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A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive.

The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection. Johnson.

Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.

One who makes an offering as an act worship or reverence. Dr. H. More.

One who obscures; one who prevents enlightenment or hinders the progress of knowledge and wisdom. Coleridge.

as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body. 'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear. Pope.

to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing.

a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. Woodward.

riate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

sure. He was content to give them just cause of offense, when they had power to make just revenge. Sir P. Sidney.

lding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.

cess; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communic…

The communications, revelations, or messages delivered by God to the prophets; also, the entire sacred Scriptures -- usually in the plural. The first principles of the oracles of God. Heb. v. 12.

ns in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. Drayton.

A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

lls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. [Written also orpin.]

Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.