English Dictionary: O'Flaherty | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Obolary \Ob"o*la*ry\, a. [See {Obolus}.] Possessing only small coins; impoverished. [R.] --Lamb. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Vigil \Vig"il\, n. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See {Wake}, v. i., and cf. {Reveille}, {Surveillance}, {Vedette}, {Vegetable}, {Vigor}.] 1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. [bd]Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months.[b8] --Macaulay. Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. --Addison. 2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned. --Milton. Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate. --Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard). 3. (Eccl.) (a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. (b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, [bd]To-morrow is St. Crispian.[b8] --Shak. (c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. {Vigils, [or] Watchings}, {of flowers} (Bot.), a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the day. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ovioular \O*vio"u*lar\, a. [L. ovum an egg.] (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an egg. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ovular \O"vu*lar\, a. (Biol.) Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ovulary \O"vu*la*ry\, a. (Biol.) Pertaining to ovules. |