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   ommatidium
         n 1: any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the
               compound eyes of some arthropods

English Dictionary: on that by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
on that
adv
  1. on that; "text and commentary thereon" [syn: thereon, on it, on that]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
on that point
adv
  1. in that matter; "I agree with you there" [syn: there, in that respect, on that point]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
on the dot
adv
  1. just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said"
    Synonym(s): precisely, exactly, on the nose, on the dot, on the button
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
on the other hand
adv
  1. (contrastive) from another point of view; "on the other hand, she is too ambitious for her own good"; "then again, she might not go"
    Synonym(s): on the other hand, then again, but then
    Antonym(s): on one hand, on the one hand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
on the table
adj
  1. able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise; "negotiable demands"; "the proposal is still on the table"
    Synonym(s): negotiable, on the table
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ondaatje
n
  1. Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943) [syn: Ondaatje, Michael Ondaatje, Philip Michael Ondaatje]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ondatra
n
  1. muskrats
    Synonym(s): Ondatra, genus Ondatra
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ondatra zibethica
n
  1. beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
    Synonym(s): muskrat, musquash, Ondatra zibethica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
one at a time
adv
  1. in single file; "the prisoners came out one by one" [syn: one by one, one after another, one at a time]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oint \Oint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ointed}; p. pr & vb. n.
      {Ointing}.] [F. oint, p. p. of oindre, L. ungere. See
      {Anoint}, {Ointment}.]
      To anoint. [Obs.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Omit \O*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Omitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Omitting}.] [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see {Ob-} + mittere
      to cause to go, let go, send. See {Mission}.]
      1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to
            drop.
  
                     These personal comparisons I omit.      --Bacon.
  
      2. To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use
            of; to leave undone; to neglect.
  
                     Her father omitted nothing in her education that
                     might make her the most accomplished woman of her
                     age.                                                   --Addison.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Ommatidium \[d8]Om`ma*tid"i*um\, n.; pl. {Ommatidia}. [NL.,
      dim. of Gr. [?], [?], the eye.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of the single eyes forming the compound eyes of
      crustaceans, insects, and other invertebrates.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or
            refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service
            morally obligatory.
  
                     Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord,
                     and his country.                                 --Hallam.
  
      3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of
            a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
  
                     With records sweet of duties done.      --Keble.
  
                     To employ him on the hardest and most imperative
                     duty.                                                --Hallam.
  
                     Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly
                     exists to do trivial things; but there may be an
                     obligation to do them.                        --C. J. Smith.
  
      4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and
            superiors. --Shak.
  
      5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. [bd]My
            duty to you.[b8] --Shak.
  
      6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam
            pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain
            quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water
            lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old
            standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs.,
            United States).
  
      7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of
            money required by government to be paid on the
            importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
  
      Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the
               stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct
               tax. [U.S.]
  
      {Ad valorem duty}, a duty which is graded according to the
            cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad
            valorem}.
  
      {Specific duty}, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an
            article without reference to its value or market.
  
      {On duty}, actually engaged in the performance of one's
            assigned task.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Docket \Dock"et\, n. [Dock to cut off + dim. suffix -et.]
      1. A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads
            of a writing; a summary or digest.
  
      2. A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the
            name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be
            sent; a label. --Bailey.
  
      3. (Law)
            (a) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an
                  action, or register or such entries; a book of
                  original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a
                  formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of
                  the proceedings, in each case in court.
            (b) (U. S.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing
                  or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the
                  clerks.
  
      4. A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in
            any assembly.
  
      {On the docket}, in hand; in the plan; under consideration;
            in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Knock \Knock\ (n[ocr]k), v. t.
      1. To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by
            striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to
            knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post;
            to knock a lamp off the table.
  
                     When heroes knock their knotty heads together.
                                                                              --Rowe.
  
      2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
  
                     Master, knock the door hard.               --Shak.
  
      {To knock down}.
            (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by
                  blows; as, to knock down an assailant.
            (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or
                  knock; to knock off.
  
      {To knock in the head}, [or] {on the head}, to stun or kill
            by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to
            defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash.
            [Colloq.] -- {To knock off}.
            (a) To force off by a blow or by beating.
            (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the
                  counter.
            (c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- {To knock
      out}, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out
            the brains.
  
      {To knock up}.
            (a) To arouse by knocking.
            (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do
                  more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.]
                  [bd]The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food
                  had knocked up my followers.[b8] --Petherick.
            (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape
                  into book form, as printed sheets.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tenter \Ten"ter\, n. [OE. tenture, tentoure, OF. tenture a
      stretching, spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L.
      tendere, tentum, to stretch. See {Tend} to move.]
      A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks,
      called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
  
      {Tenter ground}, a place where tenters are erected.
  
      {Tenter-hook}, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth
            on a tenter.
  
      {To be on the tenters}, [or] {on the tenter-hooks}, to be on
            the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense.
            --Hudibras.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Beam \Beam\, n. [AS. be[a0]m beam, post, tree, ray of light;
      akin to OFries. b[be]m tree, OS. b[?]m, D. boom, OHG. boum,
      poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[?]mr, Goth. bahms and Gr. [?] a
      growth, [?] to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod, spoke
      of a wheel, beam or ray, and G. strahl arrow, spoke of a
      wheel, ray or beam, flash of lightning. [?]97. See {Be}; cf.
      {Boom} a spar.]
      1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to
            its thickness, and prepared for use.
  
      2. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or
            ship.
  
                     The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber
                     stretching across from side to side to support the
                     decks.                                                --Totten.
  
      3. The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more
            beam than another.
  
      4. The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales
            are suspended.
  
                     The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
                                                                              --Pope.
  
      5. The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which
            bears the antlers, or branches.
  
      6. The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] --Dryden.
  
      7. A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which
            weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder
            on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being
            called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
  
      8. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
  
      9. The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter
            are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen
            or horses that draw it.
  
      10. (Steam Engine) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating
            motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected
            with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and
            the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called
            also {working beam} or {walking beam}.
  
      11. A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun
            or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
  
                     How far that little candle throws his beams !
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      12. Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
  
                     Mercy with her genial beam.               --Keble.
  
      13. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called
            also {beam feather}.
  
      {Abaft the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon between a
            line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the
            direction of her beams, and that point of the compass
            toward which her stern is directed.
  
      {Beam center} (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the
            working beam of an engine vibrates.
  
      {Beam compass}, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam,
            having sliding sockets that carry steel or pencil points;
            -- used for drawing or describing large circles.
  
      {Beam engine}, a steam engine having a working beam to
            transmit power, in distinction from one which has its
            piston rod attached directly to the crank of the wheel
            shaft.
  
      {Before the beam} (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon included
            between a line that crosses the ship at right angles and
            that point of the compass toward which the ship steers.
  
      {On the beam}, in a line with the beams, or at right angled
            with the keel.
  
      {On the weather beam}, on the side of a ship which faces the
            wind.
  
      {To be on her beam ends}, to incline, as a vessel, so much on
            one side that her beams approach a vertical position.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muskrat \Musk"rat`\, n.
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent
            ({Fiber zibethicus}). It resembles a rat in color and
            having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the
            bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the
            fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having
            a strong odor of musk. Called also {musquash}, {musk
            beaver}, and {ondatra}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ounded \Ound"ed\, Oundy \Oun"dy\, a. [F. ond[82], -[82]e, fr.
      onde, L. unda, a wave.]
      Wavy; waving[?] curly. [Obs.] [bd]Owndie hair.[b8] --Chaucer.
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