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  • English Word Originally Definition In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.
  • English Word Originally Definition At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand.
  • English Word Originalness Definition The quality of being original; originality.
  • English Word Originant Definition Originating; original.
  • English Word Originary Definition Causing existence; productive.
  • English Word Originary Definition Primitive; primary; original.
  • English Word Originate Definition To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
  • English Word Originate Definition To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.
  • English Word Originated Definition of Originate
  • English Word Originating Definition of Originate
  • English Word Origination Definition The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
  • English Word Origination Definition Mode of production, or bringing into being.
  • English Word Originative Definition Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.
  • English Word Originator Definition One who originates.
  • English Word Orillon Definition A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.
  • English Word Oriol Definition See Oriel.
  • English Word Oriole Definition Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.
  • English Word Oriole Definition In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard.
  • English Word Orion Definition A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.
  • English Word Oriskany Definition Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.
  • English Word Orismological Definition Of or pertaining to orismology.
  • English Word Orismology Definition That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.
  • English Word Orison Definition A prayer; a supplication.
  • English Word Orisont Definition Horizon.
  • English Word Ork Definition See Orc.
  • English Word Orkneyan Definition Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands.
  • English Word Orle Definition A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
  • English Word Orle Definition The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
  • English Word Orleans Definition A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.
  • English Word Orleans Definition A variety of the plum. See under Plum.