Officiate (v. i.) To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
Officiate (v. t.) To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function.
Officiator (n.) One who officiates.
Officinal (a.) Used in a shop, or belonging to it.
Officinal (a.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
Officious (a.) Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
Officious (a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
Officious (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
Offing (n.) That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.
Offish (a.) Shy or distant in manner.
Offlet (n.) A pipe to let off water.
Offscouring (n.) That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised.
Offscum (n.) Removed scum; refuse; dross.
Offset (n.) In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
Offset (n.) A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.
Offset (n.) A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
Offset (n.) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also set-off.
Offset (n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
Offset (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor.
Offset (imp. & p. p.) of Offset
Offsetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offset
Offset (v. t.) To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
Offset (v. t.) To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
Offset (v. i.) To make an offset.
Offshoot (n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Offshore (a.) From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
Offskip (n.) That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance.
Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Offuscate () Alt. of Offuscation
Offuscation () See Obfuscate, Obfuscation.
Oft (adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
Oft (a.) Frequent; often; repeated.
Often (adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.
Often (a.) Frequent; common; repeated.
Oftenness (n.) Frequency.
Oftensith (adv.) Frequently; often.
Oftentide (adv.) Frequently; often.
Oftentimes (adv.) Frequently; often; many times.
Ofter (adv.) Compar. of Oft.
Ofttimes (adv.) Frequently; often.
Ogam (n.) Same as Ogham.
Ogdoad (n.) A thing made up of eight parts.
Ogdoastich (n.) A poem of eight lines.
Ogee (n.) A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa. See Illust. under Cyma.
Ogee (n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose.
Ogeechee lime () The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.
Ogeechee lime () The tree which bears this fruit.
Ogganition (n.) Snarling; grumbling.
Ogham (n.) A particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc.
Ogive (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
Ogled (imp. & p. p.) of Ogle
Ogling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ogle
Ogle (v. t.) To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice.
Ogle (n.) An amorous side glance or look.
Ogler (n.) One who ogles.
Oglio (n.) See Olio.
Ogre (n.) An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.
Ogreish (a.) Resembling an ogre; having the character or appearance of an ogre; suitable for an ogre.
Ogress (n.) A female ogre.
Ogreism (n.) Alt. of Ogrism
Ogrism (n.) The character or manners of an ogre.
Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity.
Oh (interj.) An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.
Ohm (n.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
Oho (interj.) An exclamation of surprise, etc.
-oid () A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.
Oidium (n.) A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.
Oil (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
Oiled (imp. & p. p.) of Oil
Oiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oil
Oil (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
Oilbird (n.) See Guacharo.
Oilcloth (n.) Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.
Oiled (a.) Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.
Oiler (n.) One who deals in oils.
Oiler (n.) One who, or that which, oils.
Oilery (n.) The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.
Oiliness (n.) The quality of being oily.
Oillet (n.) A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediaeval fortifications.
Oillet (n.) A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.
Oilmen (pl. ) of Oilman
Oilman (n.) One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.
Oilnut (n.) The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.
Oilseed (n.) Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.
Oilseed (n.) A cruciferous herb (Camelina sativa).
Oilseed (n.) The sesame.
Oilskin (n.) Cloth made waterproof by oil.
Oilstone (n.) A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
Oily (superl.) Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance.
Oily (superl.) Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
Oily (superl.) Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.
Oinement (n.) Ointment.
Oinomania (n.) See oenomania.
Ointed (imp. & p. p.) of Oint
Ointing (p. pr & vb. n.) of Oint
Oint (v. t.) To anoint.