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Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden.

Ordovician.

Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. -- n.

Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak.

Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy. Drayton.

Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.

A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.

Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.

An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

See Oroide.

A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.

Of or pertaining to oreography.

The science of mountains; orography.

ne substance which is obtained indirectly from the root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), and yields resorcin on decomposition.

A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

Same as Oarweed.

Same as Oarweed.

A bright-colored domesticated variety of the id. See Id.