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A greenish yellow or green mineral, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron.

; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that obscenity has no place in wit. Dryden. No pardon vile obscenity should find. Pope.

A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcæ, Odontotormæ, and Saururæ.

Snarling; grumbling. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime.

An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.

le combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon.

Organism. [R.]

Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils. Owen.

The footmark of a bird occurring in strata of stone. Hitchcock.

The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites. Hitchcock.

A combining form fr. Gr.

Same as Monotremata. -- Or`ni*tho*del"phid, a.

A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock.

The fossil remains of a bird.

Of or pertaining to ornithology.

One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.

That branch of zoölogy which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.

Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc. Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science. De Quincey.

An aviary; a poultry house. Weale.