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  • English Word Obligor Definition The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another.
  • English Word Obliquation Definition The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes.
  • English Word Obliquation Definition Deviation from moral rectitude.
  • English Word Oblique Definition Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
  • English Word Oblique Definition Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
  • English Word Oblique Definition Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
  • English Word Oblique Definition An oblique line.
  • English Word Oblique Definition To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
  • English Word Oblique Definition To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
  • English Word Oblique-angled Definition Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.
  • English Word Obliqued Definition of Oblique
  • English Word Obliquely Definition In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.
  • English Word Obliqueness Definition Quality or state of being oblique.
  • English Word Obliquing Definition of Oblique
  • English Word Obliquities Definition of Obliquity
  • English Word Obliquity Definition The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.
  • English Word Obliquity Definition Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.
  • English Word Oblite Definition Indistinct; slurred over.
  • English Word Obliterate Definition To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
  • English Word Obliterate Definition Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.
  • English Word Obliterate Definition To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
  • English Word Obliterated Definition of Obliterate
  • English Word Obliterating Definition of Obliterate
  • English Word Obliteration Definition The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction.
  • English Word Obliterative Definition Tending or serving to obliterate.
  • English Word Oblivion Definition Official ignoring of offenses; amnesty, or general pardon; as, an act of oblivion.
  • English Word Oblivion Definition The act of forgetting, or the state of being forgotten; cessation of remembrance; forgetfulness.
  • English Word Oblivious Definition Evincing oblivion; forgetful.
  • English Word Oblivious Definition Promoting oblivion; causing forgetfulness.
  • English Word Oblocutor Definition A disputer; a gainsayer.