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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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Ō'pen-hănd'ed, a. p. 914Generous; liberal; munificent. Rowe.Ō'pen-hĕad'ed, a. p. 914Bare-headed. [Obs.]Ō'pen-heärt'ed, a. p. 914Candid; frank; generous. Dryden.Ō'pen-heärt'ed-ly, adv. p. 914With frankness; without reserve.Ō'pen-heärt/ed-ness, n. p. 914Frankness; candor; -sincerity; munificence; generosity.Ō'pen-ing, n. p. 914A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a hole or perforation. 2. Beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech. The opening of your glory was like that of light.…Ō'pen-ly, adv. p. 914In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy; as, to avow our sins and follies openly. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness…ō'pen-mouthed, a. p. 914Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous; as, an open-mouthed lion. L'Estrange.Ō'pen-ness, n. p. 914The quality, state, or condition of being open; freedom from secrecy, disguise, ambiguity, or obscurity; plainness; candor; mildness, as of the weather.Ō'pen-tīde, n. p. 914See OPE-TIDE.Ŏ'pen-work, n. p. 914Any thing manufactured so as to show openings through its substance; work filled with openings or perforations.ŏp'er-ā, n. p. 914A musical drama consisting of airs, choruses, recitations, &c., enriched with magnificent scenery, machinery, and other decorations, and representing some passionate action. Moore. 2. The score of a…ŏp'er-ā-ble, a. p. 914Practicable. [Obs.] Browne.Ŏp'er-ā-glāss, n. p. 914A short telescope with concave eye-lenses of low power, usually made double, or with a tube and set of glasses for each eye, and used at theaters and other places of public amusement to see objects…Ŏp'er-ă-hăt, n. p. 914A hat which folds up into a narrow space. Simmonds.Ŏp'er-ă-house, n. p. 914A house or theater for the representation of operas.ŏp'er-ăm'e-ter, n. p. 914An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter.ŏp'er-ance or ŏp'er-an-cy, n. p. 914The act of operating or working; operation. [Rare.] He never denies, yet never admits, it any separate operancy. Coleridge.ŏp'er-ant, a. p. 914Having power to produce an effect; operative. [Obs.] Shak.Ōp'er-ant, n. p. 914One who operates; an operator. [Rare.] Coleridge.Ŏp'er-āte, v. i. p. 914To perform a work or labor; to act; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical. 2. To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to…Ŏp'er-āte, v. t. p. 914To produce as an effect; to cause; to occasion. The same cause would operate a diminution of the value of stock. Hamilton. 2. To put into or to continue in operation or activity; to work; as, to…Ŏp'er-āt'ic or Ŏp'er-āt'ic-al, a. p. 914Pertaining to the opera; resembling the opera; appropriate to, or designed for, the opera.ŏp'er-ā'tion, n. p. 914The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach. Locke.…ŏp'er-a-tīve, a. p. 914Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects. It holds in all operative principles, especially in morality. South. 2. Efficient in work…Ōp'er-a-tīve, n. p. 914A laboring man; a laborer, artisan, or workman in manufactories.Ōp'er-a-tīve-ly, adv. p. 914In an operative manner.Ōp'er-ā'tor, n. p. 914One who, or that which, operates; one who, or that which, produces an effect. 2. (Surg.) The person who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments; as, a skillful…Ōp'er-a-to-ry, n. p. 914A laboratory. [Obs.]O-pĕr'eu-lar, a. p. 914(Bot.) Pertaining or belonging to the operculum. 2. (Ichth.) Pertaining or belonging to the operculum or gill-cover, which consists usually of four pieces, the anterior of which, being articulated…O-pĕr'eu-late or O-pĕr'eu-lā'ted, a. p. 914(Bot.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses. 2. (Ichth.) Having an operculum, or apparatus for protecting the gills; — said of fishes or their gills.O-pĕr'cu-li-fōrm or Ō'per-cū'li-fōrm, a. p. 914Having the form of a lid or cover.O-pĕr'eu-lŭm, n. p. 914(Bot.) (a.) The lid of a pitcher-form leaf. (b.) The lid of the urn-like flower capsule of mosses. 2. (Conch.) (a.) The lid closing the aperture of various species of snails' shells, as the common…Ŏp'er-ēt'tā, n. p. 914(Mus.) A short, light, musical drama.Ōp'er-ōse', a. p. 914Wrought with labor; requiring labor; laborious; hence, tedious; wearisome. “A very operose calculation.” De Quincey. All these operose proceedings were adopted by one of the most decided tyrants in…Ōp'er-ōse'ly, adv. p. 914In an operose manner.Ōp'er-ōse'ness, n. p. 914The state of being operose or laborious.ŏp'er-ŏs'i-ty, n. p. 914Laboriousness. [Rare.]Ōp'er-ōŭs, a. p. 914The same as OPEROSE. [Obs.]Ōp'er-oŭs-ly, adv. p. 914In an operose manner. “I conceive myself not here concerned operously to insist in proving.” J. Howe.ŏp'er-tā'ne-oŭs, a. p. 914Concealed from others; private. [Obs.]Ōpe'-tide, n. p. 914Open time; — applied to different things; as, (a.) To the early spring, or the time when flowers begin to open. Nares. (b.) To the period between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, wherein marriages were…Ŏph'i-cleīde, n. p. 914(Mus.) A large brass wind instrument of the trumpet kind, used in the orchestra, and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves. Moore.O-phīd′i-an, n. p. 914(Zoöl.) An animal of the group of snakes, or of the order Ophidia of reptiles. They are characterized by an elongate scaly form, without anterior members, moving by flexions of the body, and by…O-phīd'i-an or O-phīd'i-oŭs, a. p. 914Pertaining to serpents; belonging to an order of vertebral animals destitute of feet or fins.O-phīd'i-ōn, n. p. 914(Ichth.) A kind of sea-fish resembling an eel or serpent.Ō'phi-o-lōg'ic or Ō'phi-o-lōg'ic-al, a. p. 914Pertaining to ophiology.Ō'phi-ōl'o-gĭst, n. p. 914One versed in the natural history of serpents.Ō'phi-ŏl'o-gy, n. p. 914That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians or serpents, or in accordance with the principles of which the various kinds are described and arranged.ŏ'phi-o-măn'cy, n. p. 915The art of divining or predicting events by serpents, as by their manner of eating or by their coils.ō'phi-o-mōr'phīte, n. p. 915(Paleon.) The fossil shell of an extinct genus of mollusks; an ammonite. See AMMONITE.ō'phi-o-mōr'phōus, a. p. 915Having the form of a serpent.ŏ'phi-ŏph'a-gōūs, a. p. 915Eating or feeding on serpents. [Obs.] Browne.ō'phīte, a. p. 915Pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]Ō'phīte, n. p. 915(Min.) Serpentine; also, one of the varieties of serpentine or verd-antique marble; also, green porphyry; — so called from the spots of different colors which give it a mottled appearance resembling…Ō'phīte, n. p. 915(Eccl. Hist.) A member of a Gnostic sect of the second century, who paid worship to a serpent.Ō'phi-ū'chus, n. p. 915(Astron.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere.ŏph-thăl'mi-ă, n. p. 915See OPHTHALMY.Oph-thāl'mic, a. p. 915Pertaining to the eye.Ŏph·thal·mōg'ra·phy, n. p. 915An anatomical description of the eye. Dunglison.