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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>OLIVINIT</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="olivinitic"> olivinitic, adjective. =olivinic.</DL> <A NAME="olla"> olla, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an earthen water jar or cooking pot. <DD> 2. =olla-podrida (def. 1). </DL> <A NAME="ollamh"> ollamh, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a class of early poets and storytellers of Ireland, especially during the Middle Ages. </DL> <A NAME="ollapodrida"> olla-podrida, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a stew made from fresh and smoked meats, chicken, chickpeas, onions, garlic, a variety of green vegetables, and seasonings. It is a Spanish national dish eaten throughout the Spanish-speaking world. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) a hodgepodge; olio. Ex. an olla-podrida of Gothic and Renaissance architecture. </DL> <A NAME="olmec"> Olmec, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a member of a highly civilized people who lived in southeastern Mexico before the Aztecs. Their culture flourished from about 1200 B.C. to 100 B.C. Ex. The most ancient civilization of Mesoamerica is that of the Olmecs, who flourished in the sweltering Gulf Coast plain in the region of southern Veracruz and neighbouring Tabasco (Listener). <DD>adj. of the Olmecs or their culture. Ex. Olmec architecture. </DL> <A NAME="ologist"> ologist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a specialist in any science or branch of knowledge. Ex. ... the enthronement of the intellectual and the ologist (Atlantic). </DL> <A NAME="ology"> ology, noun, pl. -gies.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) any science or branch of knowledge. Ex. Etymology is an unpredictable ology (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="ololiuqui"> ololiuqui, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a narcotic drug made by Mexican Indians from the seeds of a plant of the morning-glory family. </DL> <A NAME="oloroso"> Oloroso or oloroso, noun, pl. -sos.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sweet Spanish sherry. </DL> <A NAME="olpe"> olpe, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in ancient Greece: <DD> 1. a leather oil flask, used especially in the palestra. <DD> 2. a small pitcherlike vessel resembling an oinochoe but having a more slender body. </DL> <A NAME="olympiad"> Olympiad or olympiad, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 B.C. <DD> 2. a celebration of the modern Olympic Games. <DD> 3. any international contest, especially one modeled on the Olympic Games. Ex. the 22nd Chess Olympiad, the World Culinary Olympiad. </DL> <A NAME="olympian"> Olympian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. having to do with Olympia in ancient Greece or with Mount Olympus; Olympic. <DD> 2. like a god; heavenly. <DD> 3. rather too gracious; superior. Ex. Olympian calm. <DD>noun 1. one of the major Greek gods, led by Zeus, that lived on Mount Olympus. <DD> 2. a contender in the Olympic Games. </DL> <A NAME="olympiangames"> Olympian Games, =Olympic Games.</DL> <A NAME="olympic"> Olympic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with Olympia in ancient Greece. <DD> 2. of or having to do with Mount Olympus. <DD> 3. of or having to do with the Olympic Games. </DL> <A NAME="olympicgames"> Olympic Games,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. contests in athletics, poetry, and music, held every four years by the ancient Greeks in honor of Zeus. <DD> 2. modern athletic contests in the tradition of the athletic contests of these games. They are held once every four years in a different country, and athletes from many nations compete in them. </DL> <A NAME="olympics"> Olympics, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =Olympic Games. <DD> 2. =Olympiad (def. 3). </DL> <A NAME="olympus"> Olympus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> heaven. </DL> <A NAME="om"> om, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Hindu sacred word that symbolizes Brahma, used as a spell, spoken before reciting mantras, or mystically contemplated in its written or spoken form. </DL> <A NAME="om"> O.M.,<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) Order of Merit. </DL> <A NAME="oma"> OMA, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) Orderly Marketing Agreement (an agreement between governments that restricts imports of a product when it jeopardizes employment, production, and sales of the importing country's industry). Ex. The Administration has negotiated an OMA limiting imports of Japanese color-TV sets to 41% of their 1976 level (Time). </DL> <A NAME="oma"> -oma, (suffix,) pl. -omas or -omata.<DL COMPACT><DD> a growth, as a tumor or neoplasm, as in adenoma, carcinoma. </DL> <A NAME="omagua"> Omagua, noun, pl. -gua or -guas.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of a small tribe of South American Indians living on the upper Amazon River. The Omagua, who are of Tupi-Guarani stock, were very powerful at the time of the Spanish Conquest. <DD> 2. the language of this tribe. </DL> <A NAME="omaha"> Omaha, noun, pl. -ha or -has.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of an American Indian tribe of Siouan stock, now living in Nebraska. <DD> 2. the language of this tribe. </DL> <A NAME="omahan"> Omahan, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of Omaha, Nebraska. </DL> <A NAME="omani"> Omani, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with Oman, a country in southeastern Arabia. <DD>noun a native or inhabitant of Oman. </DL> <A NAME="omasum"> omasum, noun, pl. -sa.<DL COMPACT><DD> the third stomach of a cow or other ruminant; manyplies. It receives the food when swallowed the second time, after having been chewed as a cud. </DL> <A NAME="omayyad"> Omayyad, noun, pl. -yads, -yades.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a member of the dynasty of Moslem caliphs (A.D. 661-750) that preceded the Abbassids and had its seat at Damascus. <DD> 2. a member of a branch of this dynasty which founded the caliphate of Cordoba in Spain (A.D. 756). Also, Ommiad, Umayyad. </DL> <A NAME="omb"> OMB (no periods) or O.M.B.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Office of Management and Budget (a U.S. government agency that replaced the Bureau of the Budget in 1970). </DL> <A NAME="omber"> omber, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a card game, popular in the 1600's and 1700's, played by three persons with 40 cards, the eights, nines, and tens being left out. <DD> 2. the player who tries to win the pool in this game. </DL> <A NAME="ombre"> ombre (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) omber. </DL> <A NAME="ombre"> ombre (2), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. (of a fabric color) running gradually from light to darker shades to give a shaded or striped effect; shadowy; shaded. <DD>noun an ombre fabric. </DL> <A NAME="ombred"> ombred, adjective. =ombre.</DL> <A NAME="ombu"> ombu, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rapidly growing, evergreen, dioecious shade tree of South America, having very dense foliage and a width of up to 15 feet at the base. The wood is very moist and spongy. </DL> <A NAME="ombudsman"> ombudsman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a government official appointed to receive and investigate grievances of citizens against the government. The office of ombudsman originated in the Scandinavian countries. <DD> 2. any person who champions or defends individual rights. Ex. ombudsman for every injustice, agitator for every cause that needed help, one-woman lobby (Max Lerner). </DL> <A NAME="ombudsmanship"> ombudsmanship, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> position or authority of ombudsman. </DL> <A NAME="ombudswoman"> ombudswoman, noun, pl. -women.<DL COMPACT><DD> a female ombudsman. </DL> <A NAME="omega"> omega, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English O, o, especially with the sound o. <DD> 2. the last of any series; end. <DD> 3. (Nuclear Physics.) <DD> a. omega meson. <DD> b. =omega minus. </DL> <A NAME="omegameson"> omega meson,<DL COMPACT><DD> a highly unstable and short-lived elementary particle with a mass 1540 times that of an electron. </DL> <A NAME="omegaminus"> omega minus,<DL COMPACT><DD> a negatively-charged elementary particle of extremely short life, produced in a nuclear accelerator after its existence and properties were predicted by the eightfold way. </DL> <A NAME="omega3fattyacid"> omega-3 fatty acid,<DL COMPACT><DD> a polyunsaturated fatty acid, found in fish or fish oil, that lowers the levels of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood and decreases blood coagulation. Ex. The omega-3 fatty acids in fish reduce the likelihood of getting heart disease (Science News). </DL> <A NAME="omelet"> omelet or omelette, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> eggs beaten up with milk or water, fried or baked in a shallow pan, and folded over. An omelet is often filled with minced ham, tomato sauce, or cheese. </DL> <A NAME="omen"> omen, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a sign of what is to happen; object or event that is believed to mean good or bad fortune. Ex. Spilling salt is said to be an omen of misfortune. (SYN) augury, portent, presage. <DD> 2. prophetic meaning; foreboding. Ex. A black cat is a creature of ill omen. <DD>v.t. 1. to be a sign of; presage; forebode. <DD> 2. to predict as if from omens; divine. </DL> <A NAME="omened"> omened, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> preceded by or attended with omens. </DL> <A NAME="omened"> -omened,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) containing a ______ omen. Ex. Ill-omened = containing an ill omen </DL> <A NAME="omental"> omental, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the omentum. </DL> <A NAME="omentum"> omentum, noun, pl. -ta.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach with certain of the other viscera. The great omentum is attached to the stomach and enfolds the transverse colon; the lesser omentum lies between the stomach and the liver. </DL> <A NAME="omer"> omer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, equal to 1/10 of an ephah, about 3 1/2 quarts. <DD> 2. the 49 days between Passover and Shabuoth during which weddings and other celebrations are prohibited to Orthodox Jews, except on the day of Lag Ba'Omer. </DL> <A HREF="omerta.dic">NEXT</A>