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- English Word Oregon grape Definition An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
- English Word Oreide Definition See Oroide.
- English Word Oreodon Definition A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
- English Word Oreodont Definition Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
- English Word Oreographic Definition Of or pertaining to oreography.
- English Word Oreography Definition The science of mountains; orography.
- English Word Oreoselin Definition A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
- English Word Oreosoma Definition A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
- English Word Oreweed Definition Same as Oarweed.
- English Word Orewood Definition Same as Oarweed.
- English Word Orf Definition Alt. of Orfe
- English Word Orfe Definition A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.
- English Word Orfgild Definition Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
- English Word Orfray Definition The osprey.
- English Word Orfrays Definition See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
- English Word Orgal Definition See Argol.
- English Word Organ Definition An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
- English Word Organ Definition A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.
- English Word Organ Definition A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
- English Word Organ Definition A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
- English Word Organ Definition A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
- English Word Organ Definition To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
- English Word Organdie Definition Alt. of Organdy
- English Word Organdy Definition A kind of transparent light muslin.
- English Word Organic Definition Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.
- English Word Organic Definition Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.
- English Word Organic Definition Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
- English Word Organic Definition Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
- English Word Organic Definition Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
- English Word Organical Definition Organic.