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   of each person
         adv 1: per person; "we are spending $5,000 per capita annually
                  for education in this district" [syn: {per capita}, {for
                  each person}, {of each person}]

English Dictionary: offspring by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
off-speed pitch
n
  1. a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball
    Synonym(s): change-up, change-of-pace, change-of-pace ball, off-speed pitch
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
office block
n
  1. a building containing offices where work is done [syn: office building, office block]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
office boy
n
  1. a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
office building
n
  1. a building containing offices where work is done [syn: office building, office block]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
office furniture
n
  1. furniture intended for use in an office
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Office of Inspector General
n
  1. the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission [syn: Office of Inspector General, OIG]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Office of Intelligence Support
n
  1. agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy
    Synonym(s): Office of Intelligence Support, OIS
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Office of Management and Budget
n
  1. the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget
    Synonym(s): Office of Management and Budget, OMB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Office of Naval Intelligence
n
  1. the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy
    Synonym(s): Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Office of the Dead
n
  1. an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
office-bearer
n
  1. the person who holds an office
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
offspring
n
  1. the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
    Synonym(s): offspring, progeny, issue
  2. something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
    Synonym(s): offspring, materialization, materialisation
  3. any immature animal
    Synonym(s): young, offspring
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
opacification
n
  1. the process of becoming cloudy or opaque
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
opacify
v
  1. make opaque; "The glass was opacified more greater privacy"
  2. become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
opposable
adj
  1. capable of being placed opposite to something; "the thumb is opposable to the forefinger"
    Synonym(s): opposable, apposable
    Antonym(s): unopposable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ovis poli
n
  1. Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon)
    Synonym(s): Marco Polo sheep, Marco Polo's sheep, Ovis poli
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ovis vignei
n
  1. bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia [syn: urial, {Ovis vignei}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Objibways \Ob*jib"ways\, n.pl.
      See {Chippeways}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chippeways \Chip"pe*ways\, n. pl.; sing. {Chippeway}. (Ethnol.)
      A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and
      western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also {Objibways}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Office \Of"fice\, n. [F., fr. L. officium, for opificium; ops
      ability, wealth, holp + facere to do or make. See {Opulent},
      {Fact}.]
      1. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by
            appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary
            duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to
            man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
  
                     I would I could do a good office between you.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by
            authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or
            authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal
            office.
  
      3. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God
            himself; as, the office of a priest under the old
            dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
  
                     Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
                     magnify mine office.                           --Rom. xi. 13.
  
      4. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done,
            by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to
            perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent
            beings.
  
                     They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the
                     earth.                                                --Milton.
  
                     In this experiment the several intervals of the
                     teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
                                                                              --Sir I.
                                                                              Newton.
  
      5. The place where a particular kind of business or service
            for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which
            public officers and others transact business; as, the
            register's office; a lawyer's office.
  
      6. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose
            place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the
            office.
  
      7. pl. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics
            discharge the duties attached to the service of a house,
            as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.]
  
                     As for the offices, let them stand at distance.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      8. (Eccl.) Any service other than that of ordination and the
            Mass; any prescribed religious service.
  
                     This morning was read in the church, after the
                     office was done, the declaration setting forth the
                     late conspiracy against the king's person. --Evelyn.
  
      {Holy office}. Same as {Inquisition}, n., 3.
  
      {Houses of office}. Same as def. 7 above. --Chaucer.
  
      {Little office} (R.C.Ch.), an office recited in honor of the
            Virgin Mary.
  
      {Office bearer}, an officer; one who has a specific office or
            duty to perform.
  
      {Office copy} (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a
            record, from the proper office. See {Certified copies},
            under {Copy}. --Abbott.
  
      {Office-found} (Law), the finding of an inquest of office.
            See under {Inquest}.
  
      {Office holder}. See {Officeholder} in the Vocabulary

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Office \Of"fice\, n. [F., fr. L. officium, for opificium; ops
      ability, wealth, holp + facere to do or make. See {Opulent},
      {Fact}.]
      1. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by
            appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary
            duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to
            man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
  
                     I would I could do a good office between you.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by
            authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or
            authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal
            office.
  
      3. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God
            himself; as, the office of a priest under the old
            dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
  
                     Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
                     magnify mine office.                           --Rom. xi. 13.
  
      4. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done,
            by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to
            perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent
            beings.
  
                     They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the
                     earth.                                                --Milton.
  
                     In this experiment the several intervals of the
                     teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
                                                                              --Sir I.
                                                                              Newton.
  
      5. The place where a particular kind of business or service
            for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which
            public officers and others transact business; as, the
            register's office; a lawyer's office.
  
      6. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose
            place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the
            office.
  
      7. pl. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics
            discharge the duties attached to the service of a house,
            as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.]
  
                     As for the offices, let them stand at distance.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      8. (Eccl.) Any service other than that of ordination and the
            Mass; any prescribed religious service.
  
                     This morning was read in the church, after the
                     office was done, the declaration setting forth the
                     late conspiracy against the king's person. --Evelyn.
  
      {Holy office}. Same as {Inquisition}, n., 3.
  
      {Houses of office}. Same as def. 7 above. --Chaucer.
  
      {Little office} (R.C.Ch.), an office recited in honor of the
            Virgin Mary.
  
      {Office bearer}, an officer; one who has a specific office or
            duty to perform.
  
      {Office copy} (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a
            record, from the proper office. See {Certified copies},
            under {Copy}. --Abbott.
  
      {Office-found} (Law), the finding of an inquest of office.
            See under {Inquest}.
  
      {Office holder}. See {Officeholder} in the Vocabulary

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Offskip \Off"skip`\, n. [Off + -skip, as in landskip.] (Paint.)
      That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator
      into distance. [R.] --Fairholt.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Offspring \Off"spring`\, n.sing. & pl. [Off + spring.]
      1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.]
  
      2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant
            or descendants, however remote from the stock.
  
                     To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives
                     are known.                                          --Dryden.
  
      3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] --Fairfax.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Opposability \Op*pos`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
      The condition or quality of being opposable.
  
               In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to
               opposability of the great toe, which is the essential
               distinguishing feature of apes.               --A. R.
                                                                              Wallace.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Opposable \Op*pos"a*ble\, a.
      1. Capable of being opposed or resisted.
  
      2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the
            thumb is opposable to the forefinger.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ovicapsule \O`vi*cap"sule\, n. [Ovum + capsule.]
      1. (Anat) The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {O[94]theca}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Burhel \Bur"hel\, Burrhel \Burr"hel\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep ({Ovis burrhel}).

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   ObjVlisp
  
      1984.   An {object-oriented} extension of {Vlisp}.
      {Reflective} architecture.
  
      ["Metaclasses are First Class: The ObjVlisp Model", P.
      Cointe, SIGPLAN Notices 22(121):156-167 (Dec 1987) (OOPSLA
      '87)].
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   ObjVProlog
  
      {Logic programming} and {object-orientation}, an adaptation of
      the {ObjVlisp} model to {Prolog}.
  
      ["ObjVProlog: Metaclasses in Logic", J. Malenfant, ECOOP '89,
      Cambridge U Press 1989, pp.257-269].
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Office By Example
  
      (OBE) A sequel to {QBE}, described in publications
      by Moshe Zloof of {IBM} in the early 1980s but apparently
      never implemented.
  
      (1998-03-14)
  
  
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