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up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke.

Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.

An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

Quincey. Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye. That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy. Wordworth.

A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

Ocherous. [Written also ochrey, ochry.]

Ocherous.

See Ocherous.

g to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.

or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.

rmed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion.

A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oösphere by antherozoids.

Made, or being, in the form of an orb; having a circular, or nearly circular, or a spheroidal, outline. Orbiculate leaf (Bot.), a leaf whose outline is nearly circular.

A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by Keats in "Isabella," by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas," etc.

One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.

A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation.

uilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak.

A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

n, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot. I have overheard a plot of death. Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison.…