing with suitable organs; reducing to system in order to produce united action to one end.

ORGANOGRAPH'IC,

ORGANOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to organography.

ORGANOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to organography.

ORGANOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr.]

In botany, a description of the organs of plants, or of the names and kinds of their organs.

ORGANY. [See origan.]

ORGAN'ZINE, noun Silk twisted into threads; thrown silk.

OR'GASM, noun [Gr. to swell; to irritate.]

Immoderate excitement or action; as the orgasm of the blood or spirits.

OR'GEAT, noun A liquor extracted from barley and sweet almonds.

OR'GEIS, noun A fish, called also organ-ling; supposed to be from Orkneys, on the coast of which it is taken.

OR'GIES, noun plural [Gr. to swell; fury; Latin orgia.]

Frantic revels at the feast in honor of Bacchus, or the feast itself. This feast was held in the night; hence nocturnal orgies

ORGIL'LOUS, adjective [Gr. to swell.] Proud; haughty. [Not used.]

OR'GUES, noun

1. In the military art, long thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron and hung over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.

2. A machine composed of several musket barrels united, by means of which several explosions are made at once to defend breaches.

OR'ICHALCH,

ORICHAL'CUM, noun [Latin orichalcum, mountain brass; Gr. aurichalcum, gold-brass.]

A metallic substance resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; the brass of the ancients.

O'RIEL,

O'RIENCY, noun [See Orient.] Brightness or strength of color. [Little used.]

O'RIENT, adjective [Latin oriens, from orior, to arise.]

1. Rising, as the sun.

- Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun.

The orient morn.

2. Eastern; oriental.

3. Bright; shining; glittering; as orient pearls.

O'RIENT, noun The east; the part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning.

ORIENT'AL, adjective

1. Eastern; situated in the east; as oriental seas or countries.

2. Proceeding from the east; as the oriental radiations of the sun.

ORIENT'AL, noun A native or inhabitant of some eastern part of the world. We give the appellation to the inhabitants of Asia from the Hellespont and Mediterranean to Japan.

ORIENT'ALISM, noun An eastern mode of speech; an idiom of the eastern languages.

ORIENT'ALIST, noun

1. An inhabitant of the eastern parts of the world.

2. One versed in the eastern languages and literature.

ORIENTAL'ITY, noun The state of being oriental or eastern. [Not used.]

OR'IFICE, noun [Latin orificium; os, oris, mouth, and facio, to make.]

The mouth or aperture of a tube, pipe or other cavity; as the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.

The orifice of Etna.

OR'IFLAMB, noun The ancient royal standard of France.

OR'IGAN,

ORIGA'NUM, noun [Latin from Gr.] Marjoram, a genus of plants. One species of this genus is a rich aromatic, excellent for culinary purposes.

OR'IGENISM, noun The doctrines or tenets of Origen, who united Platonism with christianity.

OR'IGENIST, noun A follower of Origen of Alexandria, a celebrated christian father. The Origenists held that the souls of men have a pre-existent state; that they are holy intelligences, and sin before they are united to the body; that Christ will be crucified hereafter for the salvation of devils, etc.

OR'IGIN, noun [Latin origo.]

1. The first existence or beginning of any thing; as the origin of Rome. In history it is necessary, if practicable, to trace all events to their origin

2. Fountain; source; cause; that from which any thing primarily proceeds; that which gives existence or beginning. The apostasy is believed to have been the origin of moral evil. The origin of many of our customs is lost in antiquity. Nations, like individuals, are ambitious to trace their descent from an honorable origin

ORIG'INAL, noun

1. Origin. [See Origin, with which it accords in signification.]

2. Fountain; source; cause; that from which any thing primarily proceeds; that which gives existence or beginning. The apostasy is believed to have been the origin of moral evil. The origin of many of our customs is lost in antiquity. Nations, like individuals, are ambitious to trace their descent from an honorable origin.

ORIG'INAL, adjective [Latin orginialis.]

1. First in order; preceding all others; as the original state of man; the original laws of a country; original rights or powers; the original question in debate.

2. Primitive; pristine; as the original perfection of Adam.

Original sin, as applied to Adam, was his first act of disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit; as applied to his posterity, it is understood to mean either the sin of Adam imputed to his posterity, or that corruption of nature, or total depravity, which has been derived from him in consequence of his apostasy. On this subject divines are not agreed.

In strictness, original sin is an improper use of words, as sin, ex vi termini, implies volition and the transgression of a known rule of duty by a moral agent. But this application of the words has been established by long use, and it serves to express ideas which many wise and good men entertain on this subject.

3. Having the power to originate new thoughts or combinations of thought; as an original genius.

ORIGINAL'ITY, noun

1. The quality or state of being original.

2. The power of originating or producing new thoughts, or uncommon combinations of thought; as originality of genius.

ORIG'INALLY, adverb

1. Primarily; from the beginning or origin.

God is originally holy in himself.

2. At first; at the origin.

3. By the first author; as a book originally written by another hand.

ORIG'INALNESS, noun The quality or state of being original.

ORIG'INARY, adjective

1. Productive; causing existence.

The production of animals in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth.

2. Primitive; original.

[This word is little used.]

ORIG'INATE, verb transitive To cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce what is new.

The change is to be effected without a decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order out of the elements of society.

That matter which cannot think, will, or originate motion, should communicate thought, volition and motivity, is plainly impossible.

ORIG'INATE, verb intransitive To take first existence; to have origin; to be begun. The scheme originated with the governor and council. It originated in pure benevolence.

ORIG'INATED, participle passive Brought into existence.

ORIG'INATING, participle present tense Bringing into existence.

ORIGINA'TION, noun

1 The act of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

Descartes first introduced the fancy of making a world, and deducing the origination of the universe from mechanical principles.

2. Mode of production or bringing into being.

This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars.

ORIL'LON, noun In fortification, a rounding of earth, faced with a wall, raised on the shoulder of those bastions that have casemates, to cover the cannon in the retired flank, and prevent their being dismounted.

O'RIOL, noun A small apartment next a hall, where particular persons dine; a sort of recess. obsolete

O'RIOLE, noun A genus of birds of the order of picae.

ORI'ON, noun [Gr. unfortunately accented by the poets on the second syllable.]

A constellation in the southern hemisphere, containing seventy eight stars.

OR'ISON, noun [Latin oratio, from, oro.]

A prayer of supplication.

Lowly they bowed adoring, and began their orisons, each morning duly paid.

ORK, noun [Latin orca.] A fish.

ORLE, noun [infra.] In heraldry, an ordinary in the form of a fillet, round the shield.

OR'LET,

OR'LO, noun [Heb.] In architecture, a fillet under the ovolo of a capital.

OR'LO, n. [Heb.] In architecture, a fillet under the ovolo of a capital.

OR'LOP, noun

In a ship of war, a platform of planks laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are usually coiled. It contains also sail-rooms, carpenters' cabins and other apartments.

Also, a tier of beams below the lower deck for a like purpose.

OR'NAMENT, noun [Latin ornamentum, from orno, to adorn. Varro informs us that this was primitively osnamentum; but this is improbable. See Adorn.]

1. That which embellishes; something which, added to another thing, renders it more beautiful to the eye.

The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets and the ornaments of the legs - Isaiah 3:18.

2. In architecture, ornaments are sculpture or carved work.

3. Embellishment; decoration; additional beauty.

- The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price. 1 Peter 3:4.

OR'NAMENT, verb transitive To adorn; to deck; to embellish.

ORNAMENT'AL, adjective Serving to decorate; giving additional beauty; embellishing.

Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others about their ankles.

ORNAMENT'ALLY, adverb In such a manner as to add embellishment.

OR'NAMENTED, participle passive Decorated; embellished; beautified.

OR'NAMENTING, participle present tense Decorating; embellishing.

OR'NATE, adjective [Latin ornatus.] Adorned; decorated; beautiful.

OR'NATELY, adverb With decoration.

OR'NATENESS, noun State of being adorned.

OR'NATURE, noun Decoration. [Little used.]

ORNISCOP'ICS, noun Divination by the observation of fowls.

ORNIS'COPIST, noun [Gr. a bird, and to view.]

One who views the flight of fowls in order to foretell future events by their manner of flight. [Little used.]

ORNITH'OLITE, noun A petrified bird.

ORNITHOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to ornithology.

ORNITHOL'OGIST, noun [See Ornithology.] A person who is skilled in the natural history of fowls, who understands their form, structure, habits and uses; one who describes birds.

ORNITHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a fowl, and discourse.]

The science of fowls, which comprises a knowledge of their form, structure, habits and uses.

ORNITH'OMANCY, noun [Gr. a fowl, and divination.]

Augury, a species of divination by means of fowls, their flight, etc.

OR'OHANED, adjective Bereft of parents or friends.

OROLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Orology.] Pertaining to a description of mountains.

OROL'OGIST, noun A describer of mountains.

OROL'OGY, noun [Gr. a mountain, and discourse.] The science or description of mountains.

OR'PHAN, noun [Gr.]

A child who is bereaved of father or mother or of both.

OR'PHAN, adjective Bereaved of parents.

OR'PHANAGE,

OR'PHANISM, noun The state of an orphan.

ORPHANOT'ROPHY, noun [Gr. orphan, and food.] A hospital for orphans.

OR'PHEAN,

OR'PHEUS, noun A fish found in the Mediterranean, broad, flat and thick, and sometimes weighing twenty pounds. The orpheus of the Greeks is said to have been a different fish.

OR'PHEUS, n. A fish found in the Mediterranean, broad, flat and thick, and sometimes weighing twenty pounds. The orpheus of the Greeks is said to have been a different fish.

OR'PHIC, adjective Pertaining to Orpheus, the poet and musician; as orphic hymns.

OR'PIMENT, noun [Latin auripigmentum; aurum, gold, and pigmentum.]

Sulphuret of arsenic, found native and then an ore of arsenic, or artificially composed. The native orpiment appears in yellow, brilliant and seemingly talcky masses of various sizes. The red orpiment is called realgar. It is more or less lively and transparent, and often crystallized in bright needles. In this form it is called ruby of arsenic.

OR'PINE, noun A plant of the genus Sedum, lesser houseleek or live-long. The bastard orpine is of the genus Andrachine; the lesser orpine of the genus Crassula.

ORRACH. [See. Orach.]

OR'RACH, noun A plant of the genus Atriplex, used as a substitute for spinage.

Wild orach is of the genus Chenopodium.

OR'RERY, noun A machine so constructed as to represent by the movements of its parts, the motions and phases of the planets in their orbits. This machine was invented by George Graham, but Rowley, a workman, borrowed one from him, and made a copy for the earl of orrery after whom it was named by Sir Richard Steele. similar machines are called also planetariums.

OR'RIS, noun

1. The plant iris, of which orris seems to be a corruption; fleur de lis or flag-flower.

2. A sort of gold or silver lace.

ORT, noun A fragment; refuse.

OR'TALON, noun A small bird of the genus Alauda.

OR'THITE, noun [Gr. straight.] A mineral occurring in straight layers in felspath rock with albite, etc. It is of a blackish brown color, resembling gadolinite, but differs from it is fusibility.

ORTHOCER'ATITE, noun [Gr. straight, and a horn.]

The name of certain fossil univalve shells, straight or but slightly curved, arranged by Cuvier in the genus Nantilus.

OR'THODOX, adjective [See Orthodoxy.]

1. Sound in the christian faith; believing the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures; opposed to heretical; as an orthodox christian.

2. According with the doctrines of Scripture; as an orthodox creed or faith.

OR'THODOXLY, adverb With soundness of faith.

OR'THODOXNESS, noun The state of being sound in the faith, or of according with the doctrines of Scripture.

OR'THODOXY, noun [Gr. right, true, and opinion, from to think.]

1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures.

Basil bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy

2. Consonance to genuine scriptural doctrines; as the orthodoxy of a creed.

ORTHODROM'IC, adjective [See orthodromy.] Pertaining to orthodromy.

ORTHODROM'ICS, noun The art of sailing in the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe.

OR'THODROMY, noun [Gr. right, and course.] The sailing in a straight course.

OR'THOEPIST, noun [See Orthoepy.] One who pronounces words correctly, or who is well skilled in pronunciation.

OR'THOEPY, noun [Gr. right, and word, or to speak.]

The art of uttering words with propriety; a correct pronunciation of words.

OR'THOGON, noun [Gr. right, and angle.] A rectangular figure.

ORTHOG'ONAL, adjective Right angled; rectangular.

ORTHOG'RAPHER, noun [See Orthography.] One that spells words correctly, according to common usage.

ORTHOGRAPH'IC,

ORTHOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective

1. Correctly spelled; written with the proper letters.

2. Pertaining to the spelling of words; as, to make an orthographical mistake.

Orthographic projection of the sphere, a delineation of the sphere upon a plane that cuts it in the middle, the eye being supposed to be placed at an infinite distance from it.

A projection in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; so called because the perpendiculars from any point of the sphere will all fall in the common intersection of the sphere with the plane of the projection.

ORTHOGRAPH'ICAL, a.

ORTHOGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb

1. According to the rules of proper spelling.

2. In the manner of orthographic projection.

ORTHOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. right, and writing.]

1. The art of writing words with the proper letters, according to common usage.

2. The part of grammar which treats of the nature and properties of letters, and of the art of writing words correctly.

3. The practice of spelling or writing words with the proper letters.

4. In geometry, the art of delineating the fore right plane or side of any object, and of expressing the elevations of each part; so called because it determines things by perpendicular lines falling on the geometrical plane.

5. In architecture, the elevation of a building, showing all the parts in their true proportion.

6. In perspective, the fore right side of any plane, that is, the side or plane that lies parallel to a straight line that may be imagined to pass through the outward convex points of the eyes, continued to a convenient length.

7. In fortification, the profile or representation of a work in all its parts, as they would appear if perpendicularly cut from top to bottom.

ORTHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. right, and discourse.] The right description of things.

ORTHOM'ETRY, noun [Gr. right, and measure.]

The art or practice of constructing verse correctly; the laws of correct versification.

ORTHOP'NY, noun [Gr. right, erect, and breath; to breathe.]

1. A species of asthma in which respiration can be performed on in an erect posture.

2. Any difficulty of breathing.

OR'TIVE, adjective [Latin ortivus, from ortus, orior, to rise.]

Rising, or eastern. The ortive amplitude of a planet is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the point where a star rises, and the east point of the horizon, the point where the horizon and equator intersect.

OR'TOLAN, noun [Latin hortulanus, from hortus, a garden.]

A bird of the genus Emberiza, about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is found in France and Italy, feeds on panic grass, and is delicious food.

ORTS, noun Fragments; pieces; refuse.

OR'VAL, noun The herb clary.

ORVIE'TAN, noun An antidote or counter poison. [Not used.]

ORYCTOGNOS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to oryctognosy.

ORYCTOG'NOSY, noun [Gr. fossil, and knowledge.]

That branch of mineralogy which has for its object the classification of minerals, according to well ascertained characters, and under appropriate denominations.

Oryctognosy consists in the description of minerals, the determination of their nomenclature, and the systematic arrangement of their different species. It coincides nearly with mineralogy, in its modern acceptation.

ORYCTOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. fossil, and to describe.]

That part of natural history in which fossils are described.

ORYCTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. fossil, and discourse.] That part of physics which treats of fossils.