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Quality of being obese; obesity.

The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

execute the commands of; to yield submission to; to comply with the orders of. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1. Was she the God, that her thou didst obey Milton.

One who yields obedience. Holland.

Obediently; submissively.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

Anaërobic bacteria. They are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

To make or keep sober. [Obs.] Gower.

A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.

Bilobate.

The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.

A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like. Milton.

Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition. He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open disobedience. Tillotson.

Disobedience.

Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; -- applied to persons and acts. This disobedient spirit in the colonies. Burke. Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. 1 Kings xiii. 26.

In a disobedient manner.

Disobedience. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Disobedient. [Obs.] Chaucer.