Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for O'VAL
O'VAL, a. [Fr. ovale, from L. ovum, an egg.]
- Of the shape or figure of an egg; oblong; curvilinear, with both ends of the same breadth; resembling the longitudinal section of an egg. Encyc.
- Pertaining to eggs; done in the egg; as, oval conceptions. Brown.
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