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- English Word Olive Definition A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
- English Word Olive Definition Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
- English Word Olived Definition Decorated or furnished with olive trees.
- English Word Olivenite Definition An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.
- English Word Oliver Definition An olive grove.
- English Word Oliver Definition An olive tree.
- English Word Oliver Definition A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
- English Word Oliverian Definition An adherent of Oliver Cromwell.
- English Word Olivewood Definition The wood of the olive.
- English Word Olivewood Definition An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elaeodendron, and also to the trees themselves.
- English Word Olivil Definition A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties.
- English Word Olivin Definition A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite.
- English Word Olivine Definition A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
- English Word Olivite Definition See Olivin.
- English Word Olla Definition A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.
- English Word Olla Definition A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.
- English Word Olla-podrida Definition A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.
- English Word Olla-podrida Definition Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection; an olio.
- English Word Ology Definition A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.
- English Word Olpe Definition Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.
- English Word Olusatrum Definition An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum).
- English Word Olympiad Definition A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads.
- English Word Olympian Definition Alt. of Olympic
- English Word Olympic Definition Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis.
- English Word Olympionic Definition An ode in honor of a victor in the Olympic games.
- English Word Omagra Definition Gout in the shoulder.
- English Word Omahas Definition A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.
- English Word Omander wood Definition The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
- English Word Omasum Definition The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.
- English Word Omber Definition Alt. of Ombre