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Nucula
- - A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.
Oakums
- noun - loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships
Obduce
- - To draw over, as a covering.
Obduct
- - To draw over; to cover.
Obtund
- verb - reduce the edge or violence of; "obtunded reflexes"
Obtuse
- adjective - (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex
- lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin
- of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
Occult
- adjective - become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often"
- cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"
- hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool"
- hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes"
- supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; "She doesn't believe in the supernatural"
- supernatural practices and techniques; "he is a student of the occult"
Occupy
- verb - assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne"
- be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
- consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection"
- live (in a certain place); "She resides in Princeton"; "he occupies two rooms on the top floor"
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
- occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"
- require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"