OPage 10
- English Word Oblong Definition A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
- English Word Oblong Definition Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
- English Word Oblong-ovate Definition Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
- English Word Oblonga Definition of Oblongum
- English Word Oblongata Definition The medulla oblongata.
- English Word Oblongatal Definition Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.
- English Word Oblongish Definition Somewhat oblong.
- English Word Oblongly Definition In an oblong form.
- English Word Oblongness Definition State or quality of being oblong.
- English Word Oblongum Definition A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.
- English Word Obloquious Definition Containing obloquy; reproachful
- English Word Obloquy Definition Cause of reproach; disgrace.
- English Word Obloquy Definition Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.
- English Word Obluctation Definition A struggle against; resistance; opposition.
- English Word Obmutescence Definition A keeping silent or mute.
- English Word Obmutescence Definition A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
- English Word Obnoxious Definition Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy.
- English Word Obnoxious Definition Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to.
- English Word Obnoxious Definition Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the Whigs.
- English Word Obnubilate Definition To cloud; to obscure.
- English Word Oboe Definition One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
- English Word Oboist Definition A performer on the oboe.
- English Word Obolary Definition Possessing only small coins; impoverished.
- English Word Obole Definition A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple.
- English Word Oboli Definition of Obolus
- English Word Obolize Definition See Obelize.
- English Word Obolo Definition A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.
- English Word Obolus Definition An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm.
- English Word Obolus Definition A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.
- English Word Obomegoid Definition Obversely omegoid.