Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OB-TEST-A'TION, n.

1. Supplication; entreaty. Elyot.
2. Solemn injunction.

OB-TEST'ING, ppr.

Beseeching; supplicating.

OB-TREC-TA'TION, n. [L. obtrectatio, from obtrecto; ob and tracto.]

Slander; detraction; calumny. [Little used.] Barrow.

OB-TRUDE, v.i.

1. To enter when not invited.
2. To thrust or be thrust upon.

OB-TRUDE, v.t. [L. obtrude; ob and trudo, Eng. to thrust.]

1. To thrust in or on; to throw, crowd or thrust into any place or state by force or imposition, or without solicitation. Men obtrude their vain speculations upon the world. A cause of common error is the credulity of men, that is, an easy, assent to what is obtruded. Brown. The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or not. Locke.
2. To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge upon against the will. Why shouldst thou then obtrude this diligence / In vain, where no acceptance it can find? Milton. To obtrude one's self, to enter a place where one is not desired; to thrust one's self in uninvited, or against the will of the company.

OB-TRUD-ED, pp.

Thrust in by force or unsolicited.

OB-TRUD-ER, n.

One who obtrudes. Boyle.

OB-TRUD'ING, n.

A thrusting in, or entrance without right or invitation.

OB-TRUD-ING, ppr.

Thrusting in or on; entering uninvited.

OB-TRUN'CATE, v.t. [L. obtrunco; ob and trunco, to cut off.]

To deprive of a limb; to lop. [Little used.] Cockeram.

OB-TRUN-CA'TION, n.

The act of lopping or cutting off. [Little used.] Cockeram.

OB-TRU'SION, n. [s as z; L. obtrudo, obtrusus.]

The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.

OB-TRU'SIVE, a.

Disposed to obtrude any thing upon others; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self among others, or to enter uninvited. Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired, / The more desirable. Milton.

OB-TRU'SIVE-LY, adv.

By way of obtrusion or thrusting upon others, or entering unsolicited.

OB-TUND', v.t. [L. obtundo; ob and tundo, to beat.]

To dull; to blunt; to quell; to deaden; to reduce the edge, pungency or violent action of any thing; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall. Harvey.

OB-TUND'ED, pp.

Blunted; quelled; deadened.

OB-TU-RA'TION, n. [L. obturatus, from obturo, to stop up.]

The act of stopping by spreading over or covering.

OB'TU-RA-TOR, n.

In anatomy, the obturators are muscles which rise from the outer and inner side of the pelvis around the foramen thyroideum, and are rotators of the thigh. Wistar. Coxe.

OB-TUS-AN'GU-LAR, a. [obtuse and angular.]

Having angles that are obtuse, or larger than right angles.

OB-TUSE, a. [L. obtusus, from obtundo, to beat against.]

1. Blunt; not pointed or acute. Applied to angles, it denotes one that is larger than a right angle, or more than ninety degrees.
2. Dull; not having acute sensibility; as, obtuse senses. Milton.
3. Not sharp or shrill; dull; obscure; as, obtuse sound.

OB-TUSE-LY, adv.

1. Without a sharp point.
2. Dully; stupidly.

OB-TUSE-NESS, n.

1. Bluntness; as, the obtuseness of an edge or a point.
2. Dullness; want of quick sensibility; as, the obtuseness of the senses.
3. Dullness of sound.

OB-TU'SION, n. [s as z.]

1. The act of making blunt.
2. The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses.

OB-UM'BRATE, v.t. [L. obumbro; ob and umbra, a shade.]

To shade; to darken; to cloud. [Little used.] Howell.

OB-UM-BRA'TION, n.

The act of darkening or obscuring. OB-VEN'TlON, n. [L. obvenio; ob and venio, to come.] Something occasional; that which happens not regularly, but incidentally. [Not used.] Spenser.