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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ob-strūct'er, n. p. 903One who obstructs or hinders.Ob-strūc'tion, n. p. 903The act of obstructing, or the state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; obstacle; impediment; hindrance. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed or hindered…Ob-strūct'ive, a. p. 904Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.Ob-strūct'ive, n. p. 904Obstacle; impediment. [Obs.]Ob-strŭct'ive-ly, adv. p. 904In an obstructive manner.Ŏb'stru-ent, a. p. 904Blocking up; hindering.Ŏb'stru-ent, n. p. 904Any thing that obstructs or closes a passage; especially that which obstructs the natural passages in the body.Ob-stū'pe-făc'tion, n. p. 904The same as STUPEFACTION. [Obs.]Ob-stū'pe-fāc'tive, a. p. 904The same as STUPEFACTIVE. [Obs.]Ob-stū'pe-fy, v. t. p. 904The same as STUPEFY. [Obs.]Ob-tāin', v. t. p. 904To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to acquire. Some pray for riches; riches they obtain. Dryden. 2. To maintain a hold upon; to keep; to possess. [Obs. and rare.] His mother then is…Ob-tāin', v. i. p. 904To become held; to have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to become appropriate; to subsist; to become prevalent or general. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in…Ob-tāin'a-ble, a. p. 904Capable of being obtained.Ob-tāin'er, n. p. 904One who obtains.Ob-tāin'ment, n. p. 904The act of obtaining. Milton.Ob-tēct'ed, a. p. 904Covered; protected. [Obs.]Ob-tĕm'per-āte, v. t. p. 904To obey. [Obs.]Ob-tēnd’, v. t. p. 904To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of any thing; to pretend. Dryden.Ob-tēn'e-brā'tion, n. p. 904The act of darkening; a darkening; darkness. [Obs.] In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon.Ob-tēn'sion, n. p. 904The act of obtending. [Rare.]Ob-tēst', v. t. p. 904To call to witness; to invoke as a witness. 2. To beseech; to supplicate. “Obtest his clemency.” Dryden.Ob-tēst', v. i. p. 904To protest. [Rare.] Waterhouse.Ob'tes-tā'tion, n. p. 904The act of obtesting or supplicating; entreaty. The devil and his pupils . . . are encountered with nothing but feeble obtestations and unreasoning honors. Jeffrey. 2. The act of obtesting or…ŏb'trec-tā'tion, n. p. 904Slander; detraction; calumny. [Obs.] Barrow.Ob-trūde', v. t. p. 904To thrust in or upon; to introduce without warrant or solicitation. The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or not. Locke. 2. To offer with…Ob-trude', v. t. p. 904To enter without right; to make an officious or importunate offer; to thrust one's self forward with boldness or impertinence.Ob-trud'er, n. p. 904One who obtrudes.Ob-trūnʹcāte, v. t. p. 904To deprive of a limb; to lop. [Rare.]Ŏb'trun-cā'tion, n. p. 904The act of lopping or cutting off. [Rare.] Cockeram.Ob-tru′ sion, n. p. 904The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.Ob-tru'sion-ist, n. p. 904One who obtrudes; a person of obtrusive manners, or one who favors or excuses obtrusion. [Obs.]Ob-tru'sive, a. p. 904Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self among others, or to enter uninvited. Not obvious, nor obtrusive, but retired, The more desirable. Milton.Ob-tru'sive-ly, adv. p. 904In an obtrusive manner; by way of obtrusion.Ob-tūnd’, v. t. p. 904To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall. Harvey.Ob-tūndʹent, n. p. 904(Med.) A substance which sheathes or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter;—nearly the same as DEMULCENT. Forsyth.ŏb-tu-rā'tion, n. p. 904The act of stopping by spreading over or covering. [Obs.]Ob'tu-rā'tor, n. p. 904That which closes or stops up an entrance, cavity, or the like;—chiefly used in anatomy, usually prefixed adjectively to other words, to denote certain parts or organs, but often alone as a…Ŏb/tŭs-ăn’gu-lar, a. p. 904Having angles that are obtuse, or larger than right angles.Ob-tūse', a. p. 904Not pointed or acute; blunt;— applied to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. 2. Not having acute sensibility; dull; as, obtuse senses. Milton. A B C, obtuse…Ob-tūse'-āṅ'gled, a. p. 904Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.Ob-tūse'ly, adv. p. 904In an obtuse manner; dully.Ob-tūse'ness, n. p. 904The state or quality of being obtuse; bluntness; dullness.Ob-tū'sion, n. p. 904The act of making obtuse or blunt. 2. The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses.Ob-ūm'brāte, v. t. p. 904To shade; to darken; to cloud. [Rare.] Howell.Ŏb'um-brā'tion, n. p. 904Act of darkening or obscuring. [Rare.]Ob-ŭn'cous, a. p. 904Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.Ob-vĕn'tion, n. p. 904The act of happening incidentally; that which happens not regularly, but incidentally; something occasional. [Obs.] “Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other…Ob-vĕrs'ant, a. p. 904Conversant; familiar. [Obs.] Bacon.Ob-vĕrse', a. p. 904(Bot.) Having the base narrower than the top, as a leaf.ŏb'vĕrse, n. p. 904The face of a coin, having the principal image or inscription upon it; also, a projecting image or relief, as opposed to the corresponding depressed impression:—opposed to reverse. 2. Any thing…Ob-vĕrse'ly, adv. p. 904In an obverse form or manner.Ob-vĕr'sion, n. p. 904The act of turning toward or downward.Ob-vĕrt', v. t. p. 904To turn toward or downward.ŏb'vi-āte, v. t. p. 904To meet in the way; hence, to prevent by interception, or to remove at the beginning or in the outset; hence, to clear the way of. To lay down every thing in its full light, so as to obviate all…ŏb'vi-ā'tion, n. p. 904The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.ŏb'vi-oŭs, a. p. 904Meeting; opposed in front. [Obs.] I to the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton. 2. Open; exposed; liable; subject. “Obvious to dispute.” Milton. 3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily…ŏb'vi-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 904In a manner that is obvious; evidently; plainly.ŏb'vi-oŭs-ness, n. p. 904The state of being obvious or evident to the eye or the mind.ŏb'vo-lūte or ŏb'vo-lūt'ed, a. p. 904(Bot.) Arranged so as alternately to overlap, as the margins of one leaf those of the opposite one. Gray.ŏbŷ, n. p. 904Witchcraft among the African negroes. The same as OBEAH.