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  • English Word Ostia Definition of Ostium
  • English Word Ostiary Definition The mouth of a river; an estuary.
  • English Word Ostiary Definition One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
  • English Word Ostic Definition Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians.
  • English Word Ostiole Definition The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate.
  • English Word Ostiole Definition Any small orifice.
  • English Word Ostitis Definition See Osteitis.
  • English Word Ostium Definition An opening; a passage.
  • English Word Ostler Definition See Hostler.
  • English Word Ostleress Definition A female ostler.
  • English Word Ostlery Definition See Hostelry.
  • English Word Ostmen Definition East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called.
  • English Word Ostosis Definition Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.
  • English Word Ostracea Definition A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.
  • English Word Ostracean Definition Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.
  • English Word Ostracion Definition A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.
  • English Word Ostraciont Definition A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.
  • English Word Ostracism Definition Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
  • English Word Ostracism Definition Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
  • English Word Ostracite Definition A fossil oyster.
  • English Word Ostracize Definition To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
  • English Word Ostracize Definition To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
  • English Word Ostracized Definition of Ostracize
  • English Word Ostracizing Definition of Ostracize
  • English Word Ostracoda Definition Ostracoidea.
  • English Word Ostracodermi Definition A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.
  • English Word Ostracoid Definition Of or pertaining to the Ostracoidea.
  • English Word Ostracoid Definition One of the Ostracoidea.
  • English Word Ostracoidea Definition An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about.
  • English Word Ostrea Definition A genus of bivalve Mollusca which includes the true oysters.