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Innovation. [Obs.]

An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

To innovate. [Obs.]

Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval. "This wooden O [Globe Theater]". Shak.

blige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

ignification, came to be abusively applied to denote motive, end, final cause.... This innovation was probably borrowed from the French. Sir. W. Hamilton. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. D. Webster.

ic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it.

Like an olive. Olivary body (Anat.), an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.

(Olea Europæa) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah. Prior.

The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument. [Written also onkotomy.] Dunglison.

One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.

The development, or mode of origin, of the ova.

Ovariotomy.

Ovaritis.

An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.

The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

That which is orbiculate; especially, a solid the vertical section of which is oval, and the horizontal section circular.

nited in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred species occur in the Unite…