Ordonnant (a.) Of or pertaining to ordonnance.
Ordovian (a. & n.) Ordovician.
Ordovician (a.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian.
Ordovician (n.) The Ordovician formation.
Ordure (n.) Dung; excrement; faeces.
Ordure (n.) Defect; imperfection; fault.
Ordurous (a.) Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
Ore (n.) Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.
Ore (n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers).
Ore (n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless.
Ore (n.) Metal; as, the liquid ore.
Oread (n.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
Oreades (n. pl.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
Orectic (a.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
Oregon grape () An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
Oreide (n.) See Oroide.
Oreodon (n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.
Oreodont (a.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
Oreographic (a.) Of or pertaining to oreography.
Oreography (n.) The science of mountains; orography.
Oreoselin (n.) A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
Oreosoma (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
Oreweed (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Orewood (n.) Same as Oarweed.
Orf (n.) Alt. of Orfe
Orfe (n.) A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.
Orfgild (n.) Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.
Orfray (n.) The osprey.
Orfrays (n.) See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
Orgal (n.) See Argol.
Organ (n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
Organ (n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.
Organ (n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
Organ (n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
Organ (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
Organ (v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
Organdie (n.) Alt. of Organdy
Organdy (n.) A kind of transparent light muslin.
Organic (a.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.
Organic (a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.
Organic (a.) Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
Organic (a.) Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
Organic (a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
Organical (a.) Organic.
Organically (adv.) In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally.
Organicalness (n.) The quality or state of being organic.
Organicism (n.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.
Organific (a.) Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs.
Organism (n.) Organic structure; organization.
Organism (n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Organist (n.) One who plays on the organ.
Organist (n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.
Organista (n.) Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
Organity (n.) Organism.
Organizability (n.) Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.
Organizable (a.) Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
Organization (n.) The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.
Organization (n.) The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition.
Organization (n.) That which is organized; an organized existence; an organism
Organization (n.) an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life.
Organized (imp. & p. p.) of Organize
Organizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Organize
Organize (v. t.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
Organize (v. t.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
Organizer (n.) One who organizes.
Organling (n.) A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.
Organo- () A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.
Organogen (n.) A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.
Organogenesis (n.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
Organogenesis (n.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
Organogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to organogenesis.
Organogeny (n.) Organogenesis.
Organographic (a.) Alt. of Organographical
Organographical (a.) Of or pertaining to organography.
Organographist (n.) One versed in organography.
Organography (n.) A description of the organs of animals or plants.
Organoleptic (a.) Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole.
Organological (a.) Of or relating to organology.
Organology (n.) The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.
Organology (n.) That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.
Organometallic (a.) Metalorganic.
Organon (n.) Alt. of Organum
Organum (n.) An 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 ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method.
Organonymy (n.) The designation or nomenclature of organs.
Organophyly (n.) The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly.
Organoplastic (a.) Having the property of producing the tissues or organs of animals and plants; as, the organoplastic cells.
Organoscopy (n.) Phrenology.
Organotrophic (a.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.
Organule (n.) One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Sense organule, under Sense.
Organy (n.) See Origan.
Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.
Orgasm (n.) Eager or immoderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.
Orgeat (n.) A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.
Orgeis (n.) See Organling.
Orgiastic (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.
Orgies (n. pl.) A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.
Orgies (n. pl.) Drunken revelry; a carouse.
Orgillous (a.) Proud; haughty.
Orgue (n.) Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.