Orangite () An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.
Orang-outang (n.) An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang.
Orarian (a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.
Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.
Oration (v. i.) To deliver an oration.
Orator (n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
Orator (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
Orator (n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
Orator (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
Oratorial (a.) Oratorical.
Oratorian (a.) Oratorical.
Oratorian (n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
Oratorical (a.) Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay.
Oratorio (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.
Oratorio (n.) Performance or rendering of such a composition.
Oratorious (a.) Oratorical.
Oratorize (v. i.) To play the orator.
Oratories (pl. ) of Oratory
Oratory (n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
Oratory (n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
Oratress (n.) A woman who makes public addresses.
Oratrix (n.) A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading.
Orb (n.) A blank window or panel.
Orb (n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
Orb (n.) One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
Orb (n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
Orb (n.) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
Orb (n.) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
Orb (n.) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
Orb (n.) A sphere of action.
Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
Orb (n.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Orbed (imp. & p. p.) of Orb
Orbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Orb
Orb (v. t.) To form into an orb or circle.
Orb (v. t.) To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
Orb (v. i.) To become round like an orb.
Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
Orbation (n.) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.
Orbed (a.) Having the form of an orb; round.
Orbic (a.) Alt. of Orbical
Orbical (a.) Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular.
Orbicle (n.) A small orb, or sphere.
Orbicula (n.) Same as Discina.
Orbicular (a.) Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular; orbiculate.
Orbiculate (n.) That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
Orbiculate (a.) Alt. of Orbiculated
Orbiculated (a.) Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline.
Orbiculation (n.) The state or quality of being orbiculate; orbicularness.
Orbit (n.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.
Orbit (n.) An orb or ball.
Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
Orbit (n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
Orbital (a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.
Orbitar (a.) Orbital.
Orbitary (a.) Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
Orbitelae (n. pl.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
Orbitolites (n.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
Orbitonasal (a.) Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
Orbitosphenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone.
Orbitosphenoid (n.) The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
Orbitosphenoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
Orbituary (a.) Orbital.
Orbitude (n.) Alt. of Orbity
Orbity (n.) Orbation.
Orbulina (n.) A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.
Orby (a.) Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving.
Orc (n.) The grampus.
Orcadian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
Orcein (n.) A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
Orchal (n.) See Archil.
Orchanet (n.) Same as Alkanet, 2.
Orchard (n.) A garden.
Orchard (n.) An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
Orcharding (n.) The cultivation of orchards.
Orcharding (n.) Orchards, in general.
Orchardist (n.) One who cultivates an orchard.
Orchel (n.) Archil.
Orchesography (n.) A treatise upon dancing.
Orchester (n.) See Orchestra.
Orchestian (n.) Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidae. See Beach flea, under Beach.
Orchestra (n.) The space in a theater between the stage and the audience; -- originally appropriated by the Greeks to the chorus and its evolutions, afterward by the Romans to persons of distinction, and by the moderns to a band of instrumental musicians.
Orchestra (n.) The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
Orchestra (n.) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.
Orchestra (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos.
Orchestra (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like.
Orchestra (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
Orchestral (a.) Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
Orchestration (n.) The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
Orchestre (n.) See Orchestra.
Orchestric (a.) Orchestral.
Orchestrion (n.) A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.
Orchid (n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
Orchidaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the United States, but several thousand in the tropics.
Orchidean (a.) Orchidaceous.
Orchideous (a.) Same as Orchidaceous.
Orchidologist (n.) One versed in orchidology.
Orchidology (n.) The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
Orchil (n.) See Archil.
Orchilla weed () The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.