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   oxcart
         n 1: a cart that is drawn by an ox

English Dictionary: O'Groats by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxheart
n
  1. any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits
    Synonym(s): heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry
  2. large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh
    Synonym(s): heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxheart cherry
n
  1. any of several cultivated sweet cherries having sweet juicy heart-shaped fruits
    Synonym(s): heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry
  2. large heart-shaped sweet cherry with soft flesh
    Synonym(s): heart cherry, oxheart, oxheart cherry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Oxyuridae
n
  1. pinworms
    Synonym(s): Oxyuridae, family Oxyuridae
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Silky, [or] Silk-bark}, {oak}, an Australian tree
            ({Grevillea robusta}).
  
      {Green oak}, oak wood colored green by the growth of the
            mycelium of certain fungi.
  
      {Oak apple}, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the
            leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips
            confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young.
  
      {Oak beauty} (Zo[94]l.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston
            prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak.
  
      {Oak gall}, a gall found on the oak. See 2d {Gall}.
  
      {Oak leather} (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms
            leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
  
      {Oak pruner}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pruner}, the insect.
  
      {Oak spangle}, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the
            insect {Diplolepis lenticularis}.
  
      {Oak wart}, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
  
      {The Oaks}, one of the three great annual English horse races
            (the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was
            instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called
            from his estate.
  
      {To sport one's oak}, to be [bd]not at home to visitors,[b8]
            signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's
            rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Occur \Oc*cur"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Occurred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Occurring}.] [L. occurrere, occursum; ob (see {Ob-}) +
      currere to run. See {Course}.]
      1. To meet; to clash. [Obs.]
  
                     The resistance of the bodies they occur with.
                                                                              --Bentley.
  
      2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. [Obs.]
  
                     I must occur to one specious objection. --Bentley.
  
      3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present
            itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as,
            I will write if opportunity occurs.
  
                     In Scripture, though the word heir occur, yet there
                     is no such thing as [bd]heir[b8] in our author's
                     sense.                                                --Locke.
  
      4. To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be
            presented to the imagination or memory.
  
                     There doth not occur to me any use of this
                     experiment for profit.                        --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ochreate \O"chre*ate\, Ochreated \O"chre*a`ted\, a.
      1. Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing
            boots; booted.
  
                     A scholar undertook . . . to address himself
                     ochreated unto the vice chancellor.   --Fuller.
  
      2. (Bot.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as
            the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ochreate \O"chre*ate\, Ochreated \O"chre*a`ted\, a.
      1. Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing
            boots; booted.
  
                     A scholar undertook . . . to address himself
                     ochreated unto the vice chancellor.   --Fuller.
  
      2. (Bot.) Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as
            the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ocreate \O"cre*ate\, Ocreated \O"cre*a"ted\, a. [See {Ochrea}.]
      Same as {Ochreate}, {Ochreated}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ocreate \O"cre*ate\, Ocreated \O"cre*a"ted\, a. [See {Ochrea}.]
      Same as {Ochreate}, {Ochreated}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Osiered \O"siered\, a.
      Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic]
      --Collins.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxheart \Ox"heart`\, n.
      A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mountain \Moun"tain\, a.
      1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or
            living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains;
            among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines;
            mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
  
      2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
  
                     The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
  
      {Mountain antelope} (Zo[94]l.), the goral.
  
      {Mountain ash} (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
            (Sorbus) Americana}, producing beautiful bunches of red
            berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white,
            growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the
            {P. aucuparia}, or rowan tree.
  
      {Mountain barometer}, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
            transportation, used in measuring the heights of
            mountains.
  
      {Mountain beaver} (Zo[94]l.), the sewellel.
  
      {Mountain blue} (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
  
      {Mountain cat} (Zo[94]l.), the catamount. See {Catamount}.
  
      {Mountain chain}, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
            generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
  
      {Mountain cock} (Zo[94]l.), capercailzie. See {Capercailzie}.
           
  
      {Mountain cork} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
            cork in its texture.
  
      {Mountain crystal}. See under {Crystal}.
  
      {Mountain damson} (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
            {Simaruba} ({S. amarga}) growing in the West Indies, which
            affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes used in
            medicine.
  
      {Mountain dew}, Scotch whisky, so called because often
            illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]
  
      {Mountain ebony} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
            variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
            because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
            in tanning.
  
      {Mountain flax} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
            fine fibers; amianthus. See {Amianthus}.
  
      {Mountain fringe} (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
            {Fumitory}.
  
      {Mountain goat}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mazama}.
  
      {Mountain green}. (Min.)
            (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
            (b) See {Green earth}, under {Green}, a.
  
      {Mountain holly} (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
            Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
            It is found in the Northern United States.
  
      {Mountain laurel} (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
            latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
            clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
            poisonous. Called also {American laurel}, {ivy bush}, and
            {calico bush}. See {Kalmia}.
  
      {Mountain leather} (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
            leather in its texture.
  
      {Mountain licorice} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Trifolium}
            ({T. Alpinum}).
  
      {Mountain limestone} (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
            strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
            standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of {Geology}.
  
      {Mountain linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the twite.
  
      {Mountain magpie}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
            (b) The European gray shrike.
  
      {Mountain mahogany} (Bot.) See under {Mahogany}.
  
      {Mountain meal} (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
            occurring as an efflorescence.
  
      {Mountain milk} (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
            lime.
  
      {Mountain mint}. (Bot.) See {Mint}.
  
      {Mountain ousel} (Zo[94]l.), the ring ousel; -- called also
            {mountain thrush} and {mountain colley}. See {Ousel}.
  
      {Mountain pride}, [or] {Mountain green} (Bot.), a tree of
            Jamaica ({Spathelia simplex}), which has an unbranched
            palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
            leaves.
  
      {Mountain quail} (Zo[94]l.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
            pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
            plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
            chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
            and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
  
      {Mountain range}, a series of mountains closely related in
            position and direction.
  
      {Mountain rice}. (Bot.)
            (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
                  in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
            (b) An American genus of grasses ({Oryzopsis}).
  
      {Mountain rose} (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
            flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
            alpina}).
  
      {Mountain soap} (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
            color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
  
      {Mountain sorrel} (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
            digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
            greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
            Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.
  
      {Mountain sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), the European tree sparrow.
  
      {Mountain spinach}. (Bot.) See {Orach}.
  
      {Mountain tobacco} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
            montana}) of Europe; called also {leopard's bane}.
  
      {Mountain witch} (Zo[94]l.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of
            the genus {Geotrygon}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxyrrhodine \Ox*yr"rho*dine\, n. [Gr. [?][?][?] (sc. [?][?][?]);
      'oxy`s acid + [?][?][?][?] made of roses, [?][?][?][?] rose.]
      (Med.)
      A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the
      vinegar of roses. --Floyer.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oak Ridge, FL (CDP, FIPS 50638)
      Location: 28.47091 N, 81.42462 W
      Population (1990): 15388 (6298 housing units)
      Area: 11.7 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water)
   Oak Ridge, LA (village, FIPS 57205)
      Location: 32.62472 N, 91.77327 W
      Population (1990): 174 (80 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 71264
   Oak Ridge, MO (town, FIPS 53786)
      Location: 37.49977 N, 89.72959 W
      Population (1990): 202 (84 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63769
   Oak Ridge, NC
      Zip code(s): 27310
   Oak Ridge, TN (city, FIPS 55120)
      Location: 35.96274 N, 84.29616 W
      Population (1990): 27310 (12694 housing units)
      Area: 221.6 sq km (land), 11.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 37830
   Oak Ridge, TX (town, FIPS 53154)
      Location: 33.64791 N, 97.03852 W
      Population (1990): 180 (81 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Oak Ridge, TX (town, FIPS 53160)
      Location: 32.65758 N, 96.26399 W
      Population (1990): 268 (102 housing units)
      Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oak Ridge North, TX (town, FIPS 53190)
      Location: 30.15901 N, 95.44497 W
      Population (1990): 2454 (811 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oakridge, OR (city, FIPS 54100)
      Location: 43.74743 N, 122.47196 W
      Population (1990): 3063 (1371 housing units)
      Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 97463
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