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A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

The science of mountains; orography.

The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest. In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.

That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.

The science or description of mountains.

act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth. The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits. Dc Quincey.

An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.

gular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.

of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). [Written also ouzel.] Rock ousel (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Water ousel (Zoöl.), the European dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American dipper (C. Mexicanus).

The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.

To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser.

The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.

To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

To gaze; to overlook. [Poetic] "Earth's o'ergazing mountains." Byron.

An instrument for ascertaining the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, or in any gaseous mixture. Faraday.

Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.

An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.

Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.

A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.