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English Dictionary: o.d by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Od \Od\, n. [G., fr. Gr. [?] passage.] (Physics)
      An alleged force or natural power, supposed, by Reichenbach
      and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be
      developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light,
      chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also {odyle} or the
      {odylic force}. [Archaic]
  
               That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from
               female finger tips, burnt blue.               --Mrs.
                                                                              Browning.
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