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- English Word Oak Definition Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.
- English Word Oaken Definition Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks.
- English Word Oaker Definition See Ocher.
- English Word Oakling Definition A young oak.
- English Word Oakum Definition The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling.
- English Word Oakum Definition The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.
- English Word Oaky Definition Resembling oak; strong.
- English Word Oar Definition An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.
- English Word Oar Definition An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.
- English Word Oar Definition An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
- English Word Oar Definition To row.
- English Word Oar-footed Definition Having feet adapted for swimming.
- English Word Oared Definition Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four-oared boat.
- English Word Oared Definition of Oar
- English Word Oared Definition Having feet adapted for swimming.
- English Word Oared Definition Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.
- English Word Oarfish Definition The ribbon fish.
- English Word Oarfoot Definition Any crustacean of the genus Remipes.
- English Word Oaring Definition of Oar
- English Word Oarless Definition Without oars.
- English Word Oarlock Definition The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
- English Word Oarsman Definition One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.
- English Word Oarsmen Definition of Oarsman
- English Word Oarsweed Definition Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.
- English Word Oary Definition Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan's oary feet.
- English Word Oases Definition of Oasis
- English Word Oasis Definition A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
- English Word Oast Definition A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle.
- English Word Oat Definition A well-known cereal grass (Avena sativa), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.
- English Word Oat Definition A musical pipe made of oat straw.