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oenotherapy - alternative medicine in Europe
- ... Offeree The company which is the object of a takeover bid; the bid is made by the offeror to the shareholders of this company. See also: takeover. ...
offbeat n. Music any of the beats of a measure that have weak, or secondary, accents adj.
>1 Jazz with a strong, or primary, accent placed on beats that usually receive a weak, or secondary, accent 2 [Colloq.] not conforming to the usual pattern or trend; unconventional, unusual, strange, etc. Used far more often in second sense
officinal adj. 5ML officinalis < officina, storeroom (of a monastery) < L, workshop, contr. of opificina < opifex, worker: see OFFICE6 [Obs.] commonly kept in stock in a pharmacy: said of products or drugs dispensed without prescription n. [Obs.] an officinal drug or preparation
officious adj. 5L officiousus < officium, OFFICE6 1 orig., ready to serve; obliging 2 offering unnecessary and unwanted advice or services; meddlesome, esp. in a highhanded or overbearing way 3 in diplomacy, unofficial or informal of[fi4cious[ly adv. of[fi4cious[ness n. I havnever heard it except in second sense
offscouring n. 1 [usually pl.] something scoured off; rubbish; refuse 2 an outcast from society: usually used in pl.
Offa's Dyke, which runs from Beachley to Flintshire, was not the work of Offa, King of Mercia, but was repaired by him. It existed when the Romans were in England, for five Roman roads cross it. Offa availed himself of it as a line of demarcation that was sufficiently serviceable, though by no means tallying with his territory either in extent or position.
Oghams The alphabet in use among the ancient Irish and some other Celtic nations prior to the ninth century.
“The oghams seem to have been merely tree-runes. The Irish regarded the oghams as a forest, the individual characters being trees (feada), while each cross-stroke is called a twig (fleasg).”- Isaac Taylor: The Alphabet, vol. ii. chap. viii. p. 226.
Ogygian Deluge A flood which overran a part of Greece while Ogyges was king of Attica. There were two floods so called- one in Boeotia, when the lake Copais overflowed its banks; and another in Attica, when the whole territory was laid waste for two hundred years (B.C. 1764). Varro tells us that the planet Venus underwent a great change in the reign of Ogyges (3 syl.). It changed its diameter, its colour, its figure, and its course. Ogyges Deluge occurred more than 200 years before Deucalion's Flood.
plearaceous - pertaining to edible potherbs
oleiferous - bearing or containing oil – e.g. castor beans
olid - Scripps-Howard says this is an adjective from Latin, meaning “having a strong disagreeabel smell. Nothing;; on Interenet to confirm this.
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2 offering unnecessary and unwanted advice or services; meddlesome, esp. in a highhanded or overbearing way
Doncha' just hate that? Especially the highhanded part?
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While out walking, a sign with word "sublime" made me wonder why a word starting with "sub" should come to mean "heavenly". Several etymology sites say it goes back to Latin "limen" meaning lintel, the overhead horizontal part of a doorway. That wouldn't get you very close to heaven, would it?
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That wouldn't get you very close to heaven, would it?
Well, it would if it were the Pearly Lintel to the Pearly Gates.
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You're not the only one to wonder. Perseus says of sublimis( http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q5CD126F3: [etym. dub.; perh. sub-limen, up to the lintel; cf. sublimen] Bingley
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