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with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.

A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

e has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.

A greenish yellow or green mineral, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Phoenician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E…

A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.

alm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared [in the life of the Greeks]. M. Arnold.

place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. Evelyn.

Old Testament prepared by Origen in the 3d century, containing the Hebrew text and seven Greek versions of it, arranged in eight parallel columns.

in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. -- n.

A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

d in the Latin language, and thence in the English language, as the representative of the Greek diphthong oe. In many words in common use, e alone stands instead of oe. Classicists prefer to write the diphthong oe separate in Latin words.

An annual plant (Abelmoschus, or Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo. [Written also ocra and ochra.]

; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise. "The old schools of Greece." Milton. "The character of the old Ligurians." Addison.

Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olive-green.

The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.