| ourang | <zoology> An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. Alternative forms: orang-outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan. It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its colour is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects. Origin: Malayan rang tan, i. E, man of the woods; rang man + tan a forest, wood, wild, savage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ourang-outang | <zoology> An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. Alternative forms: orang-outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan. It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its colour is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects. Origin: Malayan rang tan, i. E, man of the woods; rang man + tan a forest, wood, wild, savage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ouranographist | One practiced in uranography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ouranography | A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology. Origin: Gr.; heaven + to write. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ourebi | <zoology> A small, graceful, and swift African antelope, allied to the klipspringer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ouretic | <pharmacology> An agent that promotes the excretion of urine. Origin: Gr. Diouretikos = promoting urine (18 Nov 1997) |
| ourology | <study> A branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the urinary tract and urogenital system. (09 Oct 1997) |
| ousel | <zoology> One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). <zoology> Alternative forms: ouzel] Rock ousel, the European dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American dipper (C. Mexicanus). Origin: OE. Osel, AS. Sle; akin to G. Amsel, OHG. Amsala, and perh. To L. Merula blackbird. Cf. Merle, Amsel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oust | 1. To take away; to remove. "Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted." (Sir M. Hale) 2. To eject; to turn out. "From mine own earldom foully ousted me." (Tennyson) Origin: OF. Oster, F. Oter, prob. Fr. L. Obstare to oppose, hence, to forbid, take away. See Obstacle, and cf. Ouster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ouster | A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. "Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement." (Blackstone) Ouster le main. [Ouster + F. La main the hand, L. Manus. A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. Origin: Prob. Fr. The OF. Infin. Oster, used substantively. See Oust. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| out of phase | Not in phase, moving in opposite directions at the same time; 180 |
| outbowed | Convex; curved outward. "The convex or outbowed side of a vessel." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| outbreak | The occurrence of a large number of cases of a disease in a short period of time. (09 Oct 1997) |
| outbreak epidemic | A localised epidemic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outbreathe | 1. To breathe forth. "Outbreathed life." 2. To cause to be out of breath; to exhaust. To issue, as breath; to be breathed out; to exhale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |