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Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. -- O"din*ist, n.

Serving to measure distance on a road. [R.] Sydney Smith.

A long, broad boat used by the Eskimos.

sage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide open and un…

A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers.

Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out. "My shoulder blade is out." Shak. He hath been out (of the country) nine years. Shak.

A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty.

e for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.

Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.

Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

Over the sea; abroad. Milton. Tennyson.

A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer.

The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

cted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. Parallelogram of velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both i…

led, mine are general." Shak. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson.

ses off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.