Emily Dickinson Lexicon

O-PER-HEAT, v.t.

To heat to excess. Addison.

OP-ER-OSE, a. [L. operosus, from opera, operor.]

Laborious; attended with labor; tedious. Burnet.

OP-ER-OSE-NESS, n.

The state of being laborious. Moore.

O-PE-ROS'I-TY, n.

Laboriousness. [Not used.]

OPE-TIDE, tr. [ape and tide.]

The ancient time of marriage from Epiphany to Ash-Wednesday. Bp. Hall.

O-PHI-CLEIDE, n. [Gr. {foreign} and {foreign}.]

The largest brass wind instrument of the trumpet kind, used in the orchestra. It has a compass of three octaves.

O-PHID'I-AN, a. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent.]

a. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent.] Pertaining to serpents; designating an order of vertebral animals destitute of feet or fins.

O-PHID'I-AN, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent.]

An animal of the serpent kind, as the Boa, rattlesnake, adder and viper. The order is called Ophidia.

O-PHID'I-ON, n. [Gr. from {foreign}, a serpent.]

A fish of the anguilliform kind, resembling the common eel, but shorter, more depressed and of a paler color; found in the Mediterranean. Dict. Nat. Hist.

O-PHIL-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, serpent, and {foreign}, discourse.]

That part of natural history which treats of serpents, or which arranges and describes the several kinds. Ed. Encyc.

O-PHI-OM'AN-CY, a. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent, and; {foreign}, divination.]

In antiquity, the art of divining or predicting events by serpents, as by their manner of eating or by their coils. Encyc.

O-P'HI-O-MORPH'OUS, a. [Gr. {foreign}, and {foreign}, form]

Having the form of a serpent. Ray

O-PHI-OPH'-A-GOUS, a. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent, and {foreign}, to eat.]

Eating or feeding on serpents. Brown.

O'PHITE, it. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent, whence {foreign}, a stone spotted like a serpent.]

Green porphyry, or serpentine; a variety of greenstone of a dusky green color of different shades, sprinkled with spots of a lighter green; in other words, containing greenish white crystals of feldspar. Cleaveland.

O'PHITE, a. [Gr. {foreign}, a serpent]

Pertaining to a serpent. Holwell.

OPH-I-U'CHUS, n. [Gr. (foreign); (foreign), a serpent, and (foreign), to have.]

A constellation in the northern hemisphere.

OPH-THAL'MIC, a. [See (foreign)]

Pertaining to the eye.

OPH-THAL-MOS'CO-PY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, the eye, and (foreign), to view.]

A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a man's temper and manner from the appearance of the eyes. Encyc.

OPH-THAL-MO-TOL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in ophthalmotology.

OPH-THAL-MO-TOL'O-GY, n.

Science of ophthalmia or a treatise on it. Med. Journ.

OPHTHAL-MY, n. [Gr. (foreign), from (foreign), the eye.]

Inflammation of the eye or its appendages Good.

O'PI-ATE, a.

1. Inducing sleep; soporifevous; somniferous; narcotic. Bacon.
2. Causing rest or inaction. Milton.

O'PI-ATE, n. [from opium.]

1. Primarily, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Encyc. A soft electuary. Electuaries when soft are called opiate. Parr. But in modern usage generally.
2. Any medicine that contains opium and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic. Encyc.
3. That which induces rest or inaction; that which quiets uneasiness. They chose atheism as aa opiate. Bentley.

O'PI-A-TED, a.

Mixed with opium.

O'PI-FICE, n.

Workmanship.