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   Oates
         n 1: English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit
               plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705) [syn: {Oates},
               {Titus Oates}]
         2: United States writer (born in 1938) [syn: {Oates}, {Joyce
            Carol Oates}]

English Dictionary: otiose by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
oddish
adj
  1. somewhat strange
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
odds
n
  1. the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
  2. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one"
    Synonym(s): odds, betting odds
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Odesa
n
  1. a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea
    Synonym(s): Odessa, Odesa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Odessa
n
  1. a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea
    Synonym(s): Odessa, Odesa
  2. a city in western Texas
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
odious
adj
  1. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
    Synonym(s): abominable, detestable, execrable, odious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
odyssey
n
  1. a long wandering and eventful journey
  2. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
otc
adj
  1. (of securities) not traded on a stock exchange; "over- the-counter stocks"
    Synonym(s): over-the-counter, otc
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
otic
adj
  1. of or relating to near the ear
    Synonym(s): otic, auricular
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
otiose
adj
  1. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence"
    Synonym(s): otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted
  2. producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt"
    Synonym(s): futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing
  3. disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
    Synonym(s): faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Otis
n
  1. United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
    Synonym(s): Otis, Elisha Graves Otis
  2. type genus of the Otididae: European bustard
    Synonym(s): Otis, genus Otis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Otus
n
  1. a genus of Strigidae
    Synonym(s): Otus, genus Otus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outage
n
  1. the amount of something (as whiskey or oil) lost in storage or transportation
  2. a temporary suspension of operation (as of computers); "there will be a network outage from 8 to 10 a.m."
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Outaouais
n
  1. a river in southeastern Canada that flows along the boundary between Quebec and Ontario to the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal
    Synonym(s): Outaouais, Ottawa, Ottawa river
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outgo
n
  1. money paid out; an amount spent [syn: outgo, spending, expenditure, outlay]
    Antonym(s): income
v
  1. be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"
    Synonym(s): surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outhouse
n
  1. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
    Synonym(s): outhouse, privy, earth- closet, jakes
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outtake
n
  1. a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outweigh
v
  1. be heavier than
  2. weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes"
    Synonym(s): preponderate, outweigh, overbalance, outbalance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8O94theca \[d8]O`[94]*the"ca\, n.; pl. {O[94]thec[91]}. [NL.,
      fr. Gr. [?] an egg + [?] a case.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and
      of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. {O[d2]cium}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oath \Oath\ ([omac]th), n.; pl. {Oaths} ([omac][th]z). [OE.
      othe, oth, ath, AS. [be][edh]; akin to D. eed, OS. [c7][edh],
      G. eid, Icel. ei[edh]r, Sw. ed, Dan. eed, Goth. ai[thorn]s;
      cf. OIr. oeth.]
      1. A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent
            appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed. [bd]I
            have an oath in heaven[b8] --Shak.
  
                     An oath of secrecy for the concealing of those
                     [inventions] which we think fit to keep secret.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      2. A solemn affirmation, connected with a sacred object, or
            one regarded as sacred, as the temple, the altar, the
            blood of Abel, the Bible, the Koran, etc.
  
      3. (Law) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a
            superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party
            making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the
            statement be false.
  
      4. A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine
            Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or
            as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of
            profane swearing. [bd]A terrible oath[b8] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate,
      AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]
      1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its
            edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a
            collective sense.
  
      2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton.
  
      {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena
            sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally
            twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of
            moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently
            automatic motion.
  
      {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from
            its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less
            resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and
            {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the
            United States.
  
      {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important.
            [Slang]
  
      {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation.
            --Thackeray.
  
      {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling
            oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of
            cultivated oats.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Od2cium \[d8]O*[d2]"ci*um\, n.; pl. {O[d2]cia}. [NL., fr. Gr.
      w,'o`n an egg + [?] a house.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to
      receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See {Bryozoa}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bryozoum \[d8]Bry`o*zo"um\, n. [NL. See {Bryozoa}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there
      may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zo[d2]cia
      usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a
      well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts
      are lacking in the other zooids ({Avicularia}, {O[d2]cia},
      etc.).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odds \Odds\ ([ocr]dz), n. sing. & pl. [See {Odd}, a.]
      1. Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of
            one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality;
            advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances;
            probability. [bd]Pre[89]minent by so much odds.[b8]
            --Milton. [bd]The fearful odds of that unequal fray.[b8]
            --Trench.
  
                     The odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     There appeared, at least, four to one odds against
                     them.                                                --Swift.
  
                     All the odds between them has been the different
                     scope . . . given to their understandings to range
                     in.                                                   --Locke.
  
                     Judging is balancing an account and determining on
                     which side the odds lie.                     --Locke.
  
      2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase
            at odds.
  
                     Set them into confounding odds.         --Shak.
  
                     I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      {At odds}, in dispute; at variance. [bd]These squires at odds
            did fall.[b8] --Spenser. [bd]He flashes into one gross
            crime or other, that sets us all at odds.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {It is odds}, it is probable. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odic \Od"ic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to od. See {Od}. [Archaic] -- {Od"ic*al*ly},
      adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odious \O"di*ous\, a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F.
      odieux. See {Odium}.]
      1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious
            name, system, vice. [bd]All wickedness will be most
            odious.[b8] --Sprat.
  
                     He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.
                                                                              --Clarendon.
  
      2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust;
            offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight;
            an odious smell. --Milton.
  
                     The odious side of that polity.         --Macaulay.
  
      Syn: Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome;
               invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular. --
               {O"di*ous`ly}. adv. -- {O"di*ous*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odize \Od"ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Odized}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Odizing}.]
      To charge with od. See {Od}. [Archaic]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ods \Ods\, interj.
      A corruption of God's; -- formerly used in oaths and
      ejaculatory phrases. [bd]Ods bodikin.[b8] [bd]Ods pity.[b8]
      --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Odyssey \Od"ys*sey\, n. [L. Odyssea, Gr. [?], fr. [?] Ulysses:
      cf.F. Odyss[82]e.]
      An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return
      of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otic \O"tic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. o'y^s, 'wto`s, the ear: cf. F.
      otique.]
      Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular;
      auditory.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Otiose \O"ti*ose`\, a. [L. otiosus, fr. otium ease.]
      Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle.
      [bd]Otiose assent.[b8] --Paley.
  
               The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and
               un[?]rofitable cessation from even good deeds which
               they would enforce.                                 --Alford.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ottawas \Ot"ta*was\, n. pl.; sing. {Ottawa}. (Ethnol.)
      A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa
      River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern
      shore of Lake Superior.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgo \Out"go`\, n.; pl. {Outgoes}.
      That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; --
      the opposite of {income}. --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outgo \Out*go"\, v. t. [imp. {Outwent}; p. p. {Outgone}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Outgoing}.]
      1. To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to
            outdo.
  
      2. To circumvent; to overreach. [Obs.] --Denham.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outhess \Out*hess"\, n. [Cf. LL. uthesium, hutesium, huesium,
      OF. hueis, and E. hue, in hue and cry.]
      Outcry; alarm. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outhouse \Out"house`\, n.
      A small house or building at a little distance from the main
      house; an outbuilding.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outsee \Out*see"\, v. t.
      To see beyond; to excel in cer[?]ainty of seeing; to surpass
      in foresight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outtake \Out*take"\, prep.
      Except. [Obs.] --R. of Brunne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outweigh \Out*weigh"\, v. t.
      To exceed in weight or value.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Odessa, DE (town, FIPS 54050)
      Location: 39.45637 N, 75.66012 W
      Population (1990): 303 (132 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Odessa, FL
      Zip code(s): 33556
   Odessa, MN (city, FIPS 48058)
      Location: 45.26138 N, 96.33119 W
      Population (1990): 155 (67 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 56276
   Odessa, MO (city, FIPS 54038)
      Location: 38.99695 N, 93.95475 W
      Population (1990): 3695 (1556 housing units)
      Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 64076
   Odessa, NE
      Zip code(s): 68861
   Odessa, NY (village, FIPS 54452)
      Location: 42.31108 N, 76.81748 W
      Population (1990): 986 (377 housing units)
      Area: 19.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 14869
   Odessa, TX (city, FIPS 53388)
      Location: 31.87443 N, 102.34834 W
      Population (1990): 89699 (37751 housing units)
      Area: 91.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 79761, 79762, 79763, 79764, 79765, 79766
   Odessa, WA (town, FIPS 50745)
      Location: 47.33331 N, 118.68712 W
      Population (1990): 935 (476 housing units)
      Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 99159

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ohatchee, AL (town, FIPS 56472)
      Location: 33.78448 N, 86.01872 W
      Population (1990): 1042 (450 housing units)
      Area: 12.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 36271

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Otego, NY (village, FIPS 55618)
      Location: 42.39160 N, 75.17841 W
      Population (1990): 1068 (416 housing units)
      Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 13825

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Otis, CO (town, FIPS 56365)
      Location: 40.14969 N, 102.96159 W
      Population (1990): 451 (249 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 80743
   Otis, KS (city, FIPS 53525)
      Location: 38.53492 N, 99.05306 W
      Population (1990): 385 (183 housing units)
      Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Otis, LA
      Zip code(s): 71466
   Otis, MA
      Zip code(s): 01253
   Otis, OR
      Zip code(s): 97368

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Otisco, IN
      Zip code(s): 47163
   Otisco, MN
      Zip code(s): 56077

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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   ODSA
  
      {Open Distributed System Architecture}
  
  
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