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Octolocular (ŏkt�lŏk�lẽr), a. [Octo- + locular.] (Bot.) Having eight cells for seeds.
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Octonaphthene (?), n. [Octo- + naphthene.] (Chem.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.
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Octonary (?), a. [L. octonarius, fr. octoni eight each, fr. octo eight.] Of or pertaining to the number eight. Dr. H. More.
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Octonocular (?), a. [L. octoni eight each + E. ocular.] Having eight eyes. Derham.
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Octopede (?), n. [Octo- + L. pes, pedis, foot.] (Zoöl.) An animal having eight feet, as a spider.
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Octopetalous (?), a. [Octo- + petal.] (Bot.) Having eight petals or flower leaves.
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Octopod (?), n. [Gr. � eight-footed; 'oktw eight + poys, podos, foot: cf. F. octopode.] (Zoöl.) One of the Octocerata.
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Octopoda (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) (a) Same as . (b) Same as .
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Octopodia (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'oktw eight + � a little foot.] (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Octopus (?), n. [NL. See .] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See .
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2. (Zoöl.) Any member of the genus Octopus.
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3. (Fig.) Something resembling an octopus in having numerous controlling arms or branches that reach widely and influence many activities; -- used mostly of organizations, such as diversified corporations.
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Octoradiated (?), a. [Octo- + radiated.] Having eight rays.
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Octoroon (?), n. [L. octo eight + -roon, as in quadroon.] The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
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Octospermous (?), a. [Octo- + Gr. � seed.] (Bot.) Containing eight seeds.
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Octostichous (?), a. [Octo- + Gr. stichos a row.] (Bot.) In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.
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Octostyle (?), a. [Octo- + Gr. � a pillar: cf. F. octostyle.] (Arch.) Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle. See . -- n. An octostyle portico or temple.
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{ Octosyllabic (?), Octosyllabical (?), } a. [L. octosyllabus. See , and .] Consisting of or containing eight syllables.
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Octosyllable (?), a. Octosyllabic.
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Octosyllable, n. A word of eight syllables.
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octothorp, octothorpe, n. [octo- eight + thorp Etymology of thorp uncertain. (ca. 1965). See quote below. Possibly derived from octalthorpe or octotherp (once used by the Bell System?).] A typographic symbol (#) having two vertical lines intersected by two horizontal lines. It is also called the crosshatch, hash, numeral sign and number sign; in the U. S. it is commonly called the pound sign, especially to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials, but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound sign as the symbol for the British pound. It is commonly used as a symbol for the word number; as in #36 (meaning: number thirty-six).
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octothorp

Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol for the pound avoirdupois, but this usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields.
Robert Bringhurst (The Elements of Typographic Style (2d edition, 1996), Hartley & Marks, Publishers, Point Roberts, WA; Vancouver, BC, Canada, p. 282)
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Octoyl (�), n. [Octoic + -yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical (C7H15.CO.), regarded as the essential residue of octoic acid.
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Octroi (?), n. [F.] 1. A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.
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2. A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls.
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[Written also octroy.]
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Octuor (?), n. [From L. octo eight + -uor, as in L. quatuor.] (Mus.) See . [R.]
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Octuple (?), a. [L. octuplus; cf. Gr. �: cf. F. octuple.] Eightfold.
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Octyl (?), n. [Octane + -yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of octane, and as entering into its derivatives; as, octyl alcohol.
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Octylene (?), n. [Octane + ethylene.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids.
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Octylic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, octyl; as, octylic ether.
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Ocular (?), a. [L. ocularis, ocularius, fr. oculus the eye: cf. F. oculaire. See , and cf. , .] 1. Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak.
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Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.
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2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the eye; optic.
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Ocular, n. (Opt.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope.
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Ocularly, adv. By the eye, or by actual sight.
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Oculary (?), a. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines. Holland.
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{ Oculate (?), Oculated (?), } a. [L. oculatus, fr. oculus eye.] 1. Furnished with eyes.
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2. Having spots or holes resembling eyes; ocellated.
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Oculiform (?), a. [L. oculus the eye + form: cf. F. oculiforme.] In the form of an eye; resembling an eye; as, an oculiform pebble.
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Oculina (?), prop. n. [NL., fr. L. oculus the eye.] (Zoöl.) A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture.
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Oculinacea (?), prop. n. pl. [NL., fr. NL. oculina the name of a typical genus.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.
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Oculist (?), n. [L. oculus the eye: cf. F. oculiste.] One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
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Oculo- (?). A combining form from L. oculus the eye.
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Oculomotor (?), a. [Oculo- + motor.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit. -- n. The oculomotor nerve.
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Oculonasal (?), a. [Oculo- + nasal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.
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Oculus (?), n.; pl. Oculi (#). [L., an eye.] 1. An eye.
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2. (Arch.) A round window, usually a small one.
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3. (Bot.) A leaf bud.
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Ocypodian, n. [Gr. 'wkys swift + poys, podos, foot.] (Zoöl.) One of a tribe of crabs which live in holes in the sand along the seashore, and run very rapidly, -- whence the name.
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Od (?), n. [G., fr. Gr. � passage.] (Physics) An alleged force or natural power, supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force. [Archaic]
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That od force of German Reichenbach
Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. Mrs. Browning.
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Odal (?), n. [Cf. Icel. ē�al, Dan. odel allodial, Sw. odal.] (Law) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.
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Odal, a. (Law) Noting, or pert. to, odal land or ownership.
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Odalisque (?), n. [F., fr. Turk. odaliq chambermaid, fr. oda chamber, room.] A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. [Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.]
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Not of those that men desire, sleek
Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.
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{ Odalman (?), Odalwoman (?) }, n. (Teut. Law) A man or woman having , or able to share in it by inheritance.
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Odd (ŏd), a. [Compar. Odder (ŏdẽr); superl. Oddest.] [OE. odde, fr. Icel. oddi a tongue of land, a triangle, an odd number (from the third or odd angle, or point, of a triangle), orig., a point, tip; akin to Icel. oddr point, point of a weapon, Sw. udda odd, udd point, Dan. od, AS. ord, OHG. ort, G. ort place (cf. E. point, for change of meaning).] 1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.
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2. Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.
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I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Shak.
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3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra.
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Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. T. Burnet.
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There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember not. Shak.
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4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.
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5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular; peculiar; unique; strange. “An odd action.” Shak. “An odd expression.” Thackeray.
Syn. -- extraordinary; queer.
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The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is, in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. Ascham.
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Patients have sometimes coveted odd things. Arbuthnot.
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Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man to make himself master of, who would get a reputation by critical writings. Spectator.
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Syn. -- Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary; strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical; droll; comical. See .
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oddball (ŏdb�l), n. 1. A person with an unusual or odd personality; an eccentric person. [informal]
Syn. -- eccentric, eccentric person, geek.
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2. Hence: Anything unusual in its class.
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Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets. It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted markedly away from the other planets' orbits. Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost entirely of ice. Ron Cohen (Science News, Feb. 27, 1999, p. 139)

oddball (ŏdb�l), a. Eccentric; very unusual; strange; bizarre; as, an oddball request. [informal]
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Odd Fellow (?). A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
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oddity (ŏdĭt�), n.; pl. Oddities (ŏdĭtĭz). 1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
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That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne.
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2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
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odd-job adj. varied and irregularly performed; -- of paid labor; as, he found only odd-job employment. [prenominal]
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Oddly, adv. 1. In an odd manner; unevenly. [R.]
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2. In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. “A figure a little more oddly turned.” Locke.
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A great black substance, . . . very oddly shaped. Swift.
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3. (Math.) In a manner measured by an odd number.
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Oddment (?), n. [Odd + -ment.] An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows; Specif.: (Printing) Any separate small part or page in a book, other than the text, such as the title page, contents, etc.

A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic verses, and “oddments” of different kinds. Saintsbury.
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2. A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold.
Syn. -- end, remainder, remnant, scrap.
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3. Something unusual, and perhaps worthy of collecting.
Syn. -- curio, curiosity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, collectible.
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4. pl. Odds and ends; a motley assortment of things.
Syn. -- odds and ends, melange, farrago, ragbag, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, omnium-gatherum.
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Oddness, n. 1. The state of being odd, or not even.
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Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.
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2. Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event. Young.
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odd-pinnate adj. (Bot.) Pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex; -- of a leaf shape.
Syn. -- imparipinnate.
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Odds (ŏdz), n. sing. & pl. [See , a.] 1. Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability. The odds are often expressed by a ratio; as, the odds are three to one that he will win, i. e. he will win three times out of four “Preëminent by so much odds.” Milton. “The fearful odds of that unequal fray.” Trench.
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The odds
Is that we scarce are men and you are gods. Shak.
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There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift.
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All the odds between them has been the different scope . . . given to their understandings to range in. Locke.
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Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke.
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2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.
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Set them into confounding odds. Shak.
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I can not speak
Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak.
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Coloq. At odds , in dispute; at variance. “These squires at odds did fall.” Spenser. “He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds.” Shak. -- Coloq. It is odds , it is probable; same as odds are, but no longer used. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Coloq. odds are it is probable; as, odds are he will win the gold medal. -- Coloq. Odds and ends , that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. “My brain is filled . . . with all kinds of odds and ends.” W. Irving. -- Coloq. slim odds low odds; poor chances; as, there are slim odds he will win any medal.
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Ode (ōd), n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. 'w,dh a song, especially a lyric song, contr. fr. 'aoidh, fr. 'aeidein to sing; cf. Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf. , , .] A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
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Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak.
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O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.
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Coloq. Ode factor , one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.
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Odelet (?), n. A little or short ode.
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Odelsthing (?), n. [Norw. odel odal + ting parliament.] The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See .
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Odeon (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �, fr. �: cf. F. odéon. See .] A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.
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Odeum (?), n. [L.] See .
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Odible (?), a. [L. odibilis. See .] Fitted to excite hatred; hateful; odious. [Obs.] Bale.
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Odic (?), a. Of or pertaining to od. See . [Archaic] -- Odically (#), adv.
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Odin (?), prop. n. [Icel. �; prob.akin to E. wood, a. See .] (Northern Mythol.) The supreme deity of the Scandinavians; -- the same as , of the German tribes.
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There in the Temple, carved in wood,
The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow.
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Odinic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Odin.
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Odinism (?), n. Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. -- Odinist, n.

Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor. Carlyle.
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Odious (?), a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See .] 1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. “All wickedness will be most odious.” Sprat.
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He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. Clarendon.
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2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. Milton.
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The odious side of that polity. Macaulay.
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Syn. -- Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome; invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular.
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-- Odiously. adv. -- Odiousness, n.
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Odist (?), n. A writer of an ode or odes.
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Odium (ōdĭŭm), n. [L., fr. odi I hate. Cf. , .] 1. Intense hatred or dislike; loathing; abhorrence.
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2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
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She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden.
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3. The state of being intensely hated as the result of some despicable action; opprobrium; disrepute; discredit; reproach mingled with contempt; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
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Coloq. Odium theologicum (�) [L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.
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Syn. -- Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy. -- , . We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent.
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I wish I had a cause to seek him there,
To oppose his hatred fully. Shak.
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You have . . . dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. Beaconsfield.
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Odize (ōdīz or ŏdīz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Odized (ōdīzd or ŏdīzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Odizing.] To charge with od. See . [Archaic]
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Odmyl (ŏdmĭl), n. [Gr. odmh, osmh, stench + -yl.] (Chem.) A volatile liquid obtained by boiling sulphur with linseed oil. It has an unpleasant garlic odor.
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Odocoileus prop. n. A genus of North American deer.
Syn. -- genus Odocoileus.
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odograph (?), n. [Gr. odos way + -graph.] 1. A machine for registering the distance traversed by a vehicle or pedestrain.
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2. A device for recording the length and rapidity of stride and the number of steps taken by a walker.
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odometer (�dŏm�tẽr), n. [Gr. odometron, odometros, an instrument for measuring distance; odos way + metron measure: cf. F. odométre, hodométre. See also .] An instrument attached to a vehicle or connected, as by a flexible cable, to the wheel of a vehicle, which measures the distance traversed.
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2. A hodometer.
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odometrical (ōd�mĕtrĭk�l), a. [Cf. F. odométrique, hodométrique.] Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it.
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Odometrous (?), a. Serving to measure distance on a road. [R.] Sydney Smith.
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Odometry (?), n. Measurement of distances by the odometer.
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Odonata (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. 'odoys, 'odontos, a tooth.] (Zoöl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.
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Odontalgia (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �; 'odoys, 'odontos, a tooth + 'algos pain.] (Med.) Toothache.
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Odontalgic (?), a. [Cf. F. odontalgique.] Of or pertaining to odontalgia. -- n. A remedy for the toothache.
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Odontalgy (?), n. (Med.) Same as .
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Odontiasis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'odoys, 'odontos, a tooth.] Cutting of the teeth; dentition.
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Odonto- (?). A combining form from Gr. 'odoys, 'odontos, a tooth.
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Odontoblast (?), n. [Odonto- + -blast.]
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1. (Anat.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca.
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