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Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted. A scholar undertook...to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor. Fuller.

Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet.

Shaped like an egg.

The science of eggs in relation to their coloring, size, shape, and number.

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.

a meal; a fragment; refuse; -- commonly used in the plural. Milton. Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave. Shak.

To surpass in begging. [R.]

Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. [Obs.]

The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.

Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. [R.] Thomson.

Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.

Waterproof leggings. R. D. Blackmore.

Of or pertaining to an egg.

Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf.

Bearing eggs; oviferous.

An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -opposed to Vivipara.