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- English Word Orpine Definition A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever.
- English Word Orrach Definition See Orach.
- English Word Orreries Definition of Orrery
- English Word Orrery Definition An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
- English Word Orris Definition A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de-luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets.
- English Word Orris Definition A sort of gold or silver lace.
- English Word Orris Definition A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
- English Word Orsedew Definition Alt. of Orsedue
- English Word Orsedue Definition Leaf metal of bronze; Dutch metal. See under Dutch.
- English Word Orseille Definition See Archil.
- English Word Orsellic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid.
- English Word Orsellinic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.
- English Word Ort Definition A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural.
- English Word Ortalidian Definition Any one of numerous small two-winged flies of the family Ortalidae. The larvae of many of these flies live in fruit; those of others produce galls on various plants.
- English Word Orthid Definition A brachiopod shell of the genus Orthis, and allied genera, of the family Orthidae.
- English Word Orthis Definition An extinct genus of Brachiopoda, abundant in the Paleozoic rocks.
- English Word Orthite Definition A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.
- English Word Ortho- Definition A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.
- English Word Ortho- Definition A combining form (also used adjectively)
- English Word Ortho- Definition The one of several acids of the same element (as the phosphoric acids), which actually occurs with the greatest number of hydroxyl groups; as, orthophosphoric acid. Cf. Normal.