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A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.

of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

fair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle. Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand. Drayton.

Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue.

Oracular; of the nature of an oracle. [R.] "Equivocations, or oraculous speeches." Bacon. "The oraculous seer." Pope. -- O*rac"u*lous*ly, adv. -- O*rac"u*lous*ness, n.

Stormy. [R.]

See Orison. [Obs.] Shak.

Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law.

In an oral manner. Tillotson.

See Orang-outang.

al anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang- outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan.]

The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.

A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.

Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.

Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.

maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.