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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: old school - oleomargarin</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="oldschool"> old school,<DL COMPACT><DD> a group of people who have old-fashioned or conservative ideas. Ex. a doctor of the old school, a lady of the old school. </DL> <A NAME="oldschool"> old-school, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> old-fashioned or conservative. Ex. old-school attitudes. </DL> <A NAME="oldschooltie"> old school tie,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. loyalty among members of a group, especially among graduates of the same school or college. <DD> 2. a necktie worn by members of a group, as a sign of their association and loyalty. </DL> <A NAME="oldshoe"> old-shoe, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) pleasantly casual; informal. 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). </DL> <A NAME="oldsledge"> old sledge,<DL COMPACT><DD> the card game seven-up. </DL> <A NAME="oldsouth"> Old South,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the South or its ways of life before the Civil War. Ex. The region south of Baltimore resembles the Old South (Francis C. Haber). </DL> <A NAME="oldspanish"> Old Spanish,<DL COMPACT><DD> the Spanish language from the 1100's A.D. to the 1500's. </DL> <A NAME="oldsquaw"> old squaw,<DL COMPACT><DD> a long-tailed sea duck of northern regions. </DL> <A NAME="oldstager"> old stager,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person of long experience; veteran; old hand. </DL> <A NAME="oldster"> oldster, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. an old or older person. Ex. The discreet and sober conversation of the oldsters was much disturbed by the loud laughter of the younger folks (Henry Kingsley). <DD> 2. (in the British Navy) a midshipman with four years in grade. </DL> <A NAME="oldstoneage"> Old Stone Age,<DL COMPACT><DD> the Paleolithic. </DL> <A NAME="oldstory"> old story,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a story long told or often repeated; something that has lost all its novelty. Ex. Airplanes are an old story to them. You must find the trip quite an old story. <DD> 2. a statement, excuse, complaint, or the like, that is repeatedly heard, or a thing that is repeatedly encountered. </DL> <A NAME="oldstuff"> old stuff,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) familiar; well-known. 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). </DL> <A NAME="oldstyle"> old style,<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"> old-style, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or in old style. </DL> <A NAME="oldstyle"> Old Style,<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"> Old Test.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Old Testament. </DL> <A NAME="oldtestament"> Old Testament,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. 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> 2. the covenant between God and the Hebrew people established through Moses on Mount Sinai (in the Bible, Exodus 19:5). </DL> <A NAME="oldthing"> old thing,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Informal.) a familiar form of address used to a person. Ex. By-bye, old thing (Arnold Bennett). </DL> <A NAME="oldtime"> old-time, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of former times; like old times. Ex. old-time religion. </DL> <A NAME="oldtimer"> old-timer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. a person who has long been a resident, member, worker, or other associate, and whose experience goes back to an earlier day. <DD> 2. a person who favors old ideas and ways. </DL> <A NAME="oldtimes"> old-times, adjective. =old-time.</DL> <A NAME="oldtimey"> old-timey, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD> 1. old-time. Ex. an old-timey looking dress. <DD> 2. from the old days; veteran. </DL> <A NAME="oldtop"> old top,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Informal.) a familiar form of address used to a person. </DL> <A NAME="oldtuberculin"> old tuberculin,<DL COMPACT><DD> tuberculin prepared by heating, filtering, and concentrating a broth medium on which tubercle bacilli have been grown. </DL> <A NAME="olduvai"> Olduvai, adjective. =Oldowan.</DL> <A NAME="olduwan"> Olduwan, adjective. =Oldowan.</DL> <A NAME="oldwelsh"> Old Welsh,<DL COMPACT><DD> the Welsh language before A.D. 1200. </DL> <A NAME="oldwife"> oldwife, noun, pl. -wives, or old wife,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any one of various fishes, such as the alewife, menhaden, and certain triggerfish. <DD> 2. =old squaw. </DL> <A NAME="oldwivessummer"> old wives' summer or Old Wives' Summer,<DL COMPACT><DD> a warm period in autumn in Europe, similar to Indian summer. </DL> <A NAME="oldwivestale"> old wives' tale,<DL COMPACT><DD> a foolish story; silly or superstitious belief. Ex. This [body of anthropological fact] came from travelers, missionaries, and soldiers, and formed a collection in which careful and precise description was often combined with folklore and old wives' tales (Beals and Hoijer). </DL> <A NAME="oldwoman"> old woman,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a familiar term for a mother or wife. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a fussy, worrisome person. </DL> <A NAME="oldwomanish"> old-womanish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> suggesting or befitting an old woman; fussy. </DL> <A NAME="oldworld"> old-world, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. Also, Old-World. of or having to do with the Eastern Hemisphere; not of the New World; not American. Ex. old-world monkeys, old-world folk songs. <DD> 2. belonging to or characteristic of a former period. Ex. old-world courtesy. <DD> 3. of or having to do with the ancient world. Ex. The mammoth was an old-world elephant. adv. old-worldly. </DL> <A NAME="oldworld"> Old World,<DL COMPACT><DD> Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia; Eastern Hemisphere. </DL> <A NAME="oldy"> oldy, noun, pl. oldies. =oldie.</DL> <A NAME="ole"> ole (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) old (used to suggest a nonstandard, especially Southern, pronunciation). Ex. He looks conservative--"just a good ole country boy," as one of his constituents described him (John Fischer). </DL> <A NAME="ole"> ole (2), interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Spanish.) a cheer of enthusiasm or approval. </DL> <A NAME="ole"> -ole,<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) <DD> 1. containing a five-part ring, as in pyrrole. <DD> 2. belonging to the ethers or aldehydes, as in anethole. Also, -ol. </DL> <A NAME="oleaceous"> oleaceous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the olive family of plants, including the ash and jasmine. </DL> <A NAME="oleaginous"> oleaginous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having the nature or properties of oil; oily; greasy. Ex. ... the oleaginous scum that pollutes the surface of a city river (Mary E. Braddon). <DD> 2. (Figurative.) unctuous. Ex. an oleaginous hypocrite. noun oleaginousness. </DL> <A NAME="oleaginously"> oleaginously, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an oleaginous manner. Ex. (Figurative.) Anyone who tried to play Uriah Heep importantly would miss the essence of an oleaginously obsequious character (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="oleander"> oleander, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous evergreen shrub with fragrant red, pink, white, or purple flowers. It belongs to the dogbane family. </DL> <A NAME="oleandomycin"> oleandomycin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an antibiotic used in treating infections caused by bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms, especially those immune to other antibiotics. </DL> <A NAME="oleaster"> oleaster, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a shrub or small tree of southern Europe and western Asia, having fragrant yellow flowers and yellowish olivelike fruit. <DD> 2. the wild form of the olive. </DL> <A NAME="oleate"> oleate, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a salt or ester of oleic acid. </DL> <A NAME="olecranon"> olecranon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a part of the ulna that forms the point of the elbow. </DL> <A NAME="olefin"> olefin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a series of hydrocarbons homologous with ethylene which form with bromine and chlorine oily bromides and chlorides. </DL> <A NAME="oleic"> oleic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or derived from oil. </DL> <A NAME="oleicacid"> oleic acid,<DL COMPACT><DD> an oily, unsaturated acid obtained by hydrolyzing various animal and vegetable oils and fats, much used in making soaps. </DL> <A NAME="olein"> olein, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the ester of oleic acid and glycerin, one of the most abundant natural fats. Lard, olive oil, and cottonseed oil are mostly olein. <DD> 2a. the liquid or lower melting portions of any fat. <DD> b. =oleic acid. </DL> <A NAME="oleine"> oleine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the liquid part of any fat; olein. <DD> 2. =oleic acid. </DL> <A NAME="oleo"> oleo, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =oleomargarine. <DD> 2. =oleo oil. <DD> 3. =oleograph. Ex. ... a painted Christ in a blue and pink oleo (Time). </DL> <A NAME="oleograph"> oleograph, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chromolithograph made to look like an oil painting. </DL> <A NAME="oleographic"> oleographic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with oleography. adv. oleographically. </DL> <A NAME="oleography"> oleography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art or process of preparing oleographs. </DL> <A NAME="oleomargarin"> oleomargarin, noun. =oleomargarine.</DL> <A NAME="oleomargarine"> oleomargarine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substitute for butter made from animal fats and vegetable oils or from pure vegetable oils; margarine. </DL> <A HREF="oleomete.dic">NEXT</A>