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   oddness
         n 1: the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)
         2: eccentricity that is not easily explained [syn: {oddity},
            {oddness}]

English Dictionary: outing by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Oddone Colonna
n
  1. Italian pope from 1417 to 1431 whose election as pope ended the Great Schism (1368-1431)
    Synonym(s): Martin V, Oddone Colonna
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
out-migration
n
  1. migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
    Synonym(s): emigration, out-migration, expatriation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outing
n
  1. a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"
    Synonym(s): excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
  2. a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
    Synonym(s): field day, outing, picnic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outmost
adj
  1. situated at the farthest possible point from a center
    Synonym(s): outermost, outmost
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oddness \Odd"ness\, n.
      1. The state of being odd, or not even.
  
                     Take but one from three, and you not only destroy
                     the oddness, but also the essence of that number.
                                                                              --Fotherby.
  
      2. Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity;
            uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the
            oddness of an event. --Young.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odinic \O*din"ic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Odin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odinism \O"din*ism\, n.
      Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. --
      {O"din*ist}, n.
  
               Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler
               kind of valor.                                       --Carlyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odinism \O"din*ism\, n.
      Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. --
      {O"din*ist}, n.
  
               Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler
               kind of valor.                                       --Carlyle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drinker \Drink"er\, n.
      One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also,
      one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
  
      {Drinker moth} (Zo[94]l.), a large British moth ({Odonestis
            potatoria}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otto engine \Otto engine\
      An engine using the Otto cycle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Head \Head\, n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[a0]fod; akin to
      D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[94]fu[?], Sw.
      hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubip. The word does not
      corresponds regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief},
      {Cadet}, {Capital}), and its origin is unknown.]
      1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the
            brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth,
            and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll;
            cephalon.
  
      2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an
            inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to
            resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger,
            thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from
            the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge;
            as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a
            sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the
            end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam
            boiler.
  
      3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed,
            of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the
            hood which covers the head.
  
      4. The most prominent or important member of any organized
            body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a
            school, a church, a state, and the like. [bd]Their princes
            and heads.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia).
  
                     The heads of the chief sects of philosophy.
                                                                              --Tillotson.
  
                     Your head I him appoint.                     --Milton.
  
      5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or
            foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table;
            the head of a column of soldiers.
  
                     An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke
                     Marlborough at the head of them.         --Addison.
  
      6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a
            plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle.
  
                     It there be six millions of people, there are about
                     four acres for every head.                  --Graunt.
  
      7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding;
            the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good
            mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him;
            of his own head, of his own thought or will.
  
                     Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay.
  
      8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream
            or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of
            the source, or the height of the surface, as of water,
            above a given place, as above an orifice at which it
            issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from
            motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a
            mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet
            head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from
            the outlet or the sea.
  
      9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak.
  
      10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be
            expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon.
  
      11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force;
            height.
  
                     Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into
                     corruption.                                       --Shak.
  
                     The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is
                     at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly
                     make an end of me or of itself.         --Addison.
  
      12. Power; armed force.
  
                     My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a
            head of hair. --Swift.
  
      14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small
            cereals.
  
      15. (Bot.)
            (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies,
                  thistles; a capitulum.
            (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a
                  lettuce plant.
  
      16. The antlers of a deer.
  
      17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or
            other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer.
  
      18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight.
  
      Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
               combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf.
               {Head}, a.
  
      {A buck of the first head}, a male fallow deer in its fifth
            year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak.
  
      {By the head}. (Naut.) See under {By}.
  
      {Elevator head}, {Feed head}, etc. See under {Elevator},
            {Feed}, etc.
  
      {From head to foot}, through the whole length of a man;
            completely; throughout. [bd]Arm me, audacity, from head to
            foot.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Head and ears}, with the whole person; deeply; completely;
            as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.]
           
  
      {Head fast}. (Naut.) See 5th {Fast}.
  
      {Head kidney} (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs
            of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates;
            the pronephros.
  
      {Head money}, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton.
  
      {Head pence}, a poll tax. [Obs.]
  
      {Head sea}, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls
            against her course.
  
      {Head and shoulders}.
            (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and
                  shoulders. [bd]They bring in every figure of speech,
                  head and shoulders.[b8] --Felton.
            (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a
                  great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head
                  and shoulders above them.
  
      {Head or tail}, this side or that side; this thing or that;
            -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice,
            guestion, or stake, head being the side of the coin
            bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there
            is no head or face on either side, that side which has the
            date on it), and tail the other side.
  
      {Neither head nor tail}, neither beginning nor end; neither
            this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a
            phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused;
            as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter.
            [Colloq.]
  
      {Head wind}, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the
            vessel's course.
  
      {Out one's own head}, according to one's own idea; without
            advice or co[94]peration of another.
  
      {Over the head of}, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outdo \Out*do"\, v. t. [imp. {Outdid}; p. p. {Outdone}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Outdoing}.]
      To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
  
               An imposture outdoes the original.         --L' Estrange.
  
               I grieve to be outdone by Gay.               --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outing \Out"ing\, n.
      1. The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a
            summer outing.
  
      2. A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time.
            [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outmeasure \Out*meas"ure\, v. t.
      To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. --Sir
      T. Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outmost \Out"most`\, a. [OE. outemest, utmest, AS. [?]temest, a
      superl. fr. [?]te out. See {Out}, {Utmost}, and cf.
      {Outermost}.]
      Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward;
      outermost.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outness \Out"ness\, n.
      1. The state of being out or beyond; separateness.
  
      2. (Metaph.) The state or quality of being distanguishable
            from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and
            possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity.
  
                     The outness of the objects of sense.   --Sir W.
                                                                              Hamiltom.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outnoise \Out*noise"\, v. t.
      To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. [R.] --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outtongue \Out*tongue"\, v. t.
      To silence by talk, clamor, or noise. [R.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outwing \Out*wing"\, v. t.
      To surpass, exceed, or outstrip in flying. --Garth.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Outing, MN
      Zip code(s): 56662

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   ODMG
  
      {Object Data Management Group}
  
  
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