• OR
adv. 1. early, at an early hour …c950 obs.
adv. 2. at a former time, on a former occasion; formerly, before …c1205 obs.
adv. 3. earlier, sooner …c1330 obs.
• ORACLE
n. 1. an utterance of deep import or wisdom; an opinion or declaration regarded as authoritative and infallible; undeniable truth …1569
n. 2. an injunction or command of the Pope …1579 obs.
n. 3. a person of great wisdom or knowledge whose opinions or decisions are generally accepted; an authority reputed or affecting to be infallible …1596
n. 4. a wise or prudent answer …1638
n. 5. the female genitals …19C Brit. sl.
• ORACULAR
adj. 1820 – of mysterious portent; ominous, portentous
• ORACULOUS
adj. 1. 1612 rare or obs. – agreeing with reality
adj. 2. 1625 rare or obs. – abstruse, profound, obscure
• ORAFLE
n. a1425 obs. – a giraffe
• ORAFU’
adj. Bk1905 Sc. – gluttonous, greedy
• ORAGE
n. c1477 obs. – a violent or tempestuous wind; a storm
• ORAGIOUS
adj. c1590 rare – stormy, tempestuous
• ORAL CALISTHENICS
n. boasting …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• ORALIST
n. a correct or model speaker …1867 rare
• ORALITY
n. the quality of being oral, or orally communicated …1666 rare
• ORANGE
n. 1. the female genitals …18C Brit. sl.
n. 2. a Dexedrine™ tablet, an amphetamine …M20 US drug culture sl.
• ORANGE-APPLE
n. an orange …1561 obs.
• ORANGE-BERRY
n. an immature orange …1886
• ORANGE-BUD
n. a strain of marijuana …2001 UK sl.
• ORANGE JUICE
n. California rain …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• ORANGEMAN
n. a Protestant Irishman; a Netherlander …1967 Amer. dial.
• ORANGE MUSHROOMS
n. the drug LSD …M20 US drug culture sl.
• ORANGER
n. an orange …1793 Sc.
• ORANGES
n. the human breasts …20C US sl.
• ORANGE SUNSHINE
n. the drug LSD …M20 US drug culture sl.
• ORANGE WEDGES
n. the drug LSD …M20 US drug culture sl.
• ORANGEY
n. a Protestant Irishman; a Netherlander …1895 Amer. dial.
• ORANGIST
n. a cultivator of oranges …1693 obs. rare
• O RARE!
int. an exclamation …1596 obs.
• ORARIAN
adj. dwelling on the coast, living by the seashore …1870 rare
n. a dweller on the seashore …1870 rare
• ORATE
vb. to pray; to plead …c1600 obs.
• ORATION
n. 1. a prayer, petition, or supplication to God; orison …c1375 obs.
n. 2. a confused noise or uproar; a clamour, disturbance; a hubbub; a fuss; noisy public talk or rumour …1828 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a large number; a long row …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to make a speech or oration; to speechify …1633
• ORATIONER
n. one who makes an oration; an orator or speaker …1765 rare
• ORATIUNCLE
n. a short oration …1832 rare
• ORATOR
n. 1. one who pleads or argues in favour of a person or cause; an advocate, a spokesman …c1374 obs.
n. 2. one who offers a prayer or petition; a petitioner or suppliant …1433 obs.
n. 3. one sent to plead or speak for another; an ambassador, an envoy, a messenger …1494 obs.
n. 4. an eloquent writer …1587 obs. rare
• ORATORESS
n. a female public speaker …1819
• ORATORIAL
adj. pert. to an orator …1546 rare
• ORATORIAN
adj. pert. to an orator …1644 obs.
• ORATORIC
adj. pert. to a speaker …1656
• ORATORICAL
adj. 1. pert. to a speaker …1634
adj. 2. making a speech …1801
• ORATORIO
n. a pulpit …1631 obs.
• ORATORIOUS
adj. pert. to an orator; of the nature of an oratory …1563 obs.
• ORATORIOUSLY
adv. after the manner of an orator; rhetorically; eloquently …1563 obs.
• ORATORIZE
vb. to play the orator; to deliver an oration; to speechify …1620
• ORATORY
adj. pert. to an orator; oratorial; rhetorical …1534 obs.
n. 1. a place of prayer; a small chapel or shrine …a1300
n. 2. the delivery of orations or speeches; rhetorical or eloquent language …1588
n. 3. the art of the orator or of public speaking; the art of speaking eloquently according to definite rules, so as to please or persuade; rhetoric …1593
n. 4. a place for public speaking …1613 obs.
• ORATOUR
n. a place of prayer; a small chapel or shrine; a room or building for private worship …a1300 obs.
• ORATOURLY
adv. in the manner of an orator …1549 Sc. obs. rare
• ORATRESS
n. 1. a female pleader, petitioner, or plaintiff …1586 obs.
n. 2. a female public speaker …1595
• ORATRICE
n. 1. a female pleader, plaintiff, petitioner, or offerer of prayers …1432 obs.
n. 2. a female public speaker …1653 obs.
• ORATRICLE
n. a little or insignificant petitioner …1574 obs. rare
• ORATRIX
n. 1. a female petitioner or plaintiff …1464 obs.
n. 2. a female public speaker …1592
• ORB
adj. bereaved, childless …1607 obs.
n. 1. a circle, or anything of circular form, as a circular disc or wheel, or a ring …1590 rare or obs.
n. 2. the globe of the eye; the eyeball; the eye …a1600 poetic
n. 3. the earth, the world …1601 obs.
• ORBAL
adj. of the nature of an orb; circular …1603 obs. rare
• ORBATE
adj. orphaned, bereaved, destitute …1525 obs.
• ORBATION
n. bereavement, deprivation of parents, children or the like …1623 obs.
• ORBED
adj. 1. bereaved …1616 obs. rare
adj. 2. fully rounded like a perfect circle …1864
• ORBELL
n. a circular surface or plot …1635 obs. rare
• ORBIC
adj. of the form of an orb; rounded, orbicular …1619 rare
• ORBICAL
adj. of the form of an orb; rounded, orbicular …1582 obs.
• ORBICLE
n. a small orb, globe, or ball …1610 obs.
• ORBICULAR
adj. round as a circle or disc; circular, or of circular plan or section …c1420
• ORBICULATION
n. the formation of an orb, circle, or sphere; rounding …1647 obs.
• ORBIT
n. the eyeball, the eye …1728
• ORBITUDE
n. the condition of being bereaved; bereavement, esp. of child; also, childlessness …1623 obs. rare
• ORBITY
n. the condition of being bereaved; bereavement, esp. of child; also, childlessness …1597 obs.
• ORBY
adj. 1. of the form of a circle …c1611 rare
adj. 2. moving as in a circle, revolving …1615 rare
• ORCADIAN
adj. pert. to Orkney …1821
n. a native or inhabitant of Orkney …1661
• ORCHARD
n. 1. a garden for herbs and fruit-trees …c1000 obs.
n. 2. the female genitals …19C Brit. sl.
• ORCHARD BEEF
n. venison …1987 Amer. dial.
• ORCHARDING
n. land laid out or planted with fruit trees …1721 chiefly Amer. obs.
• ORCHAT
n. an orchard …1708 obs.
• ORCHEMATICAL
adj. pert. to dancing …1583 obs. rare
• ORCHESOGRAPHY
n. the description or notation of dancing by means of diagrams, etc. …1706 rare
• ORCHESTIC
adj. pert. to dancing …1850
• ORCHESTICS
n. the art of dancing …1850
• ORCHESTRA
n. 1. in the ancient Greek theatre: a large semi-circular space in front of the stage where the chorus danced and sang …1606
n. 2. a homosexual male who will perform anything sexual with any object or body part …M20 US homosexual sl.
• ORCHESTRAN
adj. pert. to or performed by an orchestra …1765 obs. rare
• ORCHESTRAS
n. the testicles …19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘balls’ (Orchestra Stalls)
• ORCHESTRA STALLS
n. the testicles …19C Brit. rhyming sl. for ‘balls’
• ORCHESTRIC
adj. 1. pert. to dancing …1786
adj. 2. belonging to an orchestra …1839
• ORCHIDACEAN
n. one who devotes himself to the cultivation of orchids; an orchid fancier …1887 rare
• ORCHIDACEOUS
adj. resembling an orchid in some ways, esp. in being showy …1864
• ORCHIDEAL
adj. pert. to or characteristic of an orchid …1848 rare
• ORCHIDEAN
adj. pert. to or characteristic of an orchid …1857 rare
• ORCHIDIST
n. a cultivator of orchids; an orchid fancier …1881
• ORCHIDOLOGIST
n. one versed in the branch of botany dealing with orchids …1881
• ORCHIDOLOGY
n. the branch of botany dealing with orchids …1885
• ORCHIDOMANIA
n. a craze for orchids …1849
• ORCHIDOPHILIST
n. a lover of orchids …1882
• ORCHIDS TO YOU!
int. a curse; balls to you! …E20 Brit. sl.
• ORCHLE
n. a porch …Bk1905 Sc.
• ORCOST
n. want of means, penury, indigence, poverty …a1225 obs. rare
• ORD
n. 1. a point, esp. of a weapon; hence, a pointed weapon, a spear …c897 obs.
n. 2. point of origin, beginning …c897 obs.
• ORDAIN
vb. 1. to arrange in rows or ranks, or other regular order; esp. to draw up in order of battle; to set in array; to array, to marshal, to order …c1290 obs.
vb. 2. to set in proper order or position; to arrange; to keep in due order; to regulate, to govern, to direct, to manage, to conduct …c1300 obs.
vb. 3. to appoint a person, etc. to a charge, duty, or office …a1300 obs.
vb. 4. to destine to a lot or fate …a1300 obs.
vb. 5. to plan, to devise, to contrive …1340 obs.
vb. 6. to assign to anyone as a share, portion, or allowance; to allot …1375 obs.
vb. 7. to determine, to settle, to resolve …1375 obs.
vb. 8. to order, to command, to bid a person to do something, or that a thing be done …1375 obs. or arch.
vb. 9. to put in order for a purpose; to prepare, to make ready, to equip; to furnish, to provide …1375 obs.
vb. 10. of trees: to prune …1875 Eng. dial.
• ORDAINER
n. one who puts or keeps in order; a manager, a director, a ruler …c1290 obs.
• ORDALIAN
adj. pert. to ordeal …1608-11 obs.
• ORD AND END
n. the beginning and end …c1000 obs.
• ORDER
n. 1. regular or customary mode of procedure; a method of action; a customary practice; an established usage …1461 obs.
n. 2. a rank, row, series; one of several parallel series behind or above one another …1563 obs.
n. 3. form, shape as resulting from arrangement …1578 obs.
n. 4. confusion, tumult, larking, pranks…Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to settle, to determine …1523 obs.
vb. 2. to be in order or readiness; to make ready, to prepare …1526 obs.
vb. 3. to bring into order or submission to lawful authority; hence, to inflict disciplinary punishment on; to correct, to chastise, to punish …1526 obs.
vb. 4. to conduct oneself; to behave …1535 arch.
vb. 5. to class, to rank …1662 obs. rare
• ORDERABLE
adj. capable of being ordered or directed; amenable to direction or control …1641 rare
• ORDERATION
n. ordering, management …1849 Eng. dial.
• ORDERED
adj. made ready, prepared …1579 obs.
• ORDERLY
adj. conformable to established order or rule; regular …1581 obs.
n. a man whose constant work it is to keep the streets clean …1851-61
• ORDERLY BUFF
n. an orderly sergeant, the sergeant acting as officer of the day …1925 Brit. sl.
• ORDERLY DOG
n. an orderly corporal, a corporal attending an officer to carry orders or messages …1925 Brit. sl.
• ORDERLY PIG
n. an orderly officer; the officer of the day …1943 Brit. services’ sl.
• ORDER OF THE DAY
n. the prevailing rule or custom of the time …1792
• ORDER-WORD
n. the military password of the day, a watchword …1898
• ORDINAL
adj. conformable to order, rule, or custom; regular, ordinary, orderly …c1380 obs.
n. a book containing rules, or a body of rules or regulations …1390 obs.
• ORDINANCE
n. 1. arrangement in ranks or rows; esp. in order of battle; battle array or a mode of battle array; also, a display of military force; a host in array …c1330 obs.
n. 2. the act of ordering or regulating; regulation, direction, management; authoritative appointment or dispensation; control …c1330 arch.
n. 3. the arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, planning; a device, contrivance, plan …a1330 obs.
n. 4. the act or process of making ready, preparing, or providing; preparation, provision, equipment; a preparatory step or measure; hence, the result of such …c1374 obs.
n. 5. material adjuncts, apparatus, furniture …1475 obs.
n. 6. warlike provision, equipment, or stores …1475 obs.
vb. to furnish with ordnance or military equipment, esp. artillery …1531 obs. rare
• ORDINANT
adj. able to order or direct …c1400 obs.
• ORDINAR
adj. ordinary, usual, commonplace …1508 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• ORDINARY
adj. 1. conformable to order or rule; regular; orderly, methodical …1529 obs.
adj. 2. of common or everyday occurrence; frequent; abundant …1597 obs.
adj. 3. commonly practised or experienced; common, customary, usual …1605 obs.
adj. 4. pert. to or characteristic of the common people; common, vulgar; unrefined, low, coarse …1659 obs.
adj. 5. inferior, poor, worthless, contemptible, immoral …1800 Amer. dial.
adj. 6. unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate, ill-tempered …1800 Amer. dial.
adj. 7. physically plain; commonplace; unattractive …M19
adv. in an ordinary manner; commonly, ordinarily …1596 obs.
n. 1. a lecture read at regular or stated times …1432-50 obs.
n. 2. a prescribed or customary course or procedure; regular custom or wont; habit, usual course …c1450 obs.
n. 3. customary fare; a regular daily meal or allowance of food; by extension, a fixed portion, an allowance of anything …1481 obs.
n. 4. an eating-house or tavern where public meals are provided at a fixed price; a dining-room in such a building …1590
n. 5. a stage prompter …1602 obs.
n. 6. something of usual or commonplace character …1624 rare
n. 7. a tavern or inn …1637 Amer. dial.
n. 8. a courier conveying dispatches or letters at regular intervals; hence, post, mail …1667 obs.
n. 9. the usual state of health …1880 Sc.
• THE ORDINARY
n. what is customary or usual …L19
• ORDINATE
adj. 1. observant of order; keeping within orderly limits; orderly, regular, moderate, temperate …c1374 obs.
adj. 2. ordered, arranged, disposed; destined, appointed …1398 obs.
adj. 3. reduced to order, ordered, regulated; orderly, regular …c1400 obs.
vb. 1. to appoint authoritatively to any office …1562 obs.
vb. 2., to order, to regulate, to control, to govern, to direct …1595 rare or obs.
vb. 3. to institute, to establish, to predestine …1610 rare or obs.
• ORDINATELY
adv. in an ordered or regulated manner; in due order, in regular succession or sequence; according to order or rule; regularly; properly, duly, temperately …1382 obs.
• ORDINATION
n. 1. an ordinance, decree, statute, law; a prescribed observance …1526 obs.
n. 2. appointment to any office or position …1650 obs.
n. 3. the act of ordering, arranging, or disposing in ranks or order; the condition of being ordered or arranged …1658
• ORDINATIVE
adj. having the character or function of ordering, determining, or regulating; of the nature of ordering …1605 rare
• ORDINATOR
n. one who orders, regulates, directs, or governs …1615 obs.
• ORDNANCE
n. military materials, stores, or supplies; implements of war; missiles discharged in war; artillery …1390 obs.
• ORDONNANT
adj. that arranges, or puts in order …1820-30 rare
• ORD ROT IT!
int. a mild oath, “God rot it!” …M18 euphemism
• ORDURE
n. 1. filth, dirt …a1300 arch.
n. 2. foul language ‘thrown’ at a person …c1374
• ORDURED
adj. defiled with ordure, polluted …c1595 obs.
• ORDURING
n. the voiding of ordure; defecation …1654 obs.
• ORDUROUS
adj. of the nature of ordure, filthy …1593 obs.
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