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   occupancy
         n 1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: {occupancy},
               {tenancy}]
         2: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building;
            "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy
            is illegal" [syn: {occupation}, {occupancy}, {moving in}]

English Dictionary: occupant by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
occupancy rate
n
  1. the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
occupant
n
  1. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
    Synonym(s): resident, occupant, occupier
    Antonym(s): nonresident
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Okefenokee Swamp
n
  1. a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
os sphenoidale
n
  1. butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull [syn: sphenoid bone, sphenoid, os sphenoidale]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
n
  1. Russian poet who died in a prison camp (1891-1938) [syn: Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Mandelshtam]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Osip Mandelstam
n
  1. Russian poet who died in a prison camp (1891-1938) [syn: Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Mandelshtam]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxybenzene
n
  1. a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally
    Synonym(s): carbolic acid, phenol, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxyphenbutazone
n
  1. an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis
    Synonym(s): oxyphenbutazone, Tandearil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxyphencyclimine
n
  1. an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers
    Synonym(s): oxyphencyclimine, Daricon
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]:
   Spangle \Span"gle\, n. [OE. spangel, dim. of AS. spange. See
      {Spang} a spangle.]
      1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something
            brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on
            the dress.
  
      2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. [bd]The
            rich spangles that adorn the sky.[b8] --Waller.
  
      {Oak spangle}. See under {Oak}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Occupancy \Oc"cu*pan*cy\, n. [See {Occupant}.]
      The act of taking or holding possession; possession;
      occupation.
  
      {Title by occupancy} (Law), a right of property acquired by
            taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a
            thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it.
            --Blackstone. Kent.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Occupant \Oc"cu*pant\, n. [L. occupans, p. pr. of occupare: cf.
      F. occupant. See {Occupy}.]
      1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the
            actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.
  
      Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes
               the first possession of a thing that has no owner.
  
      2. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Marston.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Occupied}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Occupying}.] [OE. occupien, F. occuper, fr.L. occupare;
      ob (see {Ob-}) + a word akin to capere to take. See
      {Capacious}.]
      1. To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to
            possess.
  
                     Woe occupieth the fine [/end] of our gladness.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
                     The better apartments were already occupied. --W.
                                                                              Irving.
  
      2. To hold, or fill, the dimensions of; to take up the room
            or space of; to cover or fill; as, the camp occupies five
            acres of ground. --Sir J. Herschel.
  
      3. To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the
            service of; to employ; to busy.
  
                     An archbishop may have cause to occupy more
                     chaplains than six.                           --Eng. Statute
                                                                              (Hen. VIII. )
  
                     They occupied themselves about the Sabbath. --2
                                                                              Macc. viii.
                                                                              27.
  
      4. To do business in; to busy one's self with. [Obs.]
  
                     All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were
                     in thee to occupy the merchandise.      --Ezek. xxvii.
                                                                              9.
  
                     Not able to occupy their old crafts.   --Robynson
                                                                              (More's
                                                                              Utopia).
  
      5. To use; to expend; to make use of. [Obs.]
  
                     All the gold that was occupied for the work. --Ex.
                                                                              xxxviii. 24.
  
                     They occupy not money themselves.      --Robynson
                                                                              (More's
                                                                              Utopia).
  
      6. To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] --Nares.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ooze leather \Ooze leather\
      Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically
      forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft,
      finely granulated finish (called sometimes
  
      {velvet finish}) put on the flesh side for special purposes.
            Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in
            bookbinding, etc. Hence
  
      {Ooze calf},
  
      {Ooze finish}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ossifying \Os"si*fy`ing\, a. (Physiol.)
      Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ossified}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Ossifying}.] [L. os, ossis, bone + -fy: cf. F. ossifier.
      See {Osseous}.]
      1. (Physiol.) To form into bone; to change from a soft animal
            substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
  
      2. Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. --Ruskin.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxbane \Ox"bane`\, n. (Bot.)
      A poisonous bulbous plant ({Buphane toxicaria}) of the Cape
      of Good Hope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxybenzene \Ox`y*ben"zene\, n. [Oxy
      (b) + benzene.] (Chem.) Hydroxy benzene. Same as {Phenol}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxybenzoic \Ox`y*ben*zo"ic\, a. [Oxy
      (b) + benzoic.] (Chem.) Hydroxybenzoic; pertaining to, or
            designating, any one of several hydroxyl derivatives of
            benzonic acid, of which the commonest is salicylic acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxyphenic \Ox`y*phe"nic\, a. [Oxy- (b) + phenol.] (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called
      oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See
      {Pyrocatechin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxyphenol \Ox`y*phe"nol\, n. (Chem.)
      A phenol, [?][?][?][?][?], produced by the distillation of
      catechin; called also {oxyphenic acid}, and now
      {pyrocatechin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxyphenol \Ox`y*phe"nol\, n. (Chem.)
      A phenol, [?][?][?][?][?], produced by the distillation of
      catechin; called also {oxyphenic acid}, and now
      {pyrocatechin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pyrocatechin \Pyr`o*cat"e*chin\, n. [Pyro- + catechu.] (Chem.)
      A white crystalline substance, {C6H4(OH)2}, of the phenol
      series, found in various plants; -- so called because first
      obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also
      {catechol}, {oxyphenol}. etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxyphenol \Ox`y*phe"nol\, n. (Chem.)
      A phenol, [?][?][?][?][?], produced by the distillation of
      catechin; called also {oxyphenic acid}, and now
      {pyrocatechin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pyrocatechin \Pyr`o*cat"e*chin\, n. [Pyro- + catechu.] (Chem.)
      A white crystalline substance, {C6H4(OH)2}, of the phenol
      series, found in various plants; -- so called because first
      obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also
      {catechol}, {oxyphenol}. etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oxyphony \Ox*yph"o*ny\, n. [Gr. [?][?][?] sharp + [?][?][?][?]
      voice.]
      Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oak Point, TX (town, FIPS 53130)
      Location: 33.18223 N, 96.99491 W
      Population (1990): 645 (247 housing units)
      Area: 14.6 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oakhaven, AR (city, FIPS 51080)
      Location: 33.72913 N, 93.61995 W
      Population (1990): 35 (12 housing units)
      Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Okabena, MN (city, FIPS 48184)
      Location: 43.73858 N, 95.31584 W
      Population (1990): 223 (97 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56161

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Okefenokee, GA
      Zip code(s): 31501
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