Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

OBTU-PE-FAC'TIVE, a. [L. obstupefacio.]

Stupefying; rendering insensible, torpid or inert [Little used.] [See Stupefactive.] Abbot.

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

OB-TU'SION, n.

1. s as z.
2. The act of making blunt.
3. 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.]

OB-UM-BR-ATION, 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.

OB-VERS'AN'T, a. [L. observans, obversor; ob and versor, to turn.]

Conversant; familiar. [Not used.] Bacon.

OB-VERSE, a. obvers.

In botany, having the base narrower than the top; as a leaf. OB'VERSE:, n. The face of a coin; opposed to reverse.

OB-VERT', v.t. [L. obverto; ob and verto, to turn.]

To turn toward.

OB-VERT'ED, pp.

Turned toward.

OB-VERT'ING, ppr.

Turning toward.

OB'VI-ATE, v.t. [Fr. obvier; It. ovviare; Sp. obviar; fronm L obivus; ob and via, way.]

Properly, to meet in the way; to oppose; hence, to prevent by interception, or to remove at the beginning or in the outset; hence in present usage, to remove in general, as difficulties or objections; to clear the way of obstacles in reasoning, deliberating or planning. To lay down every thing in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. Woodward.

OB'VI-A-TED, pp.

Removed, as objections or difficulties.

OB'VI-A-TING, ppr.

Removing, as objections in reasoning or planning.

OB'VI-OUS, a. [L. obvius. See the Verb.]

1. Meeting; opposed in front. ] to the evil turn My obvious breast. [Not now used.] Milton.
2. Open; exposed. [Little used.] Milton.
3. Plain; evident; easily discovered, seen or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect. We say, a phenomenon obvious to the sight, or a truth obvious to the mind. Milton. Dryden.