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Orcin
- - A colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.
Orcus
- noun - god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto
Orczy
- noun - Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdalena Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) ( 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Emmuska Orczy
- British writer (born in Hungary) (1865-1947)
Order
- noun - (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans
- (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families
- (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed; "the British ships dropped anchor and waited for orders from London"
- (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
- a body of rules followed by an assembly
- a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities; "IBM received an order for a hundred computers"
- a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his desk in order"; "the machine is now in workin
Oread
- noun - (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
Oreos
- noun - chocolate cookie with white cream filling
Organ
- noun - (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
- a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
- a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department"
- a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party"
- wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
Orgue
- - Any one of a number of long, thick pieces of timber, pointed and shod with iron, and suspended, each by a separate rope, over a gateway, to be let down in case of attack. (b) A piece of ordnance, consisting of a number of musket barrels arranged so that a match or train may connect with all their touchholes, and a discharge be secured almost or quite simultaneously.