ORANGEROOTOr"ange*root`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; — also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
ORANGERYOr"an*ger*y, n. Etym: [F. orangerie, fr. orange. See Orange.]
Defn: A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
ORANGETAWNYOr"ange*taw`ny, a. & n.
Defn: Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.
ORANGITEOr"an*gite, (Min.)
Defn: An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found inNorway.
ORANG-OUTANG O*rang"-ou*tang`, n. Etym: [Malayan , i. e., man of the woods; man + a forest, wood, wild, savage.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang- outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan.]
Note: It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its color is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects.
ORARIANO*ra"ri*an, a. Etym: [L. orarius, fr. ora coast.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a coast.
ORATIONO*ra"tion, n.Etym: [L. oratio, fr. orare to speak, utter, pray. SeeOral, Orison.]
Defn: 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. The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon.
Syn.— Address; speech. See Harangue.
ORATIONO*ra"tion, v. i.
Defn: To deliver an oration. Donne.
ORATOROr"a*tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. orare to speak, utter. See Oration.]
1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent. I am no orator, as Brutus is. Shak. Some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome. Milton.
2. (Law) (a) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner. (b) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery. Burrill.
3. (Eng. Universities)
Defn: 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.
ORATORIALOr`a*to"ri*al, a.
Defn: Oratorical. [R.] Swift. —Or`a*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
ORATORIANOr`a*to"ri*an, a.
Defn: Oratorical. [Obs.] R. North.
ORATORIANOr`a*to"ri*an, n. Etym: [Cf. F. oratorien.] (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory.
ORATORICALOr`a*tor"ic*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to an orator or to oratory; characterized by oratory; rhetorical; becoming to an orator; as, an oratorical triumph; an oratorical essay. — Or`a*tor"ic*al*ly, adv.
ORATORIOOr`a*to"ri*o, n. Etym: [It., fr. L. oratorius belonging to praying.See Orator, and cf. Oratory.]
1. (Mus.)
Defn: 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.
Note: There are instances of secular and mythological subjects treated in the form of the oratorios, and called oratorios by their composers; as Haydn's "Seasons," Handel's "Semele," etc.
2. Performance or rendering of such a composition.
ORATORIOUSOr`a*to"ri*ous, a. Etym: [LL. oratorius.]
Defn: Oratorical. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.— Or`a*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]
ORATORIZEOr"a*tor*ize, v. i.
Defn: To play the orator. [Jocose or derisive] Dickens.
ORATORYOr"a*to*ry, n.; pl. Oratories. Etym: [OE. oratorie, fr. L. oratorium,fr. oratorius of praying, of an orator: cf. F. oratoire. See Orator,Oral, and cf. Oratorio.]
Defn: A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or smallroom set apart for private devotions.An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer.Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to prayin. Jer. Taylor.Fathers of the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded bySt. Philip Neri, living in community, and not bound by a special vow.The members are called also oratorians.
ORATORYOr"a*to*ry, n. Etym: [L. oratoria (sc. ars) the oratorical art.]
Defn: 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. "The oratory of Greece and Rome." Milton. When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory. Shak.
ORATRESSOr"a*tress, n.
Defn: A woman who makes public addresses. Warner.
ORATRIXOr"a*trix, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: A woman plaintiff, or complainant, in equity pleading. Burrill.
ORBOrb, n. Etym: [OF. orb blind, fr. L. orbus destitute.] (Arch.)
Defn: A blank window or panel. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.
ORBOrb, n. Etym: [F. orbe, fr. L. orbis circle, orb. Cf. Orbit.]
1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star. In the small orb of one particular tear. Shak. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. Milton.
2. 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.
3. A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit. The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. Bacon. You seem to me as Dian in her orb. Shak. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. Milton.
4. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. [R.] Milton.
5. The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic] A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. Milton.
6. A revolving circular body; a wheel. [Poetic] The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. Milton.
7. A sphere of action. [R.] Wordsworth. But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. Shak
8. Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
9. (Mil.)
Defn: A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Syn.— Globe; ball; sphere. See Globe.
ORBOrb, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Orbing.]
1. To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] Milton. Lowell.
2. To encircle; to surround; to inclose. [Poetic] The wheels were orbed with gold. Addison.
ORBOrb, v. i.
Defn: To become round like an orb. [Poetic]And orb into the perfect star. Tennyson.
ORBATE Or"bate, a. Etym: [L. orbatus, p. p. of orbare to bereave, fr. orbus bereaved of parents or children. See Orphan.]
Defn: Bereaved; fatherless; childless. [Obs.]
ORBATIONOr*ba"tion, n. Etym: [L. orbatio.]
Defn: The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ORBEDOrbed, a.
Defn: Having the form of an orb; round.The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
ORBIC; ORBICALOr"bic, Or"bic*al, a. Etym: [L. orbicus, or orbitus, fr. orbis orb.]
Defn: Spherical; orbicular; orblike; circular. [R.] Bacon.
ORBICLEOr"bi*cle, n. Etym: [L. orbiculus, dim. of orbis orb.]
Defn: A small orb, or sphere. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
ORBICULAOr*bic"u*la, n. Etym: [NL. See Orbicle.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Same as Discina.
ORBICULAR Or*bic"u*lar, a. Etym: [L. orbicularis, fr. orbiculus, dim. of orbis orb: cf. F. orbiculaire.]
Defn: Resembling or having the form of an orb; spherical; circular;orbiculate.— Or*bic"u*lar*ly, adv.— Or*bic"u*lar*ness, n.Orbicular as the disk of a planet. De Quincey.
ORBICULATEOr*bic"u*late, n.
Defn: That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.
ORBICULATE; ORBICULATEDOr*bic"u*late, Or*bic"u*la`ted, a. Etym: [L. orbiculatus. SeeOrbicular.]
Defn: Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline. Orbiculate leaf (Bot.), a leaf whose outline is nearly circular.
ORBICULATIONOr*bic`u*la"tion, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being orbiculate; orbicularness. Dr. H.More.
ORBIT Or"bit, n. Etym: [L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel, course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d Orb.]
1. (Astron.)
Defn: 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.
2. An orb or ball. [Rare & Improper] Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.
3. (Anat.)
Defn: The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.
4. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
ORBITALOr"bit*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.
ORBITAROr"bit*ar, a. Etym: [Cf. F. orbitaire.]
Defn: Orbital. [R.] Dunglison.
ORBITARYOr"bit*a*ry, a.
Defn: Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.
ORBITELAEOr`bi*te"læ, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. L. orbis an orb + tela a web.](Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.
ORBITOLITESOr`bi*to*li"tes, n. Etym: [NL. See Orbit, and -lite.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.
ORBITONASALOr`bi*to*na"sal, a. Etym: [Orbit + nasal.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.
ORBITOSPHENOIDOr`bi*to*sphe"noid, a. Etym: [Orbit + sphenoid.] (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. — n.
Defn: 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.
ORBITOSPHENOIDALOr`bi*to*sphe*noid"al, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.
ORBITUARYOr*bit"u*a*ry, a.
Defn: Orbital. [R.]
ORBITUDE; ORBITYOr"bi*tude, Or"bi*ty, n. Etym: [L. orbitudo, orbitas, fr. orbus: cf.F. orbité. See Orbate.]
Defn: Orbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ORBULINAOr`bu*li"na, n. Etym: [NL., dim. of L. orbis orb.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.
ORBYOrb"y, a. Etym: [From 2d Orb.]
Defn: Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving. [Obs.] "Orby hours." Chapman.
ORCOrc, n. Etym: [L. orca: cf. F. orque.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The grampus. [Written also ork and orch.] Milton.
ORCADIANOr*ca"di*an, a. Etym: [L. Orcades the Orkney Islands.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Orkney Islands.
ORCEINOr"ce*in, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff,
ORCHALOr"chal, n.
Defn: See Archil.
ORCHANETOr"cha*net, n. Etym: [F. orcanète.] (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Alkanet, 2. Ainsworth.
ORCHARD Or"chard, n. Etym: [AS. ortgeard, wyrtgeard, lit., wortyard, i. e., a yard for herbs; wyrt herb + geard yard. See Wort, Yard inclosure.]
1. A garden. [Obs.]
2. 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. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. — Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots. — Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequents orchards. It is smaller and darker thah the Baltimore oriole.
ORCHARDINGOr"chard*ing, n.
1. The cultivation of orchards.
2. Orchards, in general.
ORCHARDISTOr"chard*ist, n.
Defn: One who cultivates an orchard.
ORCHELOr"chel, n.
Defn: Archil.
ORCHESOGRAPHYOr`che*sog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.]
Defn: A treatise upon dancing. [R.]
ORCHESTEROr"ches*ter, n.
Defn: See Orchestra.
ORCHESTIANOr*ches"tian, n. Etym: [From Gr. Orchestra.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidæ. See Beach flea, under Beach.
ORCHESTRAOr"ches*tra, n. Etym: [L. orchestra, Gr. orchestre.]
1. 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.
2. The place in any public hall appropriated to a band of instrumental musicians.
3. (Mus.) (a) Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement. (b) 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. (c) 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.
4. (Mus.)
Defn: The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments.
ORCHESTRALOr"ches*tral, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
ORCHESTRATIONOr`ches*tra"tion, n. (Mus.)
Defn: The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; — called also instrumentation.
ORCHESTREOr"ches*tre, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: See Orchestra.
ORCHESTRICOr*ches"tric, a.
Defn: Orchestral.
ORCHESTRIONOr*ches"tri*on, n.
Defn: A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.
ORCHIDOr"chid, n. Etym: [See Orchis.] (Bot.)
Defn: Any plant of the order Orchidaceæ. See Orchidaceous.
ORCHIDACEOUSOr`chi*da"ceous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceæ) 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.
Note: Over three hundred genera are recognized.
ORCHIDEANOr*chid"e*an, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Orchidaceous.
ORCHIDEOUSOr*chid"e*ous, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Same as Orchidaceous.
ORCHIDOLOGISTOr`chid*ol"o*gist, n.
Defn: One versed in orchidology.
ORCHIDOLOGYOr`chid*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]
Defn: The branch of botany which treats of orchids.
ORCHILOr"chil, n.
Defn: See Archil.
ORCHILLA WEEDOr*chil"la weed`. (Bot.)
Defn: The lichen from which archil is obtained. See Archil.
ORCHISOr"chis, n.; pl. Orchises. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
1. (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
Note: The common names, such as bee orchis, fly orchis, butterfly orchis, etc., allude to the peculiar form of the flower.
ORCHITISOr*chi"tis, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. -itis.] (Med.)
Defn: Inflammation of the testicles.
ORCHOTOMYOr*chot"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Surg.)
Defn: The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
ORCINOr"cin, n. Etym: [Etymology uncertain: cf. F. orcine.] (Chem.)
Defn: 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.
ORDOrd, n. Etym: [AS. ord point.]
Defn: An edge or point; also, a beginning. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng.]Chaucer. Ord and end, the beginning and end. Cf. Odds and ends, underOdds. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Halliwell.
ORDAINOr*dain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordained; p. pr. & vb. n. Ordaining.]Etym: [OE. ordeinen, OF. ordener, F. ordonner, fr. L. ordinare, fromordo, ordinis, order. See Order, and cf. Ordinance.]
1. To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish. "Battle well ordained." Spenser. The stake that shall be ordained on either side. Chaucer.
2. To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute. Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month. 1 Kings xii. 32. And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom Byron.
3. To set apart for an office; to appoint. Being ordained his special governor. Shak.
4. (Eccl.)
Defn: 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. Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. Bp. Stillingfleet.
ORDAINABLEOr*dain"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed.Bp. Hall.
ORDAINEROr*dain"er, n.
Defn: One who ordains.
ORDAINMENTOr*dain"ment, n.
Defn: Ordination. [R.] Burke.
ORDALOr"dal, n.
Defn: Ordeal. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ORDALIANOr*da"li*an, a. Etym: [LL. orda.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
ORDEAL Or"de*al, n. Etym: [AS. ordal, ord, a judgment; akin to D. oordeel, G. urteil, urtheil; orig., what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to a- compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. meaning, out. See Deal, v. & n., and cf. Arise, Ort.]
1. 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.
Note: In England ordeal by fire and ordeal by water were used, the former confined to persons of rank, the latter to the common people. The ordeal by fire was performed, either by handling red-hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares, laid at unequal distances. If the person escaped unhurt, he was adjudged innocent; otherwise he was condemned as guilty. The ordeal by water was performed, either by plunging the bare arm to the elbow in boiling water, an escape from injury being taken as proof of innocence, or by casting the accused person, bound hand and foot, into a river or pond, when if he floated it was an evidence of guilt, but if he sunk he was acquitted. It is probable that the proverbial phrase, to go through fire and water, denoting severe trial or danger, is derived from the ordeal. See Wager of battle, under Wager.
2. Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar. — Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. — Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar (Tanghinia, or Cerbera, venenata). Persons suspected of crime are forced to eat the seeds of the plumlike fruit, and criminals are put to death by being pricked with a lance dipped in the juice of the seeds.
ORDEALOr"de*al, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal.
ORDEROr"der, n. Etym: [OE. ordre, F. ordre, fr. L. ordo, ordinis. Cf.Ordain, Ordinal.]
1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: (a) Of material things, like the books in a library. (b) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. (c) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. The side chambers were . . . thirty in order. Ezek. xli. 6. Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. Milton. Good order is the foundation of all good things. Burke.
2. Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order. Locke.
3. The customary mode of procedure; established system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. Dantiel. And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt. Emerson.
4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet; as, to preserve order in a community or an assembly.
5. That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate. The church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish. Hooker.
6. A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction. Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon.
7. 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. In those days were pit orders — beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.
8. 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. They are in equal order to their several ends. Jer. Taylor. Various orders various ensigns bear. Granville. Which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime. Hawthorne.
9. 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. Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. Shak. The venerable order of the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
10. 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.
11. (Arch.)
Defn: 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.
Note: The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, — Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of Capital.
12. (Nat. Hist.)
Defn: An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
Note: The Linnæan artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several tribes.
13. (Rhet.)
Defn: The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
14. (Math.)
Defn: Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation. Artificial order or system. See Artificial classification, under Artificial, and Note to def. 12 above. — Close order (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in Ant: open order. — The four Orders, The Orders four, the four orders of mendicant friars. See Friar. Chaucer. — General orders (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders. — Holy orders. (a) (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10 above. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring a special grace on those ordained. — In order to, for the purpose of; to the end; as means to. The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness. Tillotson. — Minor orders (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. — Money order. See under Money. — Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. — Order book. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered. (b) (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded for the information of officers and men. (c) A book in the House of Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [Eng.] — Order in Council, a royal order issed with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain] — Order of battle (Mil.), the particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. — Order of the day, in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day. — Order of a differential equation (Math.), the greatest index of differentiation in the equation. — Sailing orders (Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise. — Sealed orders, orders sealed, and not to be opended until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea. — Standing order. (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct of parliamentary business. (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer temporarily in command. — To give order, to give command or directions. Shak. — To take order for, to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning. Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. Shak.
Syn.— Arrangement; management. See Direction.
ORDEROr"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordered; p pr. & vb. n. Ordering.] Etym:[From Order, n.]
1. 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. To him that ordereth his conversation aright. Ps. 1. 23. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton.
2. To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
3. To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
4. (Eccl.)
Defn: To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry. These ordered folk be especially titled to God. Chaucer. Persons presented to be ordered deacons. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Order arms (Mil.), the command at which a rifle is brought to a position with its but resting on the ground; also, the position taken at such a command.
ORDEROr"der, v. i.
Defn: To give orders; to issue commands.
ORDERABLEOr"der*a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.]Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
ORDEREROr"der*er, n.
1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
2. One who gives orders.
ORDERINGOr"der*ing, n.
Defn: Disposition; distribution; management. South.
ORDERLESSOr"der*less, a.
Defn: Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
ORDERLINESSOr"der*li*ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being orderly.
ORDERLYOr"der*ly, a.
1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton.
2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.
3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." Clarendon.
4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. "Aids-de-camp and orderly men." Sir W. Scott. Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. — Orderly officer, the officer of the day, or that officer of a corps or regiment whose turn it is to supervise for the day the arrangements for food, cleanliness, etc. Farrow. — Orderly room. (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried. (b) The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate. Farrow. — Orderly sergeant, the first sergeant of a company.
ORDERLYOr"der*ly, adv.
Defn: According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak.
ORDERLYOr"der*ly, n.; pl. Orderlies (.
1. (Mil.)
Defn: A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service. Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace. Macaulay.
2. A street sweeper. [Eng.] Mayhew.
ORDINABILITYOr`di*na*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.
ORDINABLEOr"di*na*ble, a. Etym: [See Ordinate, Ordain.]
Defn: Capable of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.]
ORDINALOr"di*nal, a. Etym: [L. ordinalis, fr. ordo, ordinis, order. SeeOrder.]
1. Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc.
2. Of or pertaining to an order.
ORDINALOr"di*nal, n.
1. A word or number denoting order or succession.
2. (Ch. of Eng.)
Defn: The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. [Written also ordinale.]
ORDINALISMOr"di*nal*ism, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being ordinal. [R.] Latham.
ORDINANCEOr"di*nance, n. Etym: [OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance.See Ordain, and cf. Ordnance, Ordonnance.]
1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser. They had made their ordinance Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer.
2. 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. Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance. Shak. By custom and the ordinance of times. Shak. Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. Luke i. 6.
Note: Acts of Parliament are sometimes called ordinances; also, certain colonial laws and certain acts of Congress under Confederation; as, the ordinance of 1787 for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River; the colonial ordinance of 1641, or 1647. This word is often used in Scripture in the sense of a law or statute of sovereign power. Ex. xv. 25. Num. x. 8. Ezra iii. 10. Its most frequent application now in the United States is to laws and regulations of municipal corporations. Wharton (Law Dict.).
3. (Eccl.)
Defn: An established rite or ceremony.
4. Rank; order; station. [Obs.] Shak.
5. Etym: [See Ordnance.]
Defn: Ordnance; cannon. [Obs.] Shak.
ORDINANDOr"di*nand`, n. Etym: [L. ordinandus, gerundive of ordinare. SeeOrdain.]
Defn: One about to be ordained.
ORDINANTOr"di*nant, a. Etym: [L. ordinans, p. pr. of ordinare. See Ordain.]
Defn: Ordaining; decreeing. [Obs.] Shak.
ORDINANTOr"di*nant, n.
Defn: One who ordains. F. G. Lee.
ORDINARILYOr"di*na*ri*ly, adv.
Defn: According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor.
ORDINARYOr"di*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf.F. ordinaire. See Order.]
1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison.
2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison.
3. 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. An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way. Macaulay. Ordinary seaman (Naut.), one not expert or fully skilled, and hence ranking below an able seaman.
Syn. — Normal; common; usual; customary. See Normal. — Ordinary, Common. A thing is common in which many persons share or partake; as, a common practice. A thing is ordinary when it is apt to come round in the regular common order or succession of events.
ORDINARYOr"di*na*ry, n.; pl. Ordinaries (.
1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law)
Defn: 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. (c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.] I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. Shak.
3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.] Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. Bacon.
4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use. Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. Sir W. Scott.
5. 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'hôte; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. Shak. All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. Swift. He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.
6. (Her.)
Defn: 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. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; — said of a naval vessel. — Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day; — called also the canon of the Mass.
ORDINARYSHIPOr"di*na*ry*ship, n.
Defn: The state of being an ordinary. [R.] Fuller.
ORDINATEOr"di*nate, a. Etym: [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain.]
Defn: Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.
ORDINATEOr"di*nate, n. (Geom.)
Defn: 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.
Note: The ordinate and abscissa, taken together, are called coördinates, and define the position of the point with reference to the two axes named, the intersection of which is called the origin of coördinates. See Coordinate.
ORDINATEOr"di*nate, v. t.
Defn: To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.
ORDINATELYOr"di*nate*ly, adv.
Defn: In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.
ORDINATIONOr`di*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.]
1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc. The holy and wise ordination of God. Jer. Taylor. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.
2. (Eccl.)
Defn: The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.
ORDINATIVEOr"di*na*tive, a. Etym: [L. ordinativus.]
Defn: Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.
ORDINATOROr"di*na`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.
ORDNANCE Ord"nance, n. Etym: [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See Ordinance.]
Defn: Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
ORDONNANCEOr"don*nance, n. Etym: [F. See Ordinance.] (Fine Arts)
Defn: The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.
ORDONNANTOr"don*nant, a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of ordonner. See Ordinant.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden.
ORDOVIANOr*do"vi*an, a. & n. (Geol.)
Defn: Ordovician.
ORDOVICIANOr`do*vi"cian, a. Etym: [From L. Ordovices, a Celtic people inWales.] (Geol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. — n.
Defn: The Ordovician formation.
ORDURE Or"dure, n. Etym: [F. ordure, OF. ord filthy, foul, fr. L. horridus horrid. See Horrid.]
1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.
2. Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] Holland.
ORDUROUSOr"dur*ous, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. Drayton.
OREOre, n. Etym: [AS. ar.]
Defn: Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.]Chaucer.
OREOre, n. Etym: [AS. ; cf. ar brass, bronze, akin to OHG. , G. ehernbrazen, Icel. eir brass, Goth. ais, L. aes, Skr. ayas iron. Ora,Era.]
1. 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).
2. (Mining)
Defn: 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.
3. Metal; as, the liquid ore. [R.] Milton. Ore hearth, a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; — also called Scotch hearth. Raymond.
OREADO"re*ad, n. Etym: [L. Oreas, -adis, Gr. oréade.] (Class. Myth.)
Defn: One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.
OREADESO*re"a*des, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
ORECTICO*rec"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Philos.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
OREGON GRAPEOr"e*gon grape`. (Bot.)
Defn: An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), ofOregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
OREIDEO"re*ide, n.
Defn: See Oroide.
OREODONO"re*o*don, n. Etym: [Gr. (Paleon)
Defn: 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.
OREODONTO"re*o*dont, a. (Paleon.)
Defn: Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
OREOGRAPHICO`re*o*graph"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to oreography.
OREOGRAPHYO`re*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.]
Defn: The science of mountains; orography.
OREOSELINO`re*os"e*lin, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.
OREOSOMAO`re*o*so"ma, n. pl. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.
OREWEEDOre"weed`, n.
Defn: Same as Oarweed.
OREWOODOre"wood`, n.
Defn: Same as Oarweed.
ORF; ORFEOrf, Or"fe, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.
ORFGILD Orf"gild`, n. Etym: [AS. orf, yrfe, cattle, property + gild, gield, money, fine.] (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle.Cowell.
ORFRAYOr"fray, n. Etym: [F. orfraie. Cf. Osprey, Ossifrage.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The osprey. [Obs.] Holland.
ORFRAYS Or"frays, n. Etym: [OF. orfrais, F. orfroi; F. or gold + fraise, frise, fringe, ruff. See Fraise, and cf. Auriphrygiate.]
Defn: See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
ORGALOr"gal, n. (Chem.)
Defn: See Argol. [Obs.]
ORGAN Or"gan, n. Etym: [L. organum, Gr. work: cf. F. organe. See Work, and cf. Orgue, Orgy.]
1. 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.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: 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.
Note: In animals the organs are generally made up of several tissues, one of which usually predominates, and determines the principal function of the organ. Groups of organs constitute a system. See System.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Etym: [Cf. AS. organ, fr. L. organum.] (Mus.)
Defn: 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. The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. Pope.
Note: Chaucer used the form orgon as a plural.The merry orgon . . . that in the church goon [go]. Barrel organ,Choir organ, Great organ, etc. See under Barrel, Choir, etc.— Cabinet organ (Mus.), an organ of small size, as for a chapel orfor domestic use; a reed organ.— Organ bird (Zoöl.), a Tasmanian crow shrike (Gymnorhinaorganicum). It utters discordant notes like those of a hand organ outof tune.— Organ fish (Zoöl.), the drumfish.— Organ gun. (Mil.) Same as Orgue (b).— Organ harmonium (Mus.), an harmonium of large capacity and power.— Organ of Gorti (Anat.), a complicated structure in the cochlea ofthe ear, including the auditory hair cells, the rods or fibers ofCorti, the membrane of Corti, etc. See Note under Ear.— Organ pipe. See Pipe, n., 1.— Organ-pipe coral. (Zoöl.) See Tubipora.— Organ point (Mus.), a passage in which the tonic or dominant issustained continuously by one part, while the other parts move.
ORGANOr"gan, v. t.
Defn: To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; toorganize. [Obs.]Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions. Bp.Mannyngham.
ORGANDIE; ORGANDYOr"gan*die, Or"gan*dy, n. Etym: [F. organdi.]
Defn: A kind of transparent light muslin.
ORGANICOr*gan"ic, a. Etym: [L. organicus, Gr. organique.]
1. (Biol.)
Defn: 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.
2. Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure. [R.]
3. Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end. [R.] Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously. Milton.
4. 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.
5. 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 Ant: inorganic.
Note: The principles of organic and inorganic chemistry are identical; but the enormous number and the completeness of related series of organic compounds, together with their remarkable facility of exchange and substitution, offer an illustration of chemical reaction and homology not to be paralleled in inorganic chemistry. Organic analysis (Chem.), the analysis of organic compounds, concerned chiefly with the determination of carbon as carbon dioxide, hydrogen as water, oxygen as the difference between the sum of the others and 100 per cent, and nitrogen as free nitrogen, ammonia, or nitric oxide; — formerly called ultimate analysis, in distinction from proximate analysis. — Organic chemistry. See under Chemistry. — Organic compounds. (Chem.) See Carbon compounds, under Carbon. — Organic description of a curve (Geom.), the description of a curve on a plane by means of instruments. Brande & C. — Organic disease (Med.), a disease attended with morbid changes in the structure of the organs of the body or in the composition of its fluids; — opposed to functional disease. — Organic electricity. See under Electricity. — Organic law or laws, a law or system of laws, or declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and organization of a political or other association; a constitution. — Organic stricture (Med.), a contraction of one of the natural passages of the body produced by structural changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic stricture, which is due to muscular contraction.
ORGANICALOr*gan"ic*al, a.
Defn: Organic.The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move.Bentley.
ORGANICALLYOr*gan"ic*al*ly, adv.
Defn: In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.
ORGANICALNESSOr*gan"ic*al*ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being organic.
ORGANICISMOr*gan"i*cism, n. (Med.)
Defn: The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.
ORGANIFIC Or`gan*if"ic, a. Etym: [Organ + L. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See fy.]
Defn: Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs. Prof. Park.
ORGANISMOr"gan*ism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. organisme.]
1. Organic structure; organization. "The advantageous organism of the eye." Grew.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: 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.
Note: Some of the lower forms of life are so simple in structure as to be without organs, but are still called organisms, since they have different parts analogous in functions to the organs of higher plants and animals.
ORGANISTOr"gan*ist, n. Etym: [Cf. F. organiste.]
1. (Mus.)
Defn: One who plays on the organ.
2. (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: One of the priests who organized or sung in parts. [Obs.]
ORGANISTAOr`ga*nis"ta, n. Etym: [Sp., an organis.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
ORGANITYOr*gan"i*ty, n.
Defn: Organism. [R.]
ORGANIZABILITYOr`gan*i`za*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.
ORGANIZABLEOr"gan*i`za*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being organized; esp. (Biol.), capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
ORGANIZATIONOr`gan*i*za"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. organisation.]
1. 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. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.
2. The state of being organized; also, the relations included in such a state or condition. What is organization but the connection of parts in and for a whole, so that each part is, at once, end and means Coleridge.
3. That wich is organized; an organized existence; an organism; specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life. The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. McKendrick.
ORGANIZEOr"gan*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Organized; p. pr. & vb. n.Organizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. organiser, Gr. Organ.]
1. (Biol.)
Defn: 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. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray.
2. 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. This original and supreme will organizes the government. Cranch.
3. (Mus.)
Defn: To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. [R.] Busby.
ORGANIZEROr"gan*i`zer, n.
Defn: One who organizes.
ORGANLINGOr"gan*ling, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A large kind of sea fish; the orgeis.
ORGANO-Or"ga*no-. Etym: [See Organ.]
Defn: A combining form denoting relation to, or connection with, an organ or organs.
ORGANOGENOr*gan"o*gen, n. Etym: [Organo- + -gen.] (Chem.)
Defn: 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.
ORGANOGENESISOr`ga*no*gen"e*sis, n. Etym: [Organo- + genesis.]
1. (Biol.)
Defn: The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
2. (Biol.)
Defn: The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, — a branch of morphogeny. Haeckel.
ORGANOGENICOr`ga*no*gen"ic, a. (Biol.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to organogenesis.
ORGANOGENYOr`ga*nog"e*ny, n. (Biol.)
Defn: Organogenesis.
ORGANOGRAPHIC; ORGANOGRAPHICAL Or`ga*no*graph"ic, Or`ga*no*graph"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. organographique.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to organography.
ORGANOGRAPHISTOr`ga*nog"ra*phist, n.
Defn: One versed in organography.
ORGANOGRAPHYOr`ga*nog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Organo- + -graphy: cf. F. organographie.]