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- English Word Orbity Definition Orbation.
- English Word Orbulina Definition A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.
- English Word Orby Definition Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving.
- English Word Orc Definition The grampus.
- English Word Orcadian Definition Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
- English Word Orcein Definition A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
- English Word Orchal Definition See Archil.
- English Word Orchanet Definition Same as Alkanet, 2.
- English Word Orchard Definition A garden.
- English Word Orchard Definition An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
- English Word Orcharding Definition The cultivation of orchards.
- English Word Orcharding Definition Orchards, in general.
- English Word Orchardist Definition One who cultivates an orchard.
- English Word Orchel Definition Archil.
- English Word Orchesography Definition A treatise upon dancing.
- English Word Orchester Definition See Orchestra.
- English Word Orchestian Definition Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidae. See Beach flea, under Beach.
- English Word Orchestra Definition The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
- English Word Orchestra Definition The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
- English Word Orchestra Definition Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
- English Word Orchestra Definition Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
- English Word Orchestra Definition A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
- English Word Orchestra Definition The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
- English Word Orchestral Definition Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
- English Word Orchestration Definition The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
- English Word Orchestre Definition See Orchestra.
- English Word Orchestric Definition Orchestral.
- English Word Orchestrion Definition A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.
- English Word Orchid Definition Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
- English Word Orchidaceous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.