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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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Ŏr'di-nāte, v. t. p. 920To appoint. [Obs.]Ŏr'di-nate, a. p. 920Regular; methodical. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal.Ōr′di-nate, n. p. 920(Geom.) The distance of any point in a curve measured on a line called the axis of ordinates, or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding…Ōr'di-nate-ly, adv. p. 920In a regular, methodical manner. [Rare.] Skelton.Ŏr'/di-nā'tion, n. p. 920The act of ordaining. 2. Especially, the act of setting apart to an office of the Christian ministry. 3. The state of being ordained or appointed; tendency. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination…Ōr′-di-nā′tive, a. p. 920Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [Rare.]Ŏr′-di-nā′-tor, n. p. 920One who ordains or establishes. [Obs.]Ôrd'nance, n. p. 920Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his rifled ordnance. E.…Ōr'/don-nănçe, n. p. 920(Fine Arts.) The disposition of the parts either in regard to the whole piece or to the several parts. He attempted to imitate their artificial construction of the whole work—their dramatic…Ōr'don-nant, a. p. 920Of, or pertaining to, ordonnance; tending or serving to dispose in proper order; arranging; ordering. “Acting as the impregnant, distinctive, and ordonnant power.” Coleridge.Ōrd′ūre, n. p. 920Dung; excrements; feces. 2. Defect; imperfection. [Obs. and rare.] All the sort of these beryls have these faults, to wit, white hairy streaks or lines, yea, and other filthy ordure. Holland.Ord'ür-oüs, a. p. 920Pertaining to, or consisting of, ordure or dung; filthy. [Obs.] Drayton.Ōre, n. p. 920The compound of a metal and some other substance, as oxygen, sulphur, or arsenic, called its mineralizer, by which its properties are disguised or lost. Metals found free from such combination, and…Ō're-ăd, n. p. 920A mountain nymph. Milton.Ō/re-o-grāph'ic, a. p. 920Of, or pertaining to, oreography.Ō/re-ŏg'ra-phy, n. p. 920The science of mountains.Ore'-weed or Ore'-wood, n. p. 920Sea-weed. [Obs.] Carew.Ōrf'gīld, n. p. 920(O. Eng. Law.) The restitution of goods or money stolen, if taken in the daytime.Or'frāy, n. p. 920The osprey. [Obs.] Holland.Ōr'frāys, n. p. 920Fringe of gold; gold embroidery. [Obs.] Chaucer.Ŏr'gal, n. p. 920Unrefined or crude tartar; argal. Ure.Ōr'gan, n. p. 920An instrument or medium by which an important action is performed, or an important object is accomplished; especially, a natural part or feature of a living existence or being, capable of a special…Ōr'gan, v. t. p. 920To supply an organ or organs to or for; to fit with organs; to organize. [Obs.] Wouldst thou be treated with in the ineffable dialect of heaven? Alas! fond creature, thou art elemented and organed…Ŏr'gan-buĭld'er, n. p. 920One whose occupation is to construct musical organs.Or'gan-har-mō'ni-ŭm, n. p. 920(Mus.) An harmonium of large capacity and power, designed as an economical substitute for the organ. See HARMONIUM.Ōr'gan-dīe or Ōr'gan-dȳ, n. p. 920A kind of muslin or cotton fabric, characterized by great transparency and lightness.Or-găn'ic or Or-găn'ic-al, a. p. 920Pertaining to an organ or its functions; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of the human body or of plants. 2. Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure. 3.…Or-gän'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 920In an organic manner; with organical structure or disposition of parts; as, the bodies of animals and plants are organically framed. 2. By means of organs.Or-gän'ic-al-ness, n. p. 920State of being organical.Or-găn'i-çĭsm, n. p. 920(Med.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.Ōr'gan-if'ic, a. p. 920Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs. E. A. Paré.Ŏr'gan-ism, n. p. 920A structure composed of or acting by means of organs; the mutual arrangement or dependence of organs and their functions. 2. An organized being; a being endowed with, or composed of, organs; a being…Ŏr'gan-ist, n. p. 920(Mus.) One who plays on the organ. 2. One who organized or sung in parts. [Obs.]Ōr'gan-īz-a-bil'i-ty, n. p. 920The state or quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.Ôr'gan-iz/a-ble, a. p. 920Capable of being organized; as, the organizable quality of fibrine. Dunglison.Ōr'gan-i-zā'tion, n. p. 920The act of organizing. “The first organization of the general government.” Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; the relations included in such a state or condition. What is organization but…Or'gan-ize, v. t. p. 920To furnish with organs; to endow with the capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being;—in this sense chiefly used in the participle, and applied to living beings. These nobler…Ôr'gan-ling, n. p. 920(Ichth.) A kind of fish; orgeis.Ôr'gan-lŏft, n. p. 920The loft where an organ stands.Ōr'gan-o-gĕn'ie, a. p. 920Pertaining to the development of organs in plants and animals. Dana.Ôr’gan-o-grāph’ie or Ôr’gan-o-grāph’ie-al, a. p. 920Pertaining to organography.Ôr'/gan-ŏg'ra-phist, n. p. 920One who describes the organs of animal or vegetable bodies.Ŏr'gan-ŏg'ra-phy, n. p. 920(Nat. Hist.) A description of the organs of plants or animals, or of the names and kinds of their organs.Ōr'/gan-o-lĕp'tie, a. p. 920Seizing upon, or making an impression upon, an organ or organs;—said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, smell, and taste, and also on living organisms. It…Ôr'gan-ŏl'o-gy, n. p. 920The science of, or an account of, organs and their uses. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De…Ôr'gan-o-me-tăl'lic, a. p. 920Characterizing, or pertaining to, a chemical combination of certain organic radicals with metals. Organo-metallic bodies, chemical compounds in which compound organic radicals, such as ethyl, methyl…Or'ga-nŏn or Or'ga-nōn, n. p. 921An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; — a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title of part of his…Ōr'/gan-o-plās'tie, a. p. 921Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of living beings; as, the organoplastic cells. Dana.Ŏr'gan-ŏs'co-py, n. p. 921The theory that the figure and extent of certain divisions of the brain can be discerned externally; phrenology. Fleming.Ōr'gan-pīpe, n. p. 921(Mus.) The pipe of a musical organ.Or'gan-rĕst, n. p. 921(Her.) A figure of uncertain origin, borne by certain ancient families.Ōr'gan-stŏp, n. p. 921(Mus.) The stop of an organ, or any collection of pipes under one general name.Ŏr'ga-ny, n. p. 921See ORIGAN.Ōr'gan-zīne', n. p. 921A kind of thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.Ōr'gasm, n. p. 921Immoderate excitement or action; as, the orgasm of the blood or spirits.Orgeat, n. p. 921A liquor extracted from barley and sweet almonds; — used to flavor beverages or edibles.Ôr'ge-is, n. p. 921(Ichth.) A certain fish; organling;—supposed to be so called from the Orkneys, on the coast of which it is taken. Johnson.Ôr’gil-lōŭs, a. p. 921Proud; haughty. [Obs.] Shak.Ōrgues, n. p. 921(Mil.) (a.) A defensive apparatus of the nature of a portcullis, or hearse, consisting of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, hung over a gateway, to be let down in case of…Or'gy, n. p. 921Originally, a sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies; afterward, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysius, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and…