<B>oldie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) something old and, often, well-known, as a motion picture or song. Also, <B>oldy.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="oldionic">
<B>Old Ionic,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the form of the Greek language spoken in the time of Homer. The <I>Iliad</I> and <I>Odyssey</I> were written in Old Ionic. </DL>
<A NAME="oldirish">
<B>Old Irish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Irish language before A.D. 1200. </DL>
<A NAME="oldironsides">
<B>Old Ironsides,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the American frigate <I>Constitution,</I> famous for its exploits in the War of 1812; subject of Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem "Old Ironsides." </DL>
<A NAME="oldish">
<B>oldish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> somewhat old; no longer young. <BR> <I>Ex. I'm getting an oldish man (Arnold Bennett).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldlady">
<B>old lady,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a familiar term for a mother or wife. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a prim, fussy person. </DL>
<A NAME="oldlag">
<B>old lag,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a person who has been convicted more than once. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a semi-security centre for old lags regarded as past the escaping age (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldlatin">
<B>Old Latin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Latin language before the 100's B.C. </DL>
<A NAME="oldleft">
<B>Old Left,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the leftist movement, predominantly Marxist in ideology, that represented the radical element in politics before the emergence of the New Left. <BR> <I>Ex. The Old Left organized and proselyted, playing its part in bringing about the American welfare state.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldleftist">
<B>Old Leftist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the Old Left. </DL>
<A NAME="oldline">
<B>old-line, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>keeping to old ideas and ways; conservative. <BR> <I>Ex. an old-line banker.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having a long history; established. <BR> <I>Ex. an old-line company.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of an old family or lineage. </DL>
<A NAME="oldliner">
<B>old-liner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an advocate of old or traditional ideas or policies; conservative. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the straight old-liners, some of them men of fossilized ideas (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldlinestate">
<B>Old Line State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for Maryland. </DL>
<A NAME="oldlowgerman">
<B>Old Low German,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the form of the German language used in northern Germany and the Netherlands from about 800 A.D. to 1100. Modern Low German is descended from Old Low German. </DL>
<A NAME="oldmaid">
<B>old maid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a woman who has not married and seems unlikely to. (SYN) spinster. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a prim, fussy person. <DD><B> 3. </B>a simple card game for children in which players draw cards from each other's hands to make pairs. The player holding the extra queen at the end of the game loses. </DL>
<A NAME="oldmaidish">
<B>old-maidish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like, suggesting, or befitting an old maid; prim; fussy. (SYN) spinsterish. </DL>
<A NAME="oldman">
<B>old man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a familiar term of affection. <DD><B> 2. </B>a familiar term for a father or husband. <BR> <I>Ex. His old man and his uncles also wore the "tools of ignorance" (Time).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a familiar term for the man in charge of anything, such as a school principal, captain of a ship, or commander of a military unit. </DL>
<A NAME="oldmanofthesea">
<B>Old Man of the Sea,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Greek Mythology.) a name given to Nereus, father of the fifty Nereids. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in <I>The Arabian Nights</I>) a horrible old man who clung to the back of Sinbad. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person or thing that is hard to get rid of. </DL>
<A NAME="oldmansbeard">
<B>old-man's-beard, </B>noun, or <B>old-man's beard.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=beard lichen.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=fringe tree.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>(British.) a European clematis with fragrant, greenish-white flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="oldmaster">
<B>old master,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any great painter who lived before 1700. <BR> <I>Ex. About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position (W. H. Auden).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a painting by such a painter. </DL>
<A NAME="oldmoon">
<B>old moon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the moon when seen as a thin crescent with the hollow side on the right. </DL>
<A NAME="oldnick">
<B>Old Nick,</B> <B>=the Devil.</B> <I>Ex. "Old Nick" (Niccolo Machiavelli) became in English a synonym for the Devil (Mary McCarthy).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldnorse">
<B>Old Norse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the Scandinavian language from the Viking period to about 1300. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Icelandic language in the Middle Ages; Old Icelandic. (Abbr:) ON (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="oldnorthfrench">
<B>Old North French,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the dialects of northern France from the 800's A.D. to the 1500's, especially those of Normandy and Picardy. </DL>
<A NAME="oldnorthstate">
<B>Old North State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname of North Carolina. </DL>
<A NAME="oldone">
<B>Old One,</B> =the Devil.</DL>
<A NAME="oldowan">
<B>Oldowan, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a pebble culture of eastern Africa that preceded the Abbevillean and Acheulian cultures, represented by tools discovered in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania; Olduvai. Also, <B>Olduwan.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="oldpersian">
<B>Old Persian,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ancient Iranian language, recorded in cuneiform inscriptions. </DL>
<A NAME="oldprocess">
<B>old process,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the process for making corn meal by grinding whole corn between rotating stones. </DL>
<A NAME="oldprovencal">
<B>Old Provencal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the form of Provencal from about the 1000's A.D. to the 1500's. </DL>
<A NAME="oldprussian">
<B>Old Prussian,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an extinct Baltic language preserved in records of the 1400's and 1500's. </DL>
<A NAME="oldregime">
<B>Old Regime,</B> =ancien regime.</DL>
<A NAME="oldrose">
<B>old rose,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rose color with a purplish or grayish tinge. </DL>
<A NAME="oldrose">
<B>old-rose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the color old rose. </DL>
<A NAME="oldsalt">
<B>old salt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an old and experienced sailor. </DL>
<A NAME="oldsaxon">
<B>Old Saxon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the form of Low German spoken by the Saxons in northwestern Germany from about 800 A.D. to about 1100. </DL>
<A NAME="oldschool">
<B>old school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of people who have old-fashioned or conservative ideas. <BR> <I>Ex. a doctor of the old school, a lady of the old school.</I> </DL>
<B>old school tie,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>loyalty among members of a group, especially among graduates of the same school or college. <DD><B> 2. </B>a necktie worn by members of a group, as a sign of their association and loyalty. </DL>
<A NAME="oldshoe">
<B>old-shoe, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) pleasantly casual; informal. <BR> <I>Ex. Buchwald's manner is so ingenuous and old-shoe that the subjects of his interviews are soon disarmed into chattering away like old friends (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldsledge">
<B>old sledge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the card game seven-up. </DL>
<A NAME="oldsouth">
<B>Old South,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the South or its ways of life before the Civil War. <BR> <I>Ex. The region south of Baltimore resembles the Old South (Francis C. Haber).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldspanish">
<B>Old Spanish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Spanish language from the 1100's A.D. to the 1500's. </DL>
<A NAME="oldsquaw">
<B>old squaw,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a long-tailed sea duck of northern regions. </DL>
<A NAME="oldstager">
<B>old stager,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person of long experience; veteran; old hand. </DL>
<A NAME="oldster">
<B>oldster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an old or older person. <BR> <I>Ex. The discreet and sober conversation of the oldsters was much disturbed by the loud laughter of the younger folks (Henry Kingsley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(in the British Navy) a midshipman with four years in grade. </DL>
<A NAME="oldstoneage">
<B>Old Stone Age,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Paleolithic. </DL>
<A NAME="oldstory">
<B>old story,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a story long told or often repeated; something that has lost all its novelty. <BR> <I>Ex. Airplanes are an old story to them. You must find the trip quite an old story.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a statement, excuse, complaint, or the like, that is repeatedly heard, or a thing that is repeatedly encountered. </DL>
<A NAME="oldstuff">
<B>old stuff,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) familiar; well-known. <BR> <I>Ex. To the sophisticated grade-schooler now happily on the verge of leaving classroom routine behind, returning to the fold next fall will be old stuff (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldstyle">
<B>old style,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of type, such as Garamond or Caslon, characterized by slanting serifs and strokes of almost equal thickness. </DL>
<A NAME="oldstyle">
<B>old-style, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or in old style. </DL>
<A NAME="oldstyle">
<B>Old Style,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the method of reckoning time according to the Julian calendar, replaced by the New Style in most European countries in 1582, when the date was moved ahead 10 days. In Great Britain the Old Style calendar was used until 1752, when all dates were moved ahead 11 days. It was used in Russia until 1918. (Abbr:) O.S. </DL>
<A NAME="oldtest">
<B>Old Test.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Old Testament. </DL>
<A NAME="oldtestament">
<B>Old Testament,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the earlier and larger part of the Bible, which contains the religious and social laws of the Hebrews, a record of their history, their important literature, and writings of their prophets. (Abbr:) O.T. <DD><B> 2. </B>the covenant between God and the Hebrew people established through Moses on Mount Sinai (in the Bible, Exodus 19:5). </DL>
<A NAME="oldthing">
<B>old thing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British Informal.) a familiar form of address used to a person. <BR> <I>Ex. By-bye, old thing (Arnold Bennett).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldtime">
<B>old-time, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of former times; like old times. <BR> <I>Ex. old-time religion.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="oldtimer">
<B>old-timer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who has long been a resident, member, worker, or other associate, and whose experience goes back to an earlier day. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who favors old ideas and ways. </DL>
