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Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.

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

Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.

Ovate.

An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. [Archaic]

Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.

Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.

Half ovate.

f an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

Subovate. [R.]

Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

including several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.