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Filtering: OS | Found: 184 words.
Os
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A bone.
An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura (M. aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and ...
A tribe of southern Sioux Indians, now living in the Indian Territory.
Hosanna.
Osar
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of Os
Oscan
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Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy.
The state of oscillating; a seesaw kind of motion.
A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria.
Oscillate
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To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.
of Oscillate
Oscillating
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Oscillation
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Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth.
Tending to oscillate; vibratory.
Same as Oscillaria.
Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.
Relating to the Oscines.
Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.
Oscinian
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Any one of numerous species of dipterous files of the family Oscinidae.
Of or pertaining to the Oscines.
Oscitancy
2 defs
Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness.
Oscitant
2 defs
Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.
In an oscitant manner.
To gape; to yawn.
The act of yawning or gaping.
of Osculum
Osculant
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Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
Osculate
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To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
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Osculation
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The act of kissing; a kiss.
Osculatory
3 defs
Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordina...
of Osculatrix
One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.
Same as Oscule.
Osier
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A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name i...
Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks.
An osier bed.
One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, ca...
A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk.
of Osmanli
A salt of osmic acid.
of Osmaterium
One of a pair of scent organs which the larvae of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.
A substance formerly supposed to give to soup and broth their characteristic odor, and probably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called...
A salt of osmiamic acid.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.
The secretion of fetid sweat.
Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds; as, osmious chloride.