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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.
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Find a barefoot brother out,
One of our order, to associate me. Shak.
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The venerable order of the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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11. (Arch.) 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.
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☞ 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 .
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12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia.
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☞ 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.
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13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression.
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14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
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Coloq. Artificial order or Coloq. Artificial system . See Artificial classification, under , and Note to def. 12 above. -- Coloq. 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 open order. -- Coloq. The four Orders , Coloq. The Orders four , the four orders of mendicant friars. See . Chaucer. -- Coloq. General orders (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. 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.

-- Coloq. Minor orders (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. -- Coloq. Money order . See under . -- Coloq. Natural order . (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. -- Coloq. 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.] -- Coloq. Order in Council , a royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain] -- Coloq. Order of battle (Mil.), the particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. -- Coloq. Order of the day , in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day. -- Coloq. Order of a differential equation (Math.), the greatest index of differentiation in the equation. -- Coloq. Sailing orders (Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise. -- Coloq. Sealed orders , orders sealed, and not to be opened until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. To give order , to give command or directions. Shak. -- Coloq. To take order for , to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning.
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Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. Shak.
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Syn. -- Arrangement; management. See .
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Order (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ordering.] [From , 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.
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To him that ordereth his conversation aright. Ps. 1. 23.
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Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton.
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2. To give an order to; to command; as, to order troops to advance.
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3. To give an order for; to secure by an order; as, to order a carriage; to order groceries.
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4. (Eccl.) To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
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These ordered folk be especially titled to God. Chaucer.
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Persons presented to be ordered deacons. Bk. of Com. Prayer.
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Coloq. Order arms (Mil.), the command at which a rifle is brought to a position with its butt resting on the ground; also, the position taken at such a command.
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Order, v. i. To give orders; to issue commands.
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Orderable (?), a. Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.]
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Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.
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ordered adj. 1. having or evincing a systematic arrangement; especially, having elements succeeding in order according to rule; as, an ordered sequence; an ordered pair. Opposite of disordered or unordered. [Narrower terms: abecedarian, alphabetical; consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive ]
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2. arranged in order.
Syn. -- orderly, regulated.
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3. in good order.
Syn. -- so(predicate).
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4. disposed or placed in a particular kind of order. OPposite of disarranged.
Syn. -- arranged.
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5. arranged according to a quantitative criterion.
Syn. -- graded, ranked.
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6. marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts.
Syn. -- consistent, logical, orderly.
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Orderer (?), n. 1. One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.
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2. One who gives orders.
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Ordering, n. Disposition; distribution; management. South.
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Orderless, a. Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule.
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Orderliness (?), n. The state or quality of being orderly.
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Orderly, a. 1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton.
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2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.
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3. Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. “An orderly . . . march.” Clarendon.
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4. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders. “Aids-de-camp and orderly men.” Sir W. Scott.
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Coloq. Orderly book (Mil.), a book for every company, in which the general and regimental orders are recorded. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. Orderly sergeant , the first sergeant of a company.
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Orderly (?), adv. According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.
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You are blunt; go to it orderly. Shak.
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Orderly, n.; pl. Orderlies (�). 1. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.
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Orderlies were appointed to watch the palace. Macaulay.
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2. A street sweeper. [Eng.] Mayhew.
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Ordinability (?), n. Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.
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Ordinable (?), a. [See , .] Capable of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.]
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Ordinal (?), a. [L. ordinalis, fr. ordo, ordinis, order. See .] 1. Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc. Contrasted to cardinal.
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2. Of or pertaining to an order.
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Ordinal, n. 1. A word or number denoting order or succession.
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2. (Ch. of Eng.) The book of forms for making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) A book containing the rubrics of the Mass. [Written also ordinale.]
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Ordinalism (?), n. The state or quality of being ordinal. [R.] Latham.
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Ordinance (?), n. [OE. ordenance, OF. ordenance, F. ordonnance. See , and cf. , .]
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1. Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision. [Obs.] Spenser.
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They had made their ordinance
Of victual, and of other purveyance. Chaucer.
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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.
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Thou wilt die by God's just ordinance. Shak.
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By custom and the ordinance of times. Shak.
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Walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. Luke i. 6.
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☞ 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.).
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3. (Eccl.) An established rite or ceremony.
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4. Rank; order; station. [Obs.] Shak.
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5. [See .] Ordnance; cannon. [Obs.] Shak.
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Ordinand (?), n. [L. ordinandus, gerundive of ordinare. See .] One about to be ordained.
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Ordinant (?), a. [L. ordinans, p. pr. of ordinare. See .] Ordaining; decreeing. [Obs.] Shak.
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Ordinant, n. One who ordains. F. G. Lee.
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Ordinarily (?), adv. According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe.
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Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor.
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Ordinary (?), a. [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf. F. ordinaire. See .] 1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. “The ordinary forms of law.” Addison.
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2. Common; customary; usual. Shak.
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Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison.
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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.
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An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way. Macaulay.
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Coloq. Ordinary seaman (Naut.), one not expert or fully skilled, and hence ranking below an able seaman.
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Syn. -- Normal; common; usual; customary. See . -- , . 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.
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Ordinary, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-rĭz). 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) 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.
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2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
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I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature's salework. Shak.
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3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
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Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. Bacon.
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4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
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Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. Swift.
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He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.
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6. (Her.) 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 .
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Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. 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.
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Ordinaryship (?), n. The state of being an ordinary. [R.] Fuller.
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Ordinate (?), a. [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See .] Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. “A life blissful and ordinate.” Chaucer.
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Coloq. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.
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Ordinate, n. (Geom.) 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.
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☞ 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. In a typical two-dimensional plot, viewed on a plane graph in its normal orientation with perpendicular axes, the ordinate is the vertical axis; when the axes are labeled as x and y, it is the y-axis. See .
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Ordinate (?), v. t. To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.
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Ordinately (?), adv. In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.
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Ordination (?), n. [L. ordinatio: cf. F. ordination.] 1. The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
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The holy and wise ordination of God. Jer. Taylor.
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Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.
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2. (Eccl.) The act of setting apart to an office in the Christian ministry; the conferring of holy orders.
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3. Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.]
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Coloq. Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.
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Ordinative (?), a. [L. ordinativus.] Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.
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Ordinator (?), n. [L.] One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.
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Ordnance (?), n. [From OE. ordenance, referring orig. to the bore or size of the cannon. See .] Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war.
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All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak.
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Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Everett.
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Coloq. Ordnance survey , the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.
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Ordonnance (?), n. [F. See .] (Fine Arts) The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole.
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Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.
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Ordonnant (?), a. [F., p. pr. of ordonner. See .] Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden.
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Ordovian (?), a. & n. (Geol.) Ordovician.
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Ordovician (?), a. [From L. Ordovices, a Celtic people in Wales.] (Geol.) 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. The Ordovician formation.
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Ordure (?), n. [F. ordure, OF. ord filthy, foul, fr. L. horridus horrid. See .]
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1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.
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2. Defect; imperfection; fault. [Obs.] Holland.
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Ordurous (?), a. Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. Drayton.
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Ore (ōr), n. [AS. ār.] Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Ore, n. [AS. ōra; cf. ār brass, bronze, akin to OHG. ēr, G. ehern brazen, Icel. eir brass, Goth. ais, L. aes, Skr. ayas iron. √210. Cf. , .]
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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).
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2. (Mining) 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.
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3. Metal; as, the liquid ore. [R.] Milton.
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Coloq. Ore hearth , a low furnace in which rich lead ore is reduced; -- also called Scotch hearth. Raymond.
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Oread (?), n. [L. Oreas, -adis, Gr. 'Oreias, -ados, fr. 'oros mountain: cf. F. oréade.] (Class. Myth.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.
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Like a wood nymph light,
Oread or Dryad. Milton.
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Oreades (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See , 2.
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Orectic (?), a. [Gr. 'orektikos, fr. 'orexis, yearning after, from 'oregein to reach after.] (Philos.) Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
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