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See Obi.

Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man. B. Edwards.

Obedient. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames.

One yielding obedience. [Obs.] Foxe.

Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey; submissive to restraint, control, or command. And floating straight, obedient to the stream. Shak. The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command. Pope.

According to the rule of obedience. [R.] An obediental subjection to the Lord of Nature. Sir M. Hale.

In an obedient manner; with obedience.

Obedience. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Obeisance. [Obs.]

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

The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina where the closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.

Formed like an obelisk.

es, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

To designate with an obelus; to mark as doubtful or spirituous. [R.]

A mark [thus ---, or ÷]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.

To ride about. [Obs.] -- Ob*eq`ui*ta"tion, n. [Obs.] Cockerman.

The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab. Shak.

A wandering about. [Obs.] Jonhson.

Excessively corpulent; fat; fleshy.