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  • English Word Orphanage Definition The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
  • English Word Orphanage Definition An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
  • English Word Orphancy Definition Orphanhood.
  • English Word Orphaned Definition of Orphan
  • English Word Orphanet Definition A little orphan.
  • English Word Orphanhood Definition The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.
  • English Word Orphaning Definition of Orphan
  • English Word Orphanism Definition Orphanhood.
  • English Word Orphanotrophism Definition The care and support of orphans.
  • English Word Orphanotrophy Definition A hospital for orphans.
  • English Word Orphanotrophy Definition The act of supporting orphans.
  • English Word Orpharion Definition An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.
  • English Word Orphean Definition Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains.
  • English Word Orpheline Definition An orphan.
  • English Word Orpheus Definition The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
  • English Word Orphic Definition Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns.
  • English Word Orphrey Definition A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics.
  • English Word Orpiment Definition Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing.
  • English Word Orpin Definition A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
  • English Word Orpin Definition The orpine.
  • English Word Orpine Definition A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever.
  • English Word Orrach Definition See Orach.
  • English Word Orreries Definition of Orrery
  • English Word Orrery Definition An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
  • English Word Orris Definition A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.
  • English Word Orris Definition A sort of gold or silver lace.
  • English Word Orris Definition A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
  • English Word Orsedew Definition Alt. of Orsedue
  • English Word Orsedue Definition Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.
  • English Word Orseille Definition See Archil.