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The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.

reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness. I have known great cures done by obstinate resolution of drinking no wine. Sir W. Temple. No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate. Pope. Of sense and outward things. Wordsworth.

Same as Octylene.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

or producing an oil; specifically, designating a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon called ethylene. [Archaic]

Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.

The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity. Our God is one, or rather very oneness. Hooker.

Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease. [R.] Thackeray.

Too much or too frequent change; fickleness. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

pithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

Palatableness.

Paleness; pallor. [R.] Shak.

Pallidness; paleness.

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. Jer. Taylor.

ve very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

cleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively.

That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. Regular industry is the parent of sobriety. Channing. Parent cell. (Biol.) See Mother cell, under Mother, also Cytula. -- Parent nucleus (Biol.), a nucleus which, in cell division, divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter…

s usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

Littleness. [Obs.] Glanvill. Ray.