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North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. Gray.

bligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison.

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory.

Of or pertaining to the Octodontidæ, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species.

A suborder of corals including many reef-building species, having round, starlike calicles.

lied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit. -- n.

the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process. Odontoid bone (Anat.), a separate bone, in many reptiles, corresponding to the odontoid process. -- Odontoid process, or Odontoid peg (Anat.), the anterior process of the centrum of the second vertebra, or axis, in birds and mammals. See Axis.

, 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.

on. In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms. Sir I. Newton.

Often; frequently; not rarely; many times. [Poetic] Chaucer. Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Pope.

Frequently; many times; not seldom.

Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.

A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.

A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

ded; united; constituting a whole. The church is therefore one, though the members may be many. Bp. Pearson