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The tendency of certain plant organs, as leaves, to assume special "sleeping" positions or make curvatures under the influence of darkness. It is well illustrated in the leaflets of clover and other leguminous plants.

Sleep. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

rkish sultan. [Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.

ethereal substance (not to be confused with the bouquet, or aroma, of wine) found in wine lees, and consisting of a complex mixture of the ethereal salts of several of the higher acids of the acetic acid series. It has an ethereal odor, and it used in flavoring artificial wines and liquors. Called also oil of wine. See…

sact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service. Bp. Stillingfleet.

prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts. Omnibus bill, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. [Parliamentary Cant, U.S.] -- Omnibus box, a large box in a theater, on a level with the stage and having communication wi…

-- indicating situation, place, or position; as, on the one hand, on the other hand; the fleet is on the American coast.

for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body, as the kidney, spleen, etc.

Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.

dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. Milton.

apart by the ceremony of ordination. Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One who ordains. F. G. Lee.

Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless. He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge. Barrow.

To spread out in array. [Obs.] And now they outray to your fleet. Chapman.

upon; as, to overlie an infant. Quain. A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. Chaucer.

hink conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

An idol. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

rment adopted among Europeans, Americans, etc., for wear in the dressing room and during sleep; also, a suit consisting of drawers and a loose upper garment for such wear.

sage in other language. We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words. Bp. Stillingfleet.