Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 24
Orgue (n.) (Mil.) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite sim (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.
Orgue (n.) Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse. -- B. Jonson. -- Tennyson.
Orgue (n.) A series of sexual activities involving more than two couples in a group.
Orgue (n.) 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].
Orgyia (n.) (Zool.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.
Oricalche (n.) [Obs.] See Orichalch.
Costly oricalche from strange Phoenice. -- Spenser.
Orichalceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass. -- Maunder.
Orichalch (n.) A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.
Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.] -- W. Hamper.
Oriel (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] -- Cowell.
Oriel (n.) (Arch.) A bay window. See Bay window.
The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. -- Tennyson.
Note: There is no generally admitted difference between a bay window and an oriel. In the United States the latter name is often applied to bay windows which are small, and either polygonal or round; also, to such as are corbeled out from the wall instead of resting on the ground.
Oriel (n.) A projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall [syn: oriel, oriel window].
Oriency (n.) Brightness or strength of color. [R.] -- E. Waterhouse.
Orient (a.) 東方的，上升的，燦爛的 Rising, as the sun.
Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. -- Milton.
Orient (a.) Eastern; oriental. "The orient part." -- Hakluyt.
Orient (a.) Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." -- Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." -- Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." -- Milton.
Orient (n.) 東方，東方諸國 The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
[Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold. -- Tennyson.
Orient (n.) The countries of Asia or the East. -- Chaucer.
Best built city throughout the Orient. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Orient (n.) A pearl of great luster. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Orient (v. t.) 使朝東，使適應 To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.
Orient (v. t.) Hence: To acquaint with new surroundings or a new situation.
Orient (v. t.) Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.
Orient (v. t.) Same as Orientate, 2.
Orient (v. t.) To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; specif. (Surv.), to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
Orient (n.) The countries of Asia [syn: East, Orient].
Orient (n.) The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia [syn: eastern hemisphere, orient].
Orient (v.) Be oriented; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward" [syn: orient, point].
Orient (v.) Determine one's position with reference to another point; "We had to orient ourselves in the forest" [syn: orient, orientate] [ant: disorient, disorientate].
Orient (v.) Cause to point; "Orient the house towards the West"
Orient (v.) Familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances; "The dean of students tries to orient the freshmen."
Orient Adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" [syn: tailor, orient].
Orient, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 709
Housing Units (2000): 673
Land area (2000): 5.092565 sq. miles (13.189682 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.025585 sq. miles (2.656254 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.118150 sq. miles (15.845936 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55321
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.145410 N, 72.288689 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11957
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orient,
NY
Orient
Orient, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 269
Housing Units (2000): 102
Land area (2000): 0.124061 sq. miles (0.321317 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.124061 sq. miles (0.321317 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58800
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.804906 N, 83.154567 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 43146
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orient, OH
Orient
Orient, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000): 296
Housing Units (2000): 147
Land
area (2000): 0.750009 sq. miles (1.942515 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005603 sq. miles (0.014511 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.755612 sq. miles (1.957026 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56536
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.918839 N, 88.975973 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orient, IL
Orient
Orient, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 402
Housing Units (2000): 179
Land area (2000): 0.465587 sq. miles (1.205864 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.465587 sq. miles (1.205864 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59565
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.202702 N, 94.418794 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50858
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orient, IA
Orient
Orient, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 57
Housing Units (2000): 38
Land area (2000): 0.311181 sq. miles (0.805954 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000153 sq. miles (0.000395 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.311334 sq. miles (0.806349 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47460
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.901922 N, 99.088595 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57467
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orient, SD
Orient
Oriental (a.) Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries.
The sun's ascendant and oriental radiations. -- Sir T. Browne.
Oriental (n.) A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.
Oriental (n.) pl. (Eccl.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.
Oriental (a.) Denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia; "oriental civilization".
Oriental (n.) A member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans) [syn: Oriental, oriental person].
Oriental, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 875
Housing Units (2000): 576
Land area (2000): 1.146828 sq. miles (2.970272 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.226096 sq. miles (0.585587 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.372924 sq. miles (3.555859 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49380
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.031010 N, 76.687871 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28571
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oriental, NC
Oriental
Orientalism (n.) Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.
Orientalism (n.) Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. -- London Quart. Rev.
Orientalism (n.) The scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people [syn: Orientalism, Oriental Studies].
Orientalism (n.) The quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations; "orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas".
Orientalist (n.) An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
Orientalist (n.) One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists. -- Sir J. Shore.
Orientalist (n.) A specialist in oriental subjects.
Orientality (n.) The quality or state of being oriental or eastern. -- Sir T. Browne.
Orientalized (imp. & p. p.) of Orientalize.
Orientalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orientalize.
Orientalize (v. t.) To render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
Orientalize (v.) Make oriental in character; "orientalize your garden" [syn: orientalize, orientalise] [ant: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize].
Orientate (v. i.) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.
Orientated (imp. & p. p.) of Orientate.
Orientating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orientate.
Orientate (v. t.) To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.
Orientate (v. t.) To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
A crystal is orientated when placed in its proper position so as to exhibit its symmetry. -- E. S. Dana.
Orientate (v. t.) Same as orient [2].
Orientate (v.) [ T usually + adv/prep ] (Mainly UK) (Also mainly US orient) (AIM) 以…為目標；使面向；使適應 To aim something at someone or something, or make something suitable for a particular group of people.
// It is essential that the public sector orientates itself more towards the consumer.
Orientate (v.) Determine one's position with reference to another point; "We had to orient ourselves in the forest" [syn: orient, orientate] [ant: disorient, disorientate].
Orientate (v.) [ T usually + adv/prep ] (Find position)
Orientate yourself (Mainly UK) (US usually Orient) 確定自己的位置；認識方向 To discover your position in relation to what is around you.
// If you get lost while you are out walking, try to use the sun to orientate yourself.
Orientation (n.) The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.
Orientation (n.) The tendency of a revolving body, when suspended in a certain way, to bring the axis of rotation into parallelism with the earth's axis.
Orientation (n.) An aspect or fronting to the east; especially (Arch.), the placing of a church so that the chancel, containing the altar toward which the congregation fronts in worship, will be on the east end.
Orientation (n.) Fig.: A return to first principles; an orderly arrangement.
The task of orientation undertaken in this chapter. -- L. F. Ward.
Orientation (n.) The act of orienting.
Orientation (n.) An integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
Orientation (n.) Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
Orientation (n.) A predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" [syn: predilection, preference, orientation].
Orientation (n.) A person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships.
Orientation (n.) A course introducing a new situation or environment [syn: orientation course, orientation].
Orientness (n.) The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Orifice (n.) 【文】【幽】孔，口，洞 [C] A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound. -- Shak.
Etna was bored through the top with a monstrous orifice. -- Addison. Oriflamb
Compare: Oriflamb
Oriflamb (n. pl. Oriflambs) Archaic form of Oriflamme.
Orifice (n.) An aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity; "the orifice into the aorta from the lower left chamber of the heart" [syn: orifice, opening, porta].
Oriflamb (n.) Alt. of Oriflamme
Oriflamme (n.) 類似錦旗之物；旗幟；表徵；理想 The ancient royal standard of France.
Oriflamme (n.) A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." -- Longfellow.
And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. -- Macaulay.
Oriflamme (n.) An inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle.
Oriflamme (n.) A red or orange-red
flag used as a standard by early French kings.
Origan (n.) Alt. of Origanum
Origanum (n.) (Bot.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram ({O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram ({O. vulgare). -- Spenser.
Origanum (n.) Any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings.
Origenism (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved.
Origenist (n.) A follower of Origen of Alexandria.
Origin (n.) 起源，起因，根源；出身，血統 The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. -- Burke.
Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Origin (n.) (Anat.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Origin of coordinate axes (Math.), The point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.
Syn: Commencement; rise; source; spring; fountain; derivation; cause; root; foundation.
Usage: Origin, Source. Origin denotes the rise or commencement of a thing; source presents itself under the image of a fountain flowing forth in a continuous stream of influences. The origin of moral evil has been much disputed, but no one can doubt that it is the source of most of the calamities of our race.
I think he would have set out just as he did, with the origin of ideas -- the proper starting point of a grammarian, who is to treat of their signs. -- Tooke.
Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought. -- Waller.
Origin (n.) The place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: eginning, origin, root, rootage, source].
Origin (n.) Properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction].
Origin (n.) An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception].
Origin (n.) The point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero.
Origin (n.) The source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation".
Origin (n.) The descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock].
Originable (a.) Capable of being originated.
Original (a.) 最初的，原始的；有獨創性的 Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. -- Milton.
Original (a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.
Original (a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.
Original (a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.
Original sin (Theol.), The first sin of Adam, as related to its consequences to his descendants of the human race; -- called also total depravity. See Calvinism.
Original (n.) 原物，原作，原文 Origin; commencement; source.
It hath it original from much grief. -- Shak.
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. -- Addison.
Original (n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.
The Scriptures may be now read in their own original. -- Milton.
Original (n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.]
Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. -- C. G. Leland.
Original (n.) A person of marked eccentricity. [Colloq.]
Original (n.) (Zool. & Bot.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.
Original (a.) Preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement".
Original (a.) (Of e.g. information) Not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources".
Original (a.) Being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" [ant: unoriginal].
Original (a.) Not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French".
Original (n.) An original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made [syn: master, master copy, original].
Original (n.) Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original" [syn: original, archetype, pilot].
Original, () Contracts, practice, evidence. An authentic instrument of something, and which is to serve as a model or example to be copied or imitated. It also means first, or not deriving any authority from any other source as, original jurisdiction, original writ, original bill, and the like.
Original, () Originals are single or duplicate. Single, when there is but one; duplicate, when there are two. In the case of printed documents, all the impressions are originals, or in the nature of duplicate originals, and any copy will be primary evidence. Watson's Case, 2 Stark. R. 130; sed vide 14 Serg.& Rawle, 200; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2001.
Original, () When an original document is not evidence at common law, and a copy of such original is made evidence by an act of the legislature, the original is not, therefore, made admissible evidence by implication. 2 Camp. R. 121.
Originalist (n.) One who is original. [R.]
Originality (n.) The quality or state of being original. -- Macaulay.
Originality (n.) Ability to create new and original ideas, works of art, theories, etc.; ability to express oneself in an original manner; creativity; -- of people.
Originality (n.) The ability to think and act independently.
Originality (n.) The quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) [ant: unoriginality].
Originally (adv.) In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation.
God is originally holy in himself. -- Bp. Pearson.
Originally (adv.) At first; at the
origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written
by another hand. "Originally a half length [portrait]." -- Walpole.
Originally (adv.) In an original manner.
Originally (adv.) With reference to the origin or beginning [syn: primitively, originally, in the beginning].
Originally (adv.) Before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?" [syn: in the first place, earlier, in the beginning,
to begin with, originally].
Originalness (n.) The quality of being original; originality. [R.] -- Johnson.
Originant (a.) Originating; original. [R.]
An absolutely originant act of self will. -- Prof. Shedd.
Originary (a.) Causing existence; productive. [R.]
The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. -- Cheyne.
Originary (a.) Primitive; primary; original. [R.]
The grand originary right of all rights. -- Hickok.
Originated (imp. & p. p.) of Originate
Originating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Originate
Originate (v. t.) To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
A decomposition of the whole civil and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. -- Burke.
Originate (v. i.) To take first existence; to have origin or beginning; to begin to exist or act; as, the scheme originated with the governor and council.
Originate (v.) Come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" [syn: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow].
Originate (v.) Bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" [syn: originate, initiate, start].
Originate (v.) Begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta".
Origination (n.) The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." -- Keill.
What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. -- Hickok.
Origination (n.) Mode of production, or bringing into being.
This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. -- Ray.
Origination (n.) An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception].
Origination (n.) The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society" [syn: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration].
Originative (a.) Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating. -- H. Bushnell. -- O*rig"i*na*tive*ly, adv.
Originative (a.) Having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" [syn: creative, originative] [ant: uncreative].
Originative (a.) Containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal].
Originator (n.) One who originates.
Originator (n.) Someone who creates new things [syn: originator, conceiver, mastermind].
Orillon (n.) (Fort.) A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, -- found in old fortresses.
Oriel (n.) [Formerly written also oriol, oryal, oryall.] A gallery for minstrels. [Obs.] -- W. Hamper.
Oriel (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] -- Cowell.
Oriel (n.) (Arch.) A bay window. See Bay window.
The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. -- Tennyson.
Note: There is no generally admitted difference between a bay window and an oriel. In the United States the latter name is often applied to bay windows which are small, and either polygonal or round; also, to such as are corbeled out from the wall instead of resting on the ground.
Oriol (n.) See Oriel.
Oriole (n.) (Zool.) Any one of various species of Old World singing birds of the family Oriolidae. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.
Oriole (n.) (Zool.) In America, any one of several species of the genus Icterus, belonging to the family Icteridae. See Baltimore oriole, and Orchard oriole, under Orchard.
Crested oriole. (Zool.) See Cassican.
Oriole (n.) Mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black [syn: Old World oriole, oriole].
Oriole (n.) American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow [syn: New World oriole, American oriole, oriole].
Orion (n.) (Astron.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.
The flaming glories of Orion's belt. -- E. Everett.
Orion (n.) (Greek mythology) A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
Orion (n.) A constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel [syn: Orion, Hunter].
Orion, () Heb. Kesil; i.e., "the fool", the name of a constellation (Job 9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8) consisting of about eighty stars. The Vulgate renders thus, but the LXX. renders by Hesperus, i.e., "the evening-star," Venus. The Orientals "appear to have conceived of this constellation under the figure of an impious giant bound upon the sky." This giant was, according to tradition, Nimrod, the type of the folly that contends against God. In Isa. 13:10 the plural form of the Hebrew word is rendered "constellations."
Orion, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1713
Housing Units (2000): 715
Land area (2000): 0.861204 sq. miles (2.230509 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.861204 sq. miles (2.230509 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56601
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.353260 N, 90.377229 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61273
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orion, IL
Orion
Oriskany (a.) (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age.
Oriskany period, A subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or transitional in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.
Oriskany, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 1459
Housing Units (2000): 576
Land area (2000): 0.829936 sq. miles (2.149525 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.829936 sq. miles (2.149525 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55365
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.156669 N, 75.334699 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13424
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oriskany, NY
Oriskany
Orismological (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Of or pertaining to orismology.
Orismology (n.) That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.
Orison (n.) 祈禱 A prayer; a supplication. [Poetic] -- Chaucer. Shak.
Lowly
they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. --
Milton.
Orison (n.) Reverent petition to a deity [syn: {prayer},
{petition}, {orison}].
Orisont (n.) Horizon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Orc (n.) (Zool.) Any of several cetaceans, especialy the grampus ({Grampus griseus) of the dolphin family. [Written also ork and orch.] -- Milton.
An island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and orcs, and sea-mews' clang. -- Milton (Par. Lost xi. 835).
Orc (n.) (Mythology) A mythical monster of varying descriptions; an ogre.
Goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description. -- J. J. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
Orc (n.) The orca.
Ork (n.) (Zool. & Mythol.) See Orc.
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Orkneyan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands. "Orkneyan skerries." -- Longfellow.
Orle (n.) (Her.) A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
Orle (n.) (Her.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.
Orleans (n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.
Orleans (n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum. [Eng.]
Orleans (n.) A city on the Loire river in north central France; site of the siege of Orleans by the English (1428-1429).
Orleans (n.) A long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429 [syn: Orleans, siege of Orleans].
Orleans -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000): 484674
Housing Units (2000): 215091
Land area (2000): 180.556266 sq. miles (467.638563 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 169.658425 sq. miles (439.413285 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 350.214691 sq. miles (907.051848 sq. km)
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 29.972754 N, 90.059011 W
Headwords:
Orleans
Orleans, LA
Orleans Parish
Orleans Parish, LA
Orleans -- U.S. County in New York
Population (2000): 44171
Housing Units (2000): 17347
Land area (2000): 391.395514 sq. miles (1013.709684 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 426.073886 sq. miles (1103.526251 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 817.469400 sq. miles (2117.235935 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.257496 N, 78.238574 W
Headwords:
Orleans
Orleans, NY
Orleans County
Orleans County, NY
Orleans -- U.S. County in Vermont
Population (2000): 26277
Housing Units (2000): 14673
Land area (2000): 697.700121 sq. miles (1807.034942 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 23.442467 sq. miles (60.715709 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 721.142588 sq. miles (1867.750651 sq. km)
Located within: Vermont (VT), FIPS 50
Location: 44.844402 N, 72.218239 W
Headwords:
Orleans
Orleans, VT
Orleans County
Orleans County, VT
Orleans,
NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 425
Housing Units (2000): 240
Land area (2000): 0.605516 sq. miles (1.568278 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.605516 sq. miles (1.568278 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37420
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.131620 N, 99.455519 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68966
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orleans, NE
Orleans
Orleans, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 2273
Housing Units (2000): 992
Land area (2000): 1.568376 sq. miles (4.062075 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.568376 sq. miles (4.062075 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57024
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 38.660993 N, 86.453368 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 47452
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orleans, IN
Orleans
Orleans, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 583
Housing Units (2000): 509
Land area (2000): 1.001331 sq. miles (2.593434 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003670 sq. miles (0.009504 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.005001 sq. miles (2.602938 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59655
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.444583 N, 95.107798 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orleans, IA
Orleans
Orleans, MA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Massachusetts
Population (2000): 1716
Housing Units (2000): 1279
Land area (2000): 2.294931 sq. miles (5.943844 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.105068 sq. miles (0.272124 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.399999 sq. miles (6.215968 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51405
Located within: Massachusetts (MA), FIPS 25
Location: 41.789146 N, 69.997344 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 02653
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orleans, MA
Orleans
Orleans, VT -- U.S. village in Vermont
Population (2000): 826
Housing Units (2000): 400
Land area (2000): 0.685957 sq. miles (1.776620 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.685957 sq. miles (1.776620 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53575
Located within: Vermont (VT), FIPS 50
Location: 44.808594 N, 72.204166 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 05860
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orleans, VT
Orleans
Orlo (n.) [Sp.] (Mus.) A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards.
Orlop (n.) (Naut.) The lowest deck of a vessel, esp. of a ship of war, consisting of a platform laid over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are coiled. Ormuzd; Ormazd
Orlop (n.) The fourth or lowest deck [syn: orlop deck, orlop, fourth deck].
Ormer (n.) (Zool.) An abalone.
Ormer (n.) An abalone found near the Channel Islands [syn: ormer, sea-ear, Haliotis tuberculata].
Ormolu (n.) A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold.
Ormolu varnish, A varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appearance of gold.
Ormolu (n.) Brass that looks like gold; used to decorate furniture.
Ormuzd (prop. n.) The good principle, or being, of the ancient Persian religion; same as Ormazd. See also Ahriman.
Ormazd, Ormuzd or Ahura-Mazda, (n.) [Zend Ahuramazda.] (Zoroastrianism) The supreme deity, the embodiment of the principle of good, creator of the world, source of light, and guardian of mankind. He is the opponent of Ahriman, the spirit of evil, both being sprung from Eternity, or, according to another version, Ahriman being the offspring of a moment of doubt on the part of Ormazd. Ormazd is attended by angels and archangels. He is represented as a bearded man inclosed in a winged circle, a conception probably derived from the Assyrian representations of Ashur.
Ormuzd (n.) Chief deity of Zoroastrianism; source of light and embodiment of good [syn: Ormazd, Ormuzd, Ahura Mazda].
Orn (v. t.) To ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] -- Joye.