Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O-LYMPI-AD, n. [L. Olympias; Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, Olympus, a mountain of Macedonia.]

A period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, and constituting an important epoch in history and chronology. The first Olympiad commenced 775 years before the birth of Christ, and 22 years before the foundation of Rome. The computation by Olympiads ceased at the three hundred and sixty fourth Olympiad, in the year 440 of the Christian era. Encyc.

O-LYM'PI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Olympus; or to Olympia, a town in Greece. Olympic games, or Olympics, solemn games among the ancient Greeks. dedicated to Olympian Jupiter, and celebrated once in four years at Olympia. [See Olympiad.]

OM-BROM'ETER, a. [Gr. {foreign}, rain, and {foreign}, measure.]

A machine or instrument to measure the quantity of rain that falls. Encyc.

O-ME'GA, n. [Gr. great O.]

The name of the last letter of the Greek alphabet, as Alpha, A, is the first. Hence in Scripture, Alpha and Omega denotes the fast and the last, the beginning and the ending. Rev. i.

OM'E-LET, n. [Fr. omelette.]

A kind of pancake or fritter made with eggs and other ingredients. Encyc.

O'MEN, n. [L. omen; but according to Varro, it was originally osmen, that which is uttered by the mouth, denoting wish or vow, and with him agree Festus and Nonius, says Vossius. Another author derives the word from the Heb {foreign}, an augur. Cicero assigns to the word the same origin as Varro. “Voces homanum, gum vocent omina.” But the word came afterward to denote things rather than words.]

A sign or indication of some future event; a prognostic. Superstition and ignorance multiply omens; philosophy and truth reject all omens, except such as may be called causes of the events. Without a miracle, how can one event be the omen of another with which it has no connection?

O'MEN-ED, a.

Containing an omen or prognostic. Pope. L.

O-MEN'TUM, n. [L.]

In anatomy, the caul or epiploon; a membranaceous covering of the bowels, being placed under the peritoneum and immediately above the intestines. Encyc.

O'MER, n. [Heb.]

A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an epha. Exod. xvi. 36.

OM-I-LET'I-CAL, a. [Gr. {foreign}.]

Affable; polite; gifted in conversation. [Not in use] Farindan.

OM'IN-ATE, v.i.

To foretoken.

OM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. ominor, from omen.]

To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Little used.] Decay of Piety.

OM-IN-A'TION, n.

A foreboding; a presaging; prognostic. [Little used.] Brown.

OM'IN-OUS, a. [L. ominosus.]

1. Foreboding or presaging evil; indicating a future evil, event; inauspicious. In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart was accounted ominous. South.
2. Foreshowing or exhibiting signs of good. Though he had a good ominous name to have made peace, nothing followed. Bacon.

OM'IN-OUS-LY, adv.

With good or bad omens. Fotherby.

OM'IN-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being ominous. Burnet.

O-MIS'SIBLE, a. [L. omissus. See Omit.]

That may be omitted. Parkhurst.

O-MIS'SION, n. [Fr. from L. omissio, from omitto, omissus.]

1. Neglect or failure to do something which a person had power to do, or which duty required to be done. Omission may be innocent or criminal; innocent, when no duty demands performance; but criminal when duty is neglected. The most natural division of all offenses, is into those of omission and those of commission. Addison.
2. A leaving out; neglect or failure to insert or mention; as, the omission of a word or clause.

O-MIS'SIVE, a.

Leaving out. Stackhouse.

O-MIS'SIVE-LY, adv.

By leaving out.

O-MIT', v.t. [L. omitto; ob and mitto, to send.]

1. To leave, pass by or neglect; to fail or forbear to do or, to use; as, to omit an opportunity of writing a letter. To omit known duty is criminal.
2. To leave out; not to insert or mention; as, to omit an important word in a deed; to omit invidious comparisons; to omit a passage in reading or transcribing.

O-MIT'TANCE, n.

Forbearance; neglect. [Not used.] Shak.

O-MIT'TED, pp.

Neglected; passed by; left out.

O-MIT'TING, ppr.

Neglecting or failing to do or use; passing by; leaving out.

OM'NI-BUS, n. [L. plural dative for all, from omnis, all.]

A covered vehicle, usually a very large wagon, used for conveying passengers a short distance, in a city or from village to village, or from a city to its environs.