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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ORSELLIC a.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid. [Formerly written also orseillic.]
ORSELLINIC a.
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by a partial decomposition of orsellic acid as a white crystalline substance, and related to protocatechuic acid.
OUTDWELL v.
To dwell or stay beyond. [Poetic] "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
OUTDWELLER n.
One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [Eng.]
OUTSELL v. 2 definitions
To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.
OUTSWELL v. 2 definitions
To exceed in swelling.
OUTTELL v.
To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning. "I have outtold the clock." Beau. & Fl.
OUTWELL v. 2 definitions
To pour out. [Obs.] Spenser.
OVERMELLOW a.
Too mellow; overripe.
OVERQUELL v.
To quell or subdue completely. [R.] Bp. Hall.
OVERSELL v. 2 definitions
To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price. One whose beauty Would oversell all Italy. Beau. & Fl.
OVERSWELL v.
To swell or rise above; to overflow. [R.] Shak.
OVERWELL v.
To overflow. R. D. Blackmore.
OVICELL n.
One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.
PADELLA n.
k is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.
PANHELLENIC a.
Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.
PANHELLENISM n.
A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.
PANHELLENIST n.
An advocate of Panhellenism.
PANHELLENIUM n.
An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.
PARALLELLESS a.
Matchless. [R.]
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