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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Obelus \[d8]Ob"e*lus\, n.; pl. {Obeli}. [L., fr. Gr. 'obelo`s, prop., a spit.] (Print.) A mark [thus [mdash], or [f6]]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Obole \Ob"ole\, n. [Cf.F. obole. See {Obolus}.] (Old Pharm.) A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. [Written also {obol}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Obole \Ob"ole\, n. [Cf.F. obole. See {Obolus}.] (Old Pharm.) A weight of twelve grains; or, according to some, of ten grains, or half a scruple. [Written also {obol}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Obolus \[d8]Ob"o*lus\, n.;pl. {Oboli}. [L., fr Gr. ([?])] (Gr.Antiq.) (a) A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value. (b) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm. | |
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Obolo \Ob"o*lo\, n. [Cf. {Obolus}.] A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value. | |
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Offal \Of"fal\, n. [Off + fall.] 1. The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal. 2. A dead body; carrion. --Shak. 3. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. The off als of other profession. --South. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Opal \O"pal\, n. [L. opalus: cf. Gr. [?], Skr. upala a rock, stone, precious stone: cf. F. opale.] (Min.) A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity. Note: The precious opal presents a peculiar play of colors of delicate tints, and is highly esteemed as a gem. One kind, with a varied play of color in a reddish ground, is called the harlequin opal. The fire opal has colors like the red and yellow of flame. Common opal has a milky appearance. Menilite is a brown impure variety, occurring in concretions at Menilmontant, near Paris. Other varieties are cacholong, girasol, hyalite, and geyserite. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oval \O"val\, a. [F. ovale, fr. L. ovum egg. Cf. {Egg}, {Ovum}.] 1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. [Obs.] 2. Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical. 3. (Bot.) Broadly elliptical. {Oval chuck} (Mech.), a lathe chuck so constructed that work attached to it, and cut by the turning tool in the usual manner, becomes of an oval form. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oval \O"val\, n. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse. {Cassinian oval} (Geom.), the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; -- so called from Cassini, who first investigated the curve. Thus, in the diagram, if P moves so that P A.P B is constant, the point P describes a Cassinian oval. The locus may consist of a single closed line, as shown by the dotted line, or of two equal ovals about the points A and B. | |
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Ovally \O"val*ly\, adv. In an oval form. | |
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Ovile \O"vile\, a. See {Ovine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ovolo \O"vo*lo\, n. [It. ovolo, uovolo, fr. L. ovum an egg. Cf. {Ovule}.] (Arch.) A round, convex molding. See Illust. of {Column}. Note: In Roman work it is usually a quarter circle in section; in Greek work it is flatter, and is equivalent to the echinus; that is, it has in section the elastic curve of the shell of the sea urchin. In medi[91]val architecture it is not distinguishable from the multitude of convex moldings, of all sections, which are used. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Ovulum \[d8]O"vu*lum\, n.; pl. {Ovula}. [NL. See {Ovule}.] (Biol.) An ovule. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ovule \O"vule\, n. [Dim. of L. ovum an egg: cf. F. ovule. Cf. {Ovolo}, {Ovulum}.] (Biol.) (a) The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen. (b) An ovum. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ohiopyle, PA (borough, FIPS 56408) Location: 39.86751 N, 79.49417 W Population (1990): 81 (50 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 15470 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ohioville, PA (borough, FIPS 56432) Location: 40.68288 N, 80.47728 W Population (1990): 3865 (1396 housing units) Area: 60.3 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Opal, SD Zip code(s): 57765 Opal, WY (town, FIPS 57810) Location: 41.76996 N, 110.32082 W Population (1990): 95 (54 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Oppelo, AR (city, FIPS 52430) Location: 35.10101 N, 92.77513 W Population (1990): 643 (233 housing units) Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ovalo, TX Zip code(s): 79541 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ovilla, TX (city, FIPS 54444) Location: 32.53967 N, 96.89267 W Population (1990): 2027 (681 housing units) Area: 13.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75154 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
OOPL {object-oriented programming language} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Opal 1. A {DSP} language. ["OPAL: A High Level Language and Environment for DSP boards on PC", J.P. Schwartz et al, Proc ICASSP-89, 1989]. 2. The language of the {object-oriented database} {GemStone}. ["Making Smalltalk a Database System", G. Copeland et al, Proc SIGMOD'84, ACM 1984, pp.316- 325]. 3. A {simulation} language with provision for {stochastic variable}s. An extension of {Autostat}. ["C-E-I-R OPAL", D. Pilling, Internal Report, C.E.I.R. Ltd. (1963)]. 4. A language for compiler testing said to be used internally by {DEC}. 5. A {functional programming} language designed at the {Technische Universitaet Berlin} as a testbed for the development of {functional program}s. OPAL integrates concepts from Algebraic Specification and Functional Programming, which favour the (formal) development of (large) production-quality software written in a {purely functional} style. The core of OPAL is a {strongly typed}, {higher-order}, {strict} applicative language which belongs to the tradition of {Hope} and {ML}. The algebraic flavour of OPAL is visible in the syntactical appearance and in the preference of {parameterisation} to {polymorphism}. OPAL supports: {information hiding} - each language unit is divided into an interface (signature) and an implementation part; selective import; {parameterised module}s; free constructor {views} on {sorts}, which allow pattern-based function definitions despite quite different implementations; full {overloading} of names; puristic scheme language with no {built-in} data types (except {Boolean}s and denotations). OPAL and its predecessor OPAL-0 have been used for some time at the Technische Universitaet Berlin in CS courses and for research into optimising compilers for applicative languages. The OPAL compiler itself is writte entirely in OPAL. An overview is given in "OPAL: Design And Implementation of an Algebraic Programming Language". {Home (http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~opal/)}. {(ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/local/uebb/papers/DesignImplOpal.ps.gz)}. (1995-02-16) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Obal stripped, the eight son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28); called also Ebal (1 Chr. 1:22). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Obil a keeper of camels, an Ishmaelite who was "over the camels" in the time of David (1 Chr. 27:30). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Ophel hill; mound, the long, narrow, rounded promontory on the southern slope of the temple hill, between the Tyropoeon and the Kedron valley (2 Chr. 27:3; 33:14; Neh. 3:26, 27). It was surrounded by a separate wall, and was occupied by the Nethinim after the Captivity. This wall has been discovered by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund at the south-eastern angle of the temple area. It is 4 feet below the present surface. In 2 Kings 5:24 this word is translated "tower" (R.V., "hill"), denoting probably some eminence near Elisha's house. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Obal, inconvenience of old age | |
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Obil, that weeps; who deserves to be bewailed | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Ophel, a tower; darkness; small white cloud |