Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OR'NATE-LY, adv.

With decoration. Skelton.

OR'NATE-NESS, n.

State of being adorned.

OR'NA-TING, ppr.

Embellishing.

OR'NA-TURE, n.

Decoration. [Little used.]

OR-NIS-COP'ICS, n.

Divination by the observation of fowls. Bailey.

OR-NIS'CO-PIST, n. [Gr. ορνις, a bird, and σκοπεω, to view.]

One who views the flight of fowls in order to foretell future events by their manner of flight. [Little used.] Johnson.

OR-NITH'O-LITE, n.

A petrified bird.

OR-NI-THO-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to ornithology.

OR-NI-THOL'O-GIST, n. [See Ornithology.]

A person who is skilled in the natural history of fowls, who understands their form, structure, habits and uses; one who describes birds.

OR-NI-THOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. ορνις, a fowl, and λογος, discourse.]

The science of fowls, which comprises a knowledge of their form, structure, habits and uses.

OR-NITH'O-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. ορνις, a fowl, and μαντεια, divination.]

Augury, a species of divination by means of fowls, their flight, &c. Encyc.

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

A building for the keeping of fowls. Elmes.

OR'NITH-OR-RHYNCH'US, n. [Gr. ορνις, ορνιθος, a fowl, and ρυγχος, 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. ορος, a mountain, and λογος, discourse.]

The science or description of mountains.

OR'PHAN, a.

Bereaved of parents. Sidney.

OR'PHAN, n. [Gr. ορφανος; It. orfano; Fr. orphelin.]

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

OR'PHAN-AGE, or OR'PHAN-ISM, n.

The state of an orphan. Sherwood.

OR'PHAN-ED, a.

Bereft of parents or friends. Young.

OR-PHAN-OT'RO-PHY, n. [Gr. ορφανος, orphan, and τροφη, food.]

A hospital for orphans. Chalmers.

OR'PHE-AN, or OR'PHIC, a.

Pertaining to Orpheus, the poet and musician; as, Orphic hymns. Bryant.

OR'PHE-US, n.¹

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.²

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

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

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 transparent, and often crystalized in bright needles. In this form it is called ruby of arsenic. Fourcroy. Nicholson. Encyc. Ure.