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- English Word Orgeis Definition See Organling.
- English Word Orgiastic Definition Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies.
- English Word Orgies Definition A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry.
- English Word Orgies Definition Drunken revelry; a carouse.
- English Word Orgies Definition of Orgy
- English Word Orgillous Definition Proud; haughty.
- English Word Orgue Definition Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack.
- English Word Orgue Definition A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.
- English Word Orgulous Definition See Orgillous.
- English Word Orgy Definition A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies
- English Word Orgyia Definition A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.
- English Word Oricalche Definition See Orichalch.
- English Word Orichalceous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass.
- English Word Orichalch Definition A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.
- English Word Oriel Definition A gallery for minstrels.
- English Word Oriel Definition A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess.
- English Word Oriel Definition A bay window. See Bay window.
- English Word Oriency Definition Brightness or strength of color.
- English Word Orient Definition Rising, as the sun.
- English Word Orient Definition Eastern; oriental.