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Pulverized sugar candy. Crabb.

Same as Columbite.

Containing no bitumen; not bituminous.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

n the anniversary of the day of his death. The emoluments and advantages from oblations, obits, and other sources, increased in value. Milman. Post obit Etym: [L. post obitum]. See Post-obit.

In passing; incidentally; by the way. Obiter dictum (Law), an incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2(a).

Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days. Smart.

In the manner of an obituary.

Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an obituary notice; obituary poetry.

described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

Of or pertaining to an orbit. "Orbital revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

Orbital. [R.] Dunglison.

Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird.

A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira.

A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.

Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.

Orbital. [R.]

Orbation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.