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A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.

ily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.

Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.

To oppose. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree. [Eng.] Todd.

One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe. Macaulay.

Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.

An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmoni…

Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.

A colorless gaseous substance (O

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

A patron; a protector.

An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

The ketone of palmitic acid.

The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. [R.] Lamb.

The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.

ormed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.