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O

O

    • O

    • a circle

    • Oar

    • to row as with oars

    • Obsequious

    • behaving as becomes one who attends funeral
      obsequies

    • Obsequiously

    • funereally

    • Obstacle

    • ridiculously used for 'obstinate.'

    • Occupation

    • persons occupied in business

    • Occurent

    • an incident

    • Od's Body, Od's Heartlings, Od's Pittikins, Od's Plessed Will

    • 'Od's in these and all similar exclamations is a euphemism for 'God's.'

    • Oeilliad

    • an amorous glance

    • O'erparted

    • having too important a part to act

    • O'er-raught

    • overreached
      overtasked

    • Offering

    • challenging

    • Office

    • benefit, kindness
      use, function

    • Old

    • a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty

    • Once

    • some time

    • Oneyer

    • a banker. A doubtful word

    • Ope

    • open

    • Ope

    • to open

    • Open

    • plain
      Public

    • Open

    • to give tongue as a hound

    • Operant

    • active

    • Opinioned

    • used ridiculously for pinioned

    • Opposite

    • adversary

    • Opposition

    • combat

    • Or

    • before

    • Order

    • measures

    • Ordinance

    • rank, order

    • Orgulous

    • proud

    • Ort

    • leaving, refuse

    • Ostent

    • show, appearance

    • Ostentation

    • show, appearance

    • Ounce

    • a beast of prey of the tiger kind

    • Ouphe

    • a fairy

    • Ousel-cock

    • the blackbird

    • Out

    • all out, fully

    • Out-look

    • to face down

    • Outward

    • not in the secret of affairs

    • Outward

    • outside

    • Owe

    • to own