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To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A writer of an ode or odes.

A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.

taining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

n reputed uncommonly wise; one whose decisions are regarded as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. "Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.

by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

l or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. Sir. W. Hamilton.

Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev.

One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists. Sir J. Shore.

An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.] Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland.

ng else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. "The logical outcome." H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.

To obliterate. [Obs.] Sandys.

An arbiter.

An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters, previously selected, disagree.

Literally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.

The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.

The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.

A writer of palindromes.

to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.