Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter O - Page 25
Ornament (n.) 裝飾，裝飾，教堂用品 That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. -- 1 Pet. iii. 4.
Like that long-buried body of the king Found lying with his urns and ornaments. -- Tennyson.
Ornament (n.) (C2) [ C ] 裝飾物，飾品 An object that is beautiful rather than useful.
// A glass ornament.
// Garden ornaments such as statues and fountains.
Ornament (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 點綴；裝飾；擺設 Decoration that is added to increase the beauty of something.
// The building relies on clever design rather than on ornament for its impressive effect.
Ornament (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 裝飾，點綴 To add decoration to something.
// She ornamented her letters with little drawings in the margin.
Ornamented (imp. & p. p.) of Ornament.
Ornamenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ornament.
Ornament (v. t.) 裝飾，修飾 To adorn; to deck; to embellish; to beautify; as, to ornament a room, or a city.
Syn: See Adorn.
Ornament (n.) Something used to beautify [syn: {decoration}, {ornament}, {ornamentation}].
Ornament (v.) Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: {decorate}, {adorn}, {grace}, {ornament}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Ornament (v.) Be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree."
Ornament, () An embellishment. In questions arising as to which of two things is to be considered as principal or accessory, it is the rule, that an ornament shall be considered as an accessory. Vide Accessory; Principal.
Ornamental (a.) 裝飾性的，裝飾的，裝飾用的 Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. -- Sir T. Browne.
Ornamental (a.) Serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative" [syn: {cosmetic}, {decorative}, {ornamental}].
Ornamental (n.) 裝飾物 Any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value.
Ornamentally (adv.) 裝飾 [性] 地 By way of ornament.
Ornamentally (adv.) In an ornamental, nonfunctional manner.
Ornamentation (n.) 裝飾；裝飾品 The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.
Ornamentation (n.) That which ornaments. -- C. Kingsley.
Ornamentation (n.) The ornaments embellishing an object, collectively; as, each room of the palace had a strikingly different ornamentation.
Ornamentation (n.) The state of being ornamented.
Ornamentation (n.) Something used to beautify [syn: decoration, ornament, ornamentation].
Ornamentation (n.) The act of adding extraneous decorations to something [syn: ornamentation, embellishment].
Ornamenter (n.) 裝飾者 One who ornaments; a decorator.
Ornate (a.) 裝飾華麗的；過分修飾的；（文體等）華麗的，華美的 Elaborately adorned or decorated; beautifully sumptuous. "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." -- Milton.
Ornate (a.) Finely finished, as a style of composition.
A graceful and ornate rhetoric. -- Milton.
Ornate (v. t.) To adorn; to honor. [R.]
They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. -- Latimer.
Ornate (a.) Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: flowery, ornate].
Ornately (adv.) 裝飾過分地；詞藻華麗地 In an ornate manner. -- Sir T. More.
Ornately (adv.) In an ornate manner; "the cradle was ornately carved."
Ornateness (n.) 誇張之言，豪語，豪言壯語 The quality of being ornate.
Ornateness (n.) High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric].
Ornateness (n.) An ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated [syn: ornateness, elaborateness].
Ornature (n.) 裝飾；裝飾品 Decoration; ornamentation. [R.] -- Holinshed.
Ornature (n.) (Rare) Ornament, adornment, decoration; embellishment, finery.
Ornery (a.) 下等的，低劣的，故意刁難的 Having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: {cantankerous}, {crotchety}, {ornery}].
Ornery (a.) 脾氣壞的；愛爭吵的 Likely to get angry and argue with people.
// He had been in an ornery mood all day, arguing with everyone who got in his way.
Ornithic (a.) Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils. -- Owen.
Ornithichnite (n.) (Paleon.) The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone. -- Hitchcock.
Ornithichnology (n.) (Paleon.) The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. -- Hitchcock.
Ornitho- ()A combining form fr. Gr. 'o`rnis, 'o`rniqos, a bird.
Ornithodelphia (n. pl.) Same as Monotremata. -- Or`ni*tho*del"phid, a.
Ornithoidichnite (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil track resembling that of a bird. -- Hitchcock.
Ornitholite (n.) (Paleon.) The fossil remains of a bird.
Ornitholite (n.) (Paleon.) A stone of various colors bearing the figures of birds. Ornithologic
Ornithologic (a.) Alt. of Ornithological.
Ornithological (a.) Of or pertaining to ornithology ; as, her ornithological interests.
Ornithological (a.) Of or relating to ornithology; "her ornithological interests."
Ornithologist (n.) One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.
Ornithologist (n.) A zoologist who studies birds [syn: ornithologist, bird watcher].
Ornithology (n.) 鳥類學 That branch of zoology which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.
Ornithology (n.) A treatise or book on this science.
Ornithology (n.) The branch of zoology that studies birds.
Ornithomancy (n.) Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science. -- De Quincey.
Ornithon (n.) An aviary; a poultry house. -- Weale.
Ornithopappi (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extinct order of birds. It includes only the Archaeopteryx.
Ornithopoda (n. pl.) (Paleon.) An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.
Ornithopoda (n.) Widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) [syn: Euronithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, euronithopod, Ornithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda].
Ornithorhynchus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of monotremes including the platypus ({Ornithorhyncus anatinus). See Duck mole, under Duck.
Ornithorhynchus (n.) Type genus of the family Ornithorhynchidae [syn: Ornithorhynchus, genus Ornithorhynchus].
Ornithosauria (prop. n. pl.) (Paleon.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also {Pterosauria"> {Pterosauria.
Ornithoscelida (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of extinct Reptilia, intermediate in structure (especially with regard to the pelvis) between reptiles and birds. -- Or`ni*tho*scel"i*dan, a.
Ornithoscopy (n.) Observation of birds and their habits. [R.] -- De Quincey.
Ornithotomical (a.) Of or pertaining to ornithotomy.
Ornithotomist (n.) One who is skilled in ornithotomy.
Ornithotomy (n.) The anatomy or dissection of birds.
Orographic (a.) Alt. of Orographical.
Orographical (a.) Of or pertaining to orography.
Orography (n.) That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.
Orography (n.) The science of mountains [syn: orology, orography].
Orohippus (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of American Eocene mammals allied to the horse, but having four toes in front and three behind.
Oroide (n.) An alloy, chiefly of copper and zinc or tin, resembling gold in color and brilliancy. [Written also oreide.]
Oroide (n.) Alloy of copper and tin and zinc; used in imitation gold jewelry [syn: oroide, oreide].
Orological (a.) Of or pertaining to orology.
Orologist (n.) One versed in orology.
Orology (n.) The science or description of mountains.
Orology (n.) The science of mountains [syn: orology, orography].
Orotund (a.) Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.
Orotund (n.) The orotund voice or utterance. -- Rush.
Orotund (a.) Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid].
Orotund (a.) (Of sounds) Full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped].
Orotundity (n.) The orotund mode of intonation.
Orphaline (n.) See Orpheline.
Orphan (n.) [Unix] A process whose parent has died; one inherited by init(1). Compare {zombie}.
Orphan (a.) 無雙親的，無父（或母）的，孤兒的；（幼小動物）失去母獸的 Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
Orphan (n.) [C] 孤兒；失去母獸的小動物 A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
{Orphans' court} (Law), A court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards. -- Bouvier.
Orphan (v. t.) 使成孤兒 [H] To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents. -- Young.
Orphaned (imp. & p. p.) of Orphan.
Orphaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orphan.
Orphan (n.) A child who has lost both parents.
Orphan (n.) Someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision.
Orphan (n.) The first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column.
Orphan (n.) A young animal without a mother.
Orphan (v.) Deprive of parents.
Orphan (n.) A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.
Orphan (n.) A minor or infant who has lost both of his or her parents. Sometimes the term is applied to such a person who has lost only one of his or her parents. 3 Mer. 48; 2 Sim. & Stu. 93; Lo & Man. Inst. B. 1, t. 2, c. 1. See Hazzard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. 14, pages 188, 1 89, for a correspondence between the Hon. Joseph Hopkinson and ex-president J. Q. Adams as to the meaning of the word Orphan, and Rob. 247.
Orphanage (n.) 孤兒院，孤兒身份 The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
Orphanage (n.) An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
Orphanage (n.) The condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" [syn: orphanage, orphanhood].
Orphanage (n.) A public institution for the care of orphans [syn: orphanage, orphans' asylum].
Orphanage, () Eng. law. By the custom of London, when a freeman of that city dies, his estate is divided into three parts, as follows: one third part to the widow; another, to the children advanced by him in his lifetime, which is called the orphanage; and the other third part may be by him disposed of by will. Now, however, a freeman may dispose of his estate as he pleases; but in cases of intestacy, the statute of distribution expressly excepts and reserves the custom of London. Lov. on Wills, 102, 104; Bac. Ab. Custom of London, C. Vide Legitime.
Orphancy (n.) Orphanhood. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Orphanet (n.) A little orphan. -- Drayton.
Orphanhood (n.) The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.
Orphanhood (n.) The condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" [syn: orphanage, orphanhood].
Orphanism (n.) Orphanhood. [R.]
Orphanotrophism (n.) The care and support of orphans. [R.] -- Cotton Mather (1711).
Orphanotrophy (n.) A hospital for orphans. [R.] -- A. Chalmers.
Orphanotrophy (n.) The act of supporting orphans. [R.]
Orpharion (n.) (Mus.) An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind. [Spelt also orpheoreon.]
Orphean (a.) Of or pertaining to Orpheus, the mythic poet and musician; as, Orphean strains. -- Cowper.
Orpheline (n.) An orphan. [Obs.] -- Udcll.
Orpheus (n.) (Gr. Myth.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Orpheus (n.) (Greek mythology) A great musician; when his wife Eurydice died he went to Hades to get her back but failed.
Orphic (a.) Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns.
Orphic (a.) Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus.
Orphic (a.) Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic].
Orphrey (n.) A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics. -- Pugin.
Orphrey (n.) A richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment.
Orpiment (n.) (Chem.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing.
Our orpiment and sublimed mercurie. -- Chaucer.
Red orpiment, realgar; the red sulphide of arsenic.
Yellow orpiment, King's yellow.
Orpiment (n.) A yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic.
Orpin (n.) A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
Orpin (n.) (Bot.) The orpine.
Orpine (n.) (Bot.) A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. [Written also orpin.]
Orpin (n.) Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers [syn: orpine, orpin, livelong, live-forever, Sedum telephium].
Orrach (n.) See Orach.
Orreries (n. pl. ) of Orrery.
Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
Orris (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Iris ({Iris Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.
Orris pea (Med.), An issue pea made from orris root.
Orris root, The fragrant rootstock of the orris.
Orris (n.) A sort of gold or silver lace. -- Johnson.
Orris (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them. Orsedew
Orris (n.) German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome [syn: Florentine iris, orris, Iris germanica florentina, Iris florentina].
Orris (n.) Fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines [syn: orrisroot, orris].
Orsedew (n.) Alt. of Orsedue.
Orsedue (n.) Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.
Orseille (n.) [F.] See Archil.
Orsellic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid. [Formerly written also orseillic.]
Orsellinic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.
Orts (n. pl. ) of Ort.
Ort (n.) A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural. -- Milton.
Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. -- Shak.
Ortalidian (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.
Orthid (n.) (Zool.) A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.
Orthis (n.) (Zool.) An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.
Orthite (n.) (Min.) A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.
Ortho- () A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.
Ortho- () (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively). designating:
Ortho- () (Inorganic Chem.) The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal.
Ortho- () (Organic Chem.) Connection with, or affinity to, one variety of isomerism, characteristic of the benzene compounds; -- contrasted with meta- or para-; as, the ortho position; hence, designating any substance showing such isomerism; as, an ortho compound.
Note: In the graphic representation of the benzene nucleus (see Benzene nucleus, under Benzene), provisionally adopted, any substance exhibiting double substitution in adjacent and contiguous carbon atoms, as 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 4 & 5, etc., is designated by ortho-; as, orthoxylene; any substance exhibiting substitution of two carbon atoms with one intervening, as 1 & 3, 2 & 4, 3 & 5, 4 & 6, etc., by meta-; as, resorcin or metaxylene; any substance exhibiting substitution in opposite parts, as 1 & 4, 2 & 5, 3 & 6, by para-; as, hydroquinone or paraxylene.
Orthocarbonic (a.) (Chem.) Designating a complex ether, C.(OC2H5)4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4.
Orthocenter (n.) (Geom.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect.
Orthoceras (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell.
The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.
Orthoceratite (n.) (Zool.) An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.