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  • English Word Oscan Definition Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.
  • English Word Oscan Definition The language of the Osci.
  • English Word Oscillancy Definition The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
  • English Word Oscillaria Definition A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.
  • English Word Oscillate Definition To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.
  • English Word Oscillate Definition To vary or fluctuate between fixed limits; to act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth.
  • English Word Oscillated Definition of Oscillate
  • English Word Oscillating Definition of Oscillate
  • English Word Oscillating Definition That oscillates; vibrating; swinging.
  • English Word Oscillation Definition The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.
  • English Word Oscillation Definition Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
  • English Word Oscillative Definition Tending to oscillate; vibratory.
  • English Word Oscillatoria Definition Same as Oscillaria.
  • English Word Oscillatory Definition Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.
  • English Word Oscine Definition Relating to the Oscines.
  • English Word Oscines Definition Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
  • English Word Oscinian Definition One of the Oscines, or singing birds.
  • English Word Oscinian Definition Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.
  • English Word Oscinine Definition Of or pertaining to the Oscines.
  • English Word Oscitancy Definition The act of gaping or yawning.
  • English Word Oscitancy Definition Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness.
  • English Word Oscitant Definition Yawning; gaping.
  • English Word Oscitant Definition Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.
  • English Word Oscitantly Definition In an oscitant manner.
  • English Word Oscitate Definition To gape; to yawn.
  • English Word Oscitation Definition The act of yawning or gaping.
  • English Word Oscula Definition of Osculum
  • English Word Osculant Definition Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
  • English Word Osculant Definition Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
  • English Word Osculant Definition Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.