Webster's Dictionary 1828

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OCTODECIMAL

OCTODEC'IMAL, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and decem, ten.]In crystallography, designating a crystal whose prisms, or the middle part, has eight faces, and the two summits toge...

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OCTODENTATE

OCTODEN'TATE, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and dentatus, toothed.] Having eight teeth.

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OCTOFID

OC'TOFID, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and findo, to cleave.]In botany, cleft or separated into eight segments; as a calyx.

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OCTOGENARY

OC'TOGENARY, adjective [Latin octogenarius, from octogeni, eighty.] Of eighty years of age.OC'TOGENARY, noun A person eighty years of age.

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OCTOLOCULAR

OCTOLOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and locus, place.] In botany, having eight cells for seeds.

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OCTONARY

OC'TONARY, adjective [Latin octonarius.] Belonging to the number eight.

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OCTONOCULAR

OCTONOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and oculus, eye.] Having eight eyes.

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OCTOPETALOUS

OCTOPET'ALOUS, adjective [Gr. eight and a petal.] Having eight petals or flower-leaves.

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OCTORADIATED

OCTORA'DIATED, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and radius, ray.] Having eight rays.

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OCTOSPERMOUS

OCTOSPERM'OUS, adjective [Gr. eight, and seed.] Containing eight seeds.

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OCTOSTYLE

OC'TOSTYLE, noun [Gr. eight, and style.] In ancient architecture, the face of an edifice adorned with eight columns, or a range of eight columns.

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OCTOSYLLABLE

OCTOSYL'LABLE, adjective [Latin octo, eight, and syllaba, syllable.] Consisting of eight syllables.

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OCTUPLE

OC'TUPLE, adjective [Latin octuplus; octo, eight, and plico, to fold.] Eight-fold.

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OCULAR

OC'ULAR, adjective [Latin ocularius, from oculus, eye.]Depending on the eye; known by the eye; received by actual sight; as ocular proof; ocular demonstration or evidence.

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OCULARLY

OC'ULARLY, adverb By the eye, sight or actual view.

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OCULATE

OC'ULATE, adjective [Latin oculatus.] Furnished with eyes; knowing by the eye.

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OCULIFORM

OC'ULIFORM, adjective [Latin oculus, eye, and forma, form.]In the form of an eye; resembling the eye in form; as an oculiform pebble.

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OCULIST

OC'ULIST, noun [from Latin oculus, the eye.] One skilled in diseases of the eyes, or one who professes to cure them.Oculus beli, a semi-pellucid gem, a variety of agate of a gra...

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ODD

ODD, adjective1. Not even; not divisible into equal numbers; as one, three, five, seven, etc.Good luck lies in odd numbers.2. Left or remaining after the union, estimate or use ...

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ODDITY

ODD'ITY, noun1. Singularity; strangeness; as the oddity of dress, manners or shape; oddity of appearance.2. A singular person; in colloquial language. This man is an oddity

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ODDLY

ODD'LY, adverb1. Not evenly. [Little used.]2. Strangely; unusually; irregularly; singularly; uncouthly; as oddly dressed; oddly formed.A figure oddly turned.A black substance ly...

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ODDNESS

ODD'NESS, noun1. The state of being not even.2. Singularity; strangeness; particularity; irregularity; uncouthness; as the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event or ...

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ODDS

ODDS, noun s as z. [It is used both in the singular and plural.]1. Inequality; excess of either compared with the other; difference in favor of one and against another.Preeminen...

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ODE

ODE, noun [Latin ode; Gr.] A short poem or song; a poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem. The ode is of the greater or less kind; the less is char...

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ODIOUS

O'DIOUS, adjective [Latin odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.]1. Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odi...

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ODIOUSLY

O'DIOUSLY, adverb1. Hatefully; in a manner to deserve or excite hatred.2. Invidiously; so as to cause hate.

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ODIOUSNESS

O'DIOUSNESS, noun1. Hatefulness; the quality that deserves or may excite hatred; as the odiousness of sin.2. The state of being hated. [Not usual.]