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   O'Keeffe
         n 1: United States painter (1887-1986) [syn: {O'Keeffe},
               {Georgia Okeeffe}]

English Dictionary: occupy by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
occupy
v
  1. keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
    Synonym(s): busy, occupy
  2. live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor"
    Synonym(s): occupy, reside, lodge in
  3. occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"
    Synonym(s): occupy, fill
  4. be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
    Synonym(s): concern, interest, occupy, worry
  5. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
    Synonym(s): invade, occupy
  6. require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
    Synonym(s): take, occupy, use up
  7. consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
    Synonym(s): absorb, engross, engage, occupy
  8. assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"
    Synonym(s): fill, take, occupy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ogive
n
  1. front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere
    Synonym(s): nose cone, ogive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ojibwa
n
  1. a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
    Synonym(s): Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa
  2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
    Synonym(s): Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ojibway
n
  1. a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
    Synonym(s): Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa
  2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa
    Synonym(s): Ojibwa, Ojibway, Chippewa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
okapi
n
  1. similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs
    Synonym(s): okapi, Okapia johnstoni
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Okapia
n
  1. okapis
    Synonym(s): Okapia, genus Okapia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ossify
v
  1. become bony; "The tissue ossified"
  2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
    Synonym(s): rigidify, ossify, petrify
  3. cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxbow
n
  1. the land inside an oxbow bend in a river
  2. a U-shaped curve in a stream
  3. a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oxyopia
n
  1. unusually acute vision
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]:
   Occupy \Oc"cu*py\, v. i.
      1. To hold possession; to be an occupant. [bd]Occupy till I
            come.[b8] --Luke xix. 13.
  
      2. To follow business; to traffic.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ogive \O"give\, n. [F. ogive, OF. augive a pointed arch, LL.
      augiva a double arch of two at right angles.] (Arch.)
      The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ojibways \O*jib"ways\, n. pl.; sing. {Ojibway}. (Ethnol.)
      Same as {Chippeways}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Okapi \O*ka"pi\, n. [Native name on the borders of Belgian
      Kongo, possibly the same word as Mpongwe okapo lean.]
      A peculiar mammal ({Okapia johnostoni}) closely related to
      the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Kongo
      in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a
      giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the
      giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on
      each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is
      chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and
      the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are
      striped with purplish black and cream color.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ossify \Os"si*fy\, v. i. (Physiol.)
      To become bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony
      tissue.

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]:
   Oxbow \Ox"bow`\, n.
      A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and
      embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends
      passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so
      shaped, as a bend in a river.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Oxyopia \[d8]Ox`y*o"pi*a\, Oxyopy \Ox"y*o`py\, n. [NL.
      oxyopia, from Gr. [?][?][?] sharp + [?][?][?] sight.] (Med.)
      Excessive acuteness of sight.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oak View, CA (CDP, FIPS 53182)
      Location: 34.39967 N, 119.29545 W
      Population (1990): 3606 (1251 housing units)
      Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 93022

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oakview, MO (village, FIPS 53858)
      Location: 39.20800 N, 94.57080 W
      Population (1990): 351 (144 housing units)
      Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ochopee, FL
      Zip code(s): 33943

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ojibwa, WI
      Zip code(s): 54862

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ossipee, NH
      Zip code(s): 03864

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Oxbow, ME
      Zip code(s): 04764
   Oxbow, ND (city, FIPS 60480)
      Location: 46.67066 N, 96.80160 W
      Population (1990): 100 (40 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   OCP
  
      {Order Code Processor}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   OSF
  
      {Open Software Foundation}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   OSP
  
      {Optical Signal Processor}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   OSPF
  
      {Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol}
  
  
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