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Orchils
- noun - a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens
- any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil
Ordains
- verb - appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church"
- invest with ministerial or priestly authority; "The minister was ordained only last month"
- issue an order
- order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
Ordeals
- noun - a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence
- a severe or trying experience
Ordures
- noun - solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Oreades
- - A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
Oreides
- noun - alloy of copper and tin and zinc; used in imitation gold jewelry
Orestes
- noun - (Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
Orgasms
- noun - the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse