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nds, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination. Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Fluctuation; variation; change back and forth. His mind oscillated, undoubtedly; but the extreme points of the oscillation were not very remote. Macaulay. Axis of oscillation, Center of oscillation. See under Axis, and Center.

Same as Oscillaria.

ish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, l…

The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.

for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.] Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.

Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st Pellitory.

l differential coefficients, Partial differentiation, etc. (of a function of two or more variables), the differentials, differential coefficients, differentiation etc., of the function, upon the hypothesis that some of the variables are for the time constant. -- Partial fractions (Alg.), fractions whose sum equals a g…

A suite; a set of variations.

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.

To scrape or beat with the forefoot. His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane. Tickell.

Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. "The eternal love and pees." Chaucer.

One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. Matt. v. 9. --Peace"mak`ing, n.