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Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. Milton. This is most opportune to our need. Shak. -- Op`por*tune"ly, adv. -- Op`por*tune"ness, n.

The art or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances, or of seeking immediate advantage with little regard for ultimate consequences. [Recent]

One who advocates or practices opportunism. [Recent]

able combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon.

The orotund voice or utterance Rush.

The orotund mode of intonation.

Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.

Same as Ovate-rotundate.

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

A salt of polytungstic acid.

Containing several tungsten atoms or radicals; as, polytungstic acid. Polytungstic acid (Chem.), any one of several complex acids of tungsten containing more than one atom of tungsten.

Polytungstic. See Metatungstic.

To importune again.

To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence. Ray. Cudworth.

A rotunds. [Obs.] Burke.

antheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

Rounded; especially, rounded at the end or ends, or at the corners.

Having round leaves.