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enus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvæ in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.

See Orchestra.

Any species of amphipod crustacean of the genus Orchestia, or family Orchestidæ. See Beach flea, under Beach.

A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of co…

Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

See Orchestra.

Orchestral.

A large music box imitating a variety of orchestral instruments.

To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting. [R.] Shak.

To extort; to draw from or forth by violence. [Obs.] Spenser.

Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.

Uppermost; outermost. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.

To estimate too highly; to overvalue.

Modest to excess; bashful. -- O"ver*mod"est*ly, adv.

To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh.

To wrest or force from the natural or proper position. Shak.

To subdue by wrestling. [Obs.] Spenser.

An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.