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  • English Word Orchidean Definition Orchidaceous.
  • English Word Orchideous Definition Same as Orchidaceous.
  • English Word Orchidologist Definition One versed in orchidology.
  • English Word Orchidology Definition The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
  • English Word Orchil Definition See Archil.
  • English Word Orchilla weed Definition The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.
  • English Word Orchis Definition A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.
  • English Word Orchis Definition Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
  • English Word Orchises Definition of Orchis
  • English Word Orchitis Definition Inflammation of the testicles.
  • English Word Orchotomy Definition The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
  • English Word Orcin Definition A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
  • English Word Ord Definition An edge or point; also, a beginning.
  • English Word Ordain Definition To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
  • English Word Ordain Definition To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
  • English Word Ordain Definition To set apart for an office; to appoint.
  • English Word Ordain Definition To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
  • English Word Ordainable Definition Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
  • English Word Ordained Definition of Ordain
  • English Word Ordainer Definition One who ordains.
  • English Word Ordaining Definition of Ordain
  • English Word Ordainment Definition Ordination.
  • English Word Ordal Definition Ordeal.
  • English Word Ordalian Definition Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
  • English Word Ordeal Definition An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
  • English Word Ordeal Definition Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
  • English Word Ordeal Definition Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
  • English Word Order Definition Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
  • English Word Order Definition Of material things, like the books in a library.
  • English Word Order Definition Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.