Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 23
Ordonnant (a.) Of or pertaining to ordonnance. -- Dryden.
Ordovian (a. & n.) (Geol.) Ordovician.
Ordovician (a.) (Geol.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian.
Ordovician (n.) The Ordovician formation.
Ordovician (n.) From 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds [syn: Ordovician, Ordovician period].
Ordure (n.) Dung; excrement; faeces. -- Shak.
Ordure (n.) Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Ordure (n.) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection].
Ordurous (a.) Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. -- Drayton.
Ore (n.) Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ore (n.) 礦；礦石；礦砂 [C] [U] The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
Ore (n.) (Mining) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
Ore (n.) Metal; as, the liquid ore. [R.] -- Milton.
Ore hearth, A low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; -- also called Scotch hearth. -- Raymond.
Ore (n.) A mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined.
Ore (n.) A monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona.
Oread (n.) (Class. Myth.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. -- Milton.
Oread (n.) (Greek mythology) One of the mountain nymphs.
Oreades (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
Orectic (a.) (Philos.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
Oregon grape () (Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
Oregon grape (n.) Small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries [syn: Oregon grape, Mahonia nervosa].
Oregon grape (n.) Ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries [syn: Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape, hollygrape, mountain grape, holly- leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium].
Oreide (n.) See Oroide.
Oroide (n.) An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy. [Written also oreide.]
Oreide (n.) Alloy of copper and tin and zinc; used in imitation gold jewelry [syn: oroide, oreide].
Oreodon (n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
Oreodont (a.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
Oregon (n.) 美國奧勒崗州 A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: Oregon, Beaver State, OR]
Oregon, () The name of a territory of the United States of America. This territory was established by the act of congress of August 14, 1848; and this act is the fundamental law of the territory.
Oregon, () The executive power and authority in and over said territory of Oregon shall be vested in a governor who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successors shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the president of the United States. The governor shall reside within said territory, shall be commander-in-chief of the militia thereof, shall perform the duties and receive the emoluments of superintendent of Indian affairs; he may grant pardons and respites for offences against the laws of said territory, and reprieves for offences against the laws of the United States until the decision of the president can be made thereon; he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under the laws of the said territory, where, by law, such commissions shall be required, and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
Oregon, () There shall be a secretary of said territory, who shall reside therein, and hold his office for five years, unless sooner removed by the president of the United States; he shall record and preserve all the laws and proceedings of the legislative assembly hereinafter constituted, and all the acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department; he shall transmit one copy of the laws and journals of the legislative assembly within thirty days after the end of each session, and one copy of the executive proceedings and official correspondence, semi-annually, on the first days of January and July, in each year, to the president of the United States, and two copies of the laws to the president of the senate and to the speaker of the house of representatives for the use of congress. And in case of the death, removal, resignation, or absence of the governor from the territory, the secretary shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to execute and perform all the powers and duties of the governor during such vacancy or absence, or until another governor shall be duly appointed and qualified to fill such vacancy.
Oregon, () The legislative power and authority of said territory shall be vested in a legislative assembly. The legislative assembly shall consist of a council and house of representatives. The council shall consist of nine members, having the qualifications of voters as hereinafter prescribed, whose term of service shall continue three years. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into, three classes. The seats. of the members of council of the first. class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year; of the second class at the expiration of the second year; and of the third class at the expiration of the third year, so that one-third may be chosen every year, and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, the same shall be filled at the next ensuing election. The house of representatives shall, at its first session, consist of eighteen members, possessing the same qualifications as prescribed for members of the council, and whose term of service shall continue one year. The number of representatives may be increased by the legislative assembly from time to time, in proportion to the increase of qualified voters: Provided, That the whole number shall never exceed thirty. An apportionment shall be made, as nearly equal as practicable, among the several counties or districts, for the election of the council and representatives, giving to each section of the territory representation in the ratio of its qualified voters, as nearly as may be. And the members of the council and of the house of representatives shall reside in and be inhabitants of the district, or county or counties, for which they may be elected respectively. Previous to the first election, the governor shall cause a census or enumeration of the inhabitants and qualified voters of the several counties and districts of the territory to be taken by such persons, and in such mode as the governor shall designate and appoint; and the persons so appointed shall receive a reasonable compensation therefor; and the first election shall be held at such time and places, and be conducted in such manner, both as to the person who shall superintend such election, and the returns thereof, as the governor shall appoint and direct; and he shall, at the same time, declare the number of members of the council and house of representatives to which each of the counties or districts shall be entitled under this act; and the governor shall, by his proclamation, give at least sixty days previous notice of such apportionment, and of the time, places, and manner of holding such election. The persons having the highest number of legal votes in each of said council districts for members of the council shall be declared by the governor to be duly elected to the council; and the persons having the highest number of legal votes for the house of representatives shall be declared by the governor to be duly elected members of said house; Provided, That, in case two or more persons voted for shall have an equal number of votes and in case a vacancy shall otherwise occur, in either branch of the legislative assembly, the governor shall order a new election, and the persons thus elected to the legislative assembly shall meet at such place, and on such day, within ninety days after such elections, as the governor shall appoint; but, thereafter, the time, place, and manner of holding and conducting all elections by the people, and the apportioning the representation in the several counties or districts to the council and house of representatives, according to the number of qualified voters, shall be prescribed by law, as well as the day of the commencement of the regular sessions of the legislative assembly: Provided, That no session in any one year shall exceed the term of sixty days, except the first session, which shall not be prolonged beyond one hundred days.
Oregon, () Every white male inhabitant, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said territory at the time of the passage of this act, and shall possess the qualifications hereinafter prescribed, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office, at all subsequent elections, shall be such as shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens United States above the age of twenty-one years, and those above that age who shall have declared, on oath, their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States, and the provisions of this act: And, further, provided, That no officer, soldier, seaman, or marine, or other person in the army or navy of the United States, or attached to troop's in the service of the United States, shall be allowed to vote in said territory, by reason of being on service therein, unless said territory is and has been for the period of six months, his permanent domicil: Provided, further, That no person belonging to the army or navy of the United States shall ever be elected to, or hold any civil office or appointment in, said territory.
Oregon, () The legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tar shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents. All the laws passed by the legislative assembly shall be submitted to the congress of the United States, and, if disapproved, shall be null and of no effect: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to give power to incorporate a bank, or any institution with banking powers, or to borrow money in the name of the territory, or to pledge the faith of the people of the same for any loan whatever, either directly or indirectly. No charter granting any privilege of making, issuing, or putting into circulation any notes or bills in the likeness of bank notes, or any bonds scrip, drafts, bills of exchange, or obligations, or granting any other banking powers or privileges, shall be passed by the legislative assembly; nor shall the establishment of any branch or agency of any such corporation, derived from other authority, be allowed in said territory; nor shall said legislative assembly authorize the issue of any obligation, scrip, or evidence of debt by said territory, in any mode or manner whatever, except certificates for services to said territory; and all such laws, or any law or laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be utterly null and void; and all taxes shall be equal and uniform and no distinction shall be made in the assessments between different kinds of property, but the assessments shall be according to the value thereof. To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act, such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object and that shall be expressed in the title.
Oregon, () All township, district, and county, officers, not herein otherwise provided for, shall be appointed or elected, in such manner as shall be provided by the legislative assembly of the territory of Oregon.
Oregon, () No member of the legislative assembly shall hold, or be
appointed to, any office which shall have been created, or the salary or emoluments of which shall have been increased, while he was a member, during the term for which he was elected, and for one year after the expiration of such term; but this restriction shall not be applicable to members of the first legislative assembly; and no person holding a commission, or appointment under the United States shall be a member of the legislative assembly, or shall hold any office under the government of said territory.
Oregon, () The 16th section of the act authorizes the qualified voters to elect a delegate to the house of representatives of the United States, who shall have and exercise all the rights and privileges as have been heretofore exercised and enjoyed by the delegates from the other territories of the United States to the said house of representatives. Vide Courts of the United States.
Oregon -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 10344
Housing Units (2000): 4997
Land area (2000): 791.403041 sq. miles (2049.724380 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.182945 sq. miles (0.473825 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 791.585986 sq. miles (2050.198205 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 36.636805 N, 91.427323 W
Headwords:
Oregon
Oregon, MO
Oregon County
Oregon County, MO
Oregon, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 7514
Housing Units (2000): 2895
Land area (2000): 3.065479 sq. miles (7.939553 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.065479 sq. miles (7.939553 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60200
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 42.923899 N, 89.382304 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53575
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oregon, WI
Oregon
Oregon, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 935
Housing Units (2000): 395
Land area (2000): 1.004343 sq. miles (2.601237 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.004343 sq. miles (2.601237 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54848
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.986632 N, 95.142501 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64473
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oregon, MO
Oregon
Oregon, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 19355
Housing Units (2000): 8025
Land area (2000): 29.379015 sq. miles (76.091297 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.711606 sq. miles (22.562954 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 38.090621 sq. miles (98.654251 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58730
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.649094 N, 83.461514 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43605 43616 43618
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oregon, OH
Oregon
Oregon, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 4060
Housing Units (2000): 1789
Land area (2000): 2.031493 sq. miles (5.261543 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.079135 sq. miles (0.204958 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.110628 sq. miles (5.466501 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56484
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.013061 N, 89.333030 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61061
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oregon, IL
Oregon
Oreographic (a.) Of or pertaining to oreography.
Oreography (n.) The science of mountains; orography.
Oreoselin (n.) A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
Oreosoma (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
Oreweed (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Orewood (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Orf (n.) Alt. of Orfe
Orfe (n.) A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.
Orfgild (n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
Orfray (n.) The osprey.
Orfrays (n.) See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Orgal (n.) See Argol.
Organ (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
Organ (n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.
Organ (n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
Organ (n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
Organ (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
Organ (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
Organdie (n.) Alt. of Organdy
Organdy (n.) A kind of transparent light muslin.
Organic (a.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.
Organic (a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.
Organic (a.) Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
Organic (a.) Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
Organic (a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
Organical (a.) Organic.
Organically (adv.) In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally.
Organicalness (n.) The quality or state of being organic.
Organicism (n.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.
Organific (a.) Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs.
Organism (n.) Organic structure; organization.
Organism (n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Organist (n.) One who plays on the organ.
Organist (n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.
Organista (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
Organity (n.) Organism.
Organizability (n.) Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.
Organizable (a.) Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
Organization (n.) 組織，結構，團體 The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.
Organization (n.) The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition.
Organization (n.) That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism
Organization (n.) an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life.
Organization (n.) (UK usually Organization) (Group) (B1) [ C ] 組織；機構 A group of people who work together in an organized way for a shared purpose.
// The World Health Organization.
// The article was about the international aid organizations.
Organization (n.) (Arrangement) (B1) [ U ] 安排；組織；籌劃 The planning of an activity or event.
// He didn't want to be involved in the organization of/for the conference, although he was willing to attend and speak.
Organization (n.) (System) (C1) [ U ] 組織；安排 The way in which something is done or arranged.
Organized (imp. & p. p.) of Organize
Organizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Organize
Organize (v. t.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
Organize (v. t.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
Organizer (n.) [C] 組織者；（工會等的）組織幹部；【生】組織導體，組織原；萬用記事本 One who organizes.
Organizer (n.) A person who brings order and organization to an enterprise; "she was the organizer of the meeting" [syn: {organizer}, {organiser}, {arranger}].
Organizer (n.) Someone who enlists workers to join a union [syn: {organizer}, {organiser}, {labor organizer}].
Organizer (n.) A lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc. [syn: {personal digital assistant}, {PDA}, {personal organizer}, {personal organiser}, {organizer}, {organiser}].
Organling (n.) A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.
Organo- () A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.
Organogen (n.) A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.
Organogenesis (n.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
Organogenesis (n.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
Organogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to organogenesis.
Organogeny (n.) Organogenesis.
Organographic (a.) Alt. of Organographical
Organographical (a.) Of or pertaining to organography.
Organographist (n.) One versed in organography.
Organography (n.) A description of the organs of animals or plants.
Organoleptic (a.) Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.
Organological (a.) Of or relating to organology.
Organology (n.) The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.
Organology (n.) That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.
Organometallic (a.) Metalorganic.
Organon (n.) Alt. of Organum
Organum (n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.
Organonymy (n.) The designation or nomenclature of organs.
Organophyly (n.) The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly.
Organoplastic (a.) Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.
Organoscopy (n.) Phrenology.
Organotrophic (a.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.
Organule (n.) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense.
Organy (n.) See Origan.
Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.
Orgasm (n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.
Orgeat (n.) A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.
Orgeis (n.) See Organling.
Orgiastic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.
Orgy (n.; pl. Orgies.) A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
Orgy (n.; sing. Orgies.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Usually in the plural form.
Note: [The singular is rarely used in this sense.]
As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. -- Drayton.
Orgy (n.; sing. Orgies.) Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse. -- B. Jonson. -- Tennyson.
Orgy (n.; sing. Orgies.) A series of sexual activities involving more than two couples in a group.
Orgy (n.; sing. Orgies.) Hence: An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks.
Orgy (n.) Any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge].
Orgy (n.) Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity.
Orgy (n.) A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry].
Orgillous (a.) Proud; haughty. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Orgue (n.) (Mil.) Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.