Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
ora |
noun |
A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling., of Os |
orb |
noun |
A blank window or panel., A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star., One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions., A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit., A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body., The eye, as luminous and spherical., A revolving circular body; a wheel., A sphere of action., Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound., A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry., To form into an orb or circle., To encircle; to surround; to inclose., To become round like an orb. |
orc |
noun |
The grampus. |
ord |
noun |
An edge or point; also, a beginning. |
ore |
noun |
Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry., The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers)., A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless., Metal; as, the liquid ore. |
orf |
noun |
Alt. of Orfe |
ork |
noun |
See Orc. |
orn |
verb t. |
To ornament; to adorn. |
ort |
noun |
A morsel left at a meal; a fragment; refuse; — commonly used in the plural. |