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Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or…

Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes; as, olitory seeds. At convenient distance towards the olitory garden. Evelyn.

A laboratory. [Obs.]

ons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions. An oratory [temple] . . . in worship of Dian. Chaucer. Do not omit thy prayers for want of a good oratory, or place to pray in. Jer. Taylor. Fathers of the Oratory (R. C. Ch.), a society of priests founded by St. Philip Neri, living in…

haracterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion.

Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. "The osculatory ceremony." Thackeray.

The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.

Palliative; extenuating.

Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster. [Obs.] Milton.

Pellitory. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.

ve; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither. Jer. Taylor.

Emitting perfume; perfuming. [R.] Sir E. Leigh.

ote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. Macaulay.

Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.

Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. Sir W. Hamilton. Petitory suit or action (Admiralty Law), a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burril…

A kind of transparent reliquary with an ornamental top.

Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing. Addison.

Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. [Obs.] Clayton.