Orchises (pl. ) of Orchis
Orchis (n.) A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.
Orchis (n.) Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
Orchitis (n.) Inflammation of the testicles.
Orchotomy (n.) The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
Orcin (n.) A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
Ord (n.) An edge or point; also, a beginning.
Ordained (imp. & p. p.) of Ordain
Ordaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ordain
Ordain (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
Ordain (v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
Ordain (v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
Ordain (v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
Ordainable (a.) Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.
Ordainer (n.) One who ordains.
Ordainment (n.) Ordination.
Ordal (n.) Ordeal.
Ordalian (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Ordeal (n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
Ordeal (n.) Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience.
Ordeal (a.) Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
Order (n.) Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library.
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like.
Order (n.) Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
Order (n.) The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion.
Order (n.) Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate.
Order (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction.
Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction, in writing, to pay money, to furnish supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large.
Order (n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a group or division of men in the same social or other position; also, a distinct character, kind, or sort; as, the higher or lower orders of society; talent of a high order.
Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order.
Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry.
Order (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
Order (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
Order (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
Order (n.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
Ordered (imp. & p. p.) of Order
Ordering (p pr. & vb. n.) of Order
Order (n.) To put in order; to reduce to a methodical arrangement; to arrange in a series, or with reference to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule.
Order (n.) To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
Order (n.) To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
Order (n.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
Order (v. i.) To give orders; to issue commands.
Orderable (a.) Capable of being ordered; tractable.
Orderer (n.) One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
Orderer (n.) One who gives orders.
Ordering (n.) Disposition; distribution; management.
Orderless (a.) Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
Orderliness (n.) The state or quality of being orderly.
Orderly (a.) Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.
Orderly (a.) Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.
Orderly (a.) Performed in good or established order; well-regulated.
Orderly (a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
Orderly (adv.) According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.
Orderlies (pl. ) of Orderly
Orderly (n.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
Orderly (n.) A street sweeper.
Ordinability (n.) Capability of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinable (a.) Capable of being ordained or appointed.
Ordinal (a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
Ordinal (a.) Of or pertaining to an order.
Ordinal (n.) A word or number denoting order or succession.
Ordinal (n.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
Ordinal (n.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass.
Ordinalism (n.) The state or quality of being ordinal.
Ordinance (n.) Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
Ordinance (n.) A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government; as, a municipal ordinance.
Ordinance (n.) An established rite or ceremony.
Ordinance (n.) Rank; order; station.
Ordinance (n.) Ordnance; cannon.
Ordinand (n.) One about to be ordained.
Ordinant (a.) Ordaining; decreeing.
Ordinant (n.) One who ordains.
Ordinarily (adv.) According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe.
Ordinary (a.) According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.
Ordinary (a.) Common; customary; usual.
Ordinary (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book.
Ordinaries (pl. ) of Ordinary
Ordinary (n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.
Ordinary (n.) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.
Ordinary (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
Ordinary (n.) The mass; the common run.
Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.
Ordinary (n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
Ordinary (n.) A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hote; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.
Ordinary (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
Ordinaryship (n.) The state of being an ordinary.
Ordinate (a.) Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.
Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, 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 abscissa of the point is measured.
Ordinate (v. t.) To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
Ordinately (adv.) In an ordinate manner; orderly.
Ordination (n.) The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
Ordination (n.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
Ordination (n.) Disposition; arrangement; order.
Ordinative (a.) Tending to ordain; directing; giving order.
Ordinator (n.) One who ordains or establishes; a director.
Ordnance (n.) Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
Ordonnance (n.) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.