Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: ORT – OR-THOT'RO-POUS
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ORT, n.
A fragment; a refuse. Shak.
OR'TA-LON, n.
A small bird of the genus Alauda. Encyc.
OR'THITE, n. [Gr. ορθος, 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. ορθος, straight, and κερας, 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.]
- Sound in the Christian faith; believing the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures; opposed to heretical; as, an orthodox Christian.
- 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. ορθοδοξια; ορθος, right, true, and δοξα, opinion, from δοκεω, to think.]
- Soundness of faith; a belief in the genuine doctrines taught in the Scriptures. Basil bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. Waterland.
- Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
OR-THO-DROM'IC, a. [See Orthodromy.]
Pertaining to orthodromy.
OR-THO-DROM'ICS, n.
The art of sailing in the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe. Harris.
OR'THO-DRO-MY, n. [Gr. ορθος, right, and δρομος, course.]
The sailing in a straight course.
OR-THO-E'PIC-AL, a.
Pertaining to orthoepy.
OR'THO-E-PIST, n. [See Orthoepy.]
One who pronounces words correctly, or who is well skilled in pronunciation.
OR'THO-E-PY, n. [Gr. ορθοεπεια; ορθος, right, and επος, word, or επω, to speak.]
The art of uttering words with propriety; a correct pronunciation of words. Nares.
OR'THO-GON, n. [Gr. ορθος, right, and γωνια, angle.]
A rectangular figure. Peacham.
OR-THOG'ON-AL, a.
Right angled; rectangular. Selden.
OR-THOG'RA-PHER, n. [See Orthography.]
One that spells words correctly, according to common usage. Shak.
OR-THO-GRA-PH'IC, or OR-THO-GRA-PH'IC-AL, a.
- Correctly spelled; written with the proper letters.
- Pertaining to the spelling of words; as, to make an orthographical mistake. Orthographic projection of the sphere, a delineation of the sphere upon a plane that cuts it in the middle, the eye being supposed to be placed at an infinite distance from it. Bailey. A projection in which the eye is supposed to be at an infinite distance; so called because the perpendiculars from any point of the sphere will all fall in the common intersection of the sphere with the plane of the projection. Encyc.
OR-THO-GRAPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.
- According to the rules of proper spelling.
- In the manner of orthographic projection.
OR-THOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. ορθογραφια; ορθος, right, and γραφη, writing.]
- The art of writing words with the proper letters, according to common usage.
- The part of grammar which treats of the nature and properties of letters, and of the art of writing words correctly. Encyc.
- The practice of spelling or writing words with the proper letters. Swift.
- In geometry, the art of delineating the fore right plane or side of any object, and of expressing the elevations of each art; so called because it determines things by perpendicular lines falling on the geometrical plane. Encyc.
- In architecture, the elevation of a building, showing all the parts in their true proportion. Encyc.
- In perspective, the fore right side of any plane, that is, the side or plane that lies parallel to a straight line that may be imagined to pass through the outward convex points of the eyes, continued to a convenient length. Encyc.
- In fortification, the profile or representation of a work in all its parts, as they would appear if perpendicularly cut from top to bottom. Cyc.
OR-THOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. ορθος, right, and λογος, discourse.]
The right description of things. Fotherby.
OR-THOM'E-TRY, n. [Gr. ορθος, right, and μετρον, measure.]
The art or practice of constructing verse correctly; the laws of correct versification. S. Jones
OR-THOP'NY, n. [Gr. ορθοπνοια; ορθος, right, erect, and πνοη, breath; πνεω, to breathe.]
- A disease in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture. Harvey.
- Any difficulty of breathing. Parr.
OR'THO-STADE, n. [Gr. ορθος, straight, and ισταμαι, to stand.]
In ancient costume, a long and ample tunic, with straight or upright folds. Elmes.
OR-THOT'RO-POUS, a. [Gr. ορθος and τρεπω.]
In botany, erect on the embryo of a plant. Lindley.