Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OR'NI-THON, n. [Gr. an aviary.]

A building for the keeping of fowls. Elutes.

OR'NITH-OR-RHYNCH'US, n. [Gr. {foreign}, {foreign}, a fowl, and {foreign}, a beak.]

An effodient monotrematous mammal, with a horny beak resembling that of a duck, and two merely fibrous cheekteeth on each side of both jaws, not fixed in any bone, but only in the gum—with pentadactylous paws webbed like the feet of a bird and formed for swimming, and with a spur behind in the hinder feet, emitting a poisonous liquid from a reservoir in the sole of the foot, supplied by a gland situated above the pelvis, and by the side of the spine. The animal is covered with a brown fur. It is found only in New Holland, and is sometimes called water mole.

OR-O-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Orology.]

Pertaining to a description of mountains.

O-ROL'O-GIST, n.

A describer of mountains.

O-ROL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a mountain, and {foreign}, discourse.]

The science or description of mountains.

OR'PHAN, a.

Bereaved of parents. Sidney.

OR'PHAN, n. [Gr. {foreign}; It. orfano; Fr. orphelin.]

A child who is bereaved of father or mother or both.

OR'PHAN-ED, a.

Bereft of parents or friends. Young.

OR-PHAN-OT'RO-PHY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, orphan, and {foreign}, food.]

A hospital for orphans. Chalmers.

OR'PHE-US, n.

A fish found in the Mediterranean, broad, flat and thick, and sometimes weighing twenty pounds. The orpheus of the Greeks is said to have been a different fish. Dict. Nat. Hist. Encyc.

OR'PHEUS, n.

In classical mythology, a poet who is represented as having had the power by his music.

OR'PI-MENT, n. [L. auripigmentum; aurum, gold, and prgmentum.]

Sesqui-sulphuret of arsenic, found native and then an ore of arsenic, or artificially composed. The native orpiment appears in yellow, brilliant and seemingly talcky masses of various sizes. The red orpiment is called realgar, and is a protosulphuret of arsenic. It is more or less lively and s transparent, and often crystalized in bright needles. In this form it is called ruby of arsenic. Fourcroy. Nicholson. Encyc. Ure.

OR'PIN, n.

A yellow color of various degrees of intensity approaching also to red.

OR'PINE, n. [Fr. orpin.]

A plant of the genus Sedum, lesser houseleek or live long. The bastard orpine is of the genus Andrachne; the lesser orpine of the genus Crassola.

OR'RACH,

See ORACH.

OR'RE-RY, n.

A machine so constructed as to represent, by the movements of its parts, the motions and phases of the planets in their orbits. This machine was invented by George Graham, but Rowley, a workman, borrowed one from him, and made a copy for the Earl of Orrery, after whom it was named by Sir Richard Steele. Similar machines are called also planetariums. Cyc.

OR'RIS, n.

1. The plant iris, of which orris seems to be a corruption; fleur-de-lis or flag-flower. Encyc.
2. A sort of gold or silver lace. Qu. orfrais. Johnson.

ORT, n.

A fragment; a refuse. Shak.

OR'TA-LON, n.

A small bird a the genus Alauda. Encyc.

OR'THITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, straight.]

A mineral occurring in straight layers in felspath rock with albite, &c. It is of a blackish brown color resembling gadolinite, but differs from it in fusibility. Dict. Nat. Hist. Ure. Cleveland.

OR-THO-CER'A-TITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, straight, and {foreign}, a horn.]

The name of certain fossil univalve shells, straight or but slightly curved, arranged by Cuvier in the genus Nautilus.

OR'THO-DOX, a. [See Orthodoxy.]

1. Sound in the Christian faith; believing the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures; opposed to heretical; as, an orthodox Christian.
2. According with the doctrines of Scripture; as, an orthodox creed or faith.

OR'THO-DOX-LY, adv.

With soundness of faith. Bacon.

OR'THO-DOX-NESS, n.

The state of being sound in the faith, or of according with the doctrines of Scripture.

OR'THO-DOX-Y, n. [Gr. {foreign}; {foreign}, right, true, and {foreign}, opinion, from {foreign}, to think.]

1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures. Basil bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.
2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.