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Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.

A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.

production, or bringing into being. This eruca is propagated by animal parents, to wit, butterflies, after the common origination of all caterpillars. Ray.

earness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance. -- n.

The art of uttering words corectly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.

One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.

A prophetic or ominous utterance. [R. & Obs.] Holland.

A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.

To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. [R.] Milton.

he outer stump in cricket; the outer world. Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter) barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.

Utterly; entirely. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of. Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn. Spenser. Men and gods have not outlearned it [love]. Emerson.

Completely; utterly. Cardinal Manning.

rs; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty (Zoöl.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia…

Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.

urs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmita…

ongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.

Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.] We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.