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Show O A & Has in Englith a long found; as drone, groan, flone, alonz, cloke broke, coal, droll; or fhort, got knot, fhot, prong, long It is ufually de noted long by a fervile ¢ fubjoined as, moan, or by e at the end of the {yllable; as, boze: when thefe vowels ar not appended, it is generally fhort, ex CA the Latins, not only an oak but frength and may be well enough derived non incommode deduci poteft, from ares firength; by taking the three firft letters, and then finking the 2, asis no uncommon; guercus. The oak-tree hath male flowers, or katkins which confift of a great number of fmall flende even then fometimes thort; as, Jo// 3. Ois ufed as an interjeCtion of withing o exclamation threads The embryos, which are produced a remote diftances from thefe on the fame tree, d afterwards become acorns, which are produced i hard fecaly cups: the leaves are finuated ‘Th fpecies are five Miller O that we, who have refifted all the defigns o - his love, would now try to defeat that of hi anger Decay of Picty O ! were he prefent, that his eyes and hand Might fee, and urge, the death which he com He return'd with his brows bound with ouw# Shakefpearc He lay alon Under an oak, whofe antique root peeps ou Upon the brook that brawls along this wood. Shak cep befor / as droll jiroll mands an Diryden 2. O is ufed with no great elegance b Shakefpeare for a circle or oval Can this cockpit hol The vafty field of France? or may we cra Within this wooden 0, the very cafk That did affright the air at Agincourt Shakefp ©AF. u. f [This word is varioufly written ; auf, ofe, and oph; it feems a cor ruptio of ouph Germa alf a demon or fairy; i fro whic elf an means properly the fame with changeling5 a foolith child left by malevolen ouphs or fairies, in the place of on more witty, which they fteal away. ¥. A changeling; a foolith child left b the fairies after proves an idiot Says that the fairy left this ozf And took away the other. Drayton's Nimphid A dolt a blockhead ; an idiot Oa'FisH. adj. [from oaf.] Stupid; dall doltifh Oa'risuaNEsS. z./. [from oafifp. Stuidity; dulnefs OAK / [ac Saxon =c fays Skinner, to fhe which how eafy it is t play the fool, under 2 fl‘e."' of hteratu:.- and deep refearches verfion of my reader I will for the di derive from 4.¢. a houfe; the oak being the beft timSiinner f{cems t ber for building have had Junius in his thoughts wh on this very word has fhewn his ufua fondnefs for Greek etymology, by a.derivation more ridiculous than that b which §4inner has ridiculed him. A4co oak th fay amon th grav Saxons critick Three centuries he grows, and three hie ftay Supreme in ftate 3 and in three more decays Dryden An oak growing from a plant to a great tree, an then lopped, is ftill the fame oak Locke A light earthy, ftony, and fparry matter, incrufted and aflixed to.cak leaves. /oodwward on Fof Let India boaft her plants, nor envy w The weeping amber and the balmy tree While by our oaks the precious loads are born And realms commanded which thofe trees adorm Pope Ewvergreen n. / [ilex. fignifie like robur amon Oaxa'vPLE, n. [ [oak and apple. kind of fpongy excrefcence on the oak Another kind of excrefcence is an #xudation o plants joined with putrefadtion, as in cakapples which. are found chiefly vpon the leaves of oaks Bacon's Natural Hiflory OA'kEN. adj. [from oak. gathered from oak Made of oak No nation "doth equal England for oaken timbe wherewith to build fhips. Bacon's Adwvic to' Villiors By lot from Jove 1 am: the pow' Of this fair wood, and live in oaken bow's. Milton Clad in white velvet all their trosp they led With each an oaken chaplet on his head Dryden An oaken garland. to be worn on feftivals, wa the recompenfe of one who had covered 'a citiz e in battle He fnatched a.good.tough oaker cud d b gan to brandifh i Arbuthnot's ¥ bn Bull Oa'kEnrIN Oakenpin z. An apple fo_called from its hardnefs is a laft'n fruit, yields excellent liquor, and is near the natur of the Weftbury apple, though not in form Oakum Dortimer /. [A word probably forme Cords untwiffe and reduced to hemp, with whic mingled with pitch, leaks are fiopped. They make their oakum, whetewith they" chalk th feam o th beaten ropes, whe thips of old. feer and weather they are over fpent and grow {o rotten as they ferve for no other ufe but t make rottenr ozkum whic moulders and wafhes awa with every fea as the fhips labour and are toffed Raleigh Some drive old cakum thro' each feam and rift Their left hand does the calking-iron guide ;. The rattling mallet with the right they lift, Dryd OAR. . /. [ane, Saxon; perhapsby al lufion to the common exprefiion: o plowing the water,. from the fame roo with ear, to plow; aro, Latin.], longpole with a broad end, by whi veffels are driven in the water, the refiftance made by water to the oar puf ing on the veffel Th' cars were filver Which to the tune of flutes kept ftroke, and made The water which they beat, to follow faften As amorous of their ftrolces,- Shak. Ant. and Clegpor So tow'rds 4 fhip the onr-finn'd gallies ply ‘Which wanting fea to ride, or wind to fly Stands butto fall reveng'd Dierhan's Plemsv In fhipping fuch' as this; the Frifh ker And untaught Indian; on the ftream did'glide E'er fharp-keel'd boats to- fem che flood. did learny Or fin-like ours did fpread from either fides Dryds It ‘progreffiv motion ma be effedted by the help of feveral oavs, which' in the:outward ends of them-fhall be like the fins of a-fifh to contralk and dilate The fruit is an acorn like the common oak The wood of this tree is accounted very good: fo many forts of tools and utenfils; and affords th moft durable charcoal in the world Diller ‘Wi en folk perceives it thriveth not The fault therein to fmother Some filly doating brainlefs calf That underftands things by the half 2 flicking clofe to the body of the tree withou ttalk Bacon's Natural Hiftory The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees Shoots rifing up, and fpreads by flow degrees Oa Thefe, when a child haps to be got Whic No tree beareth fo many baftard truits as the oak for befides the acorns, it beareth galls, cak apples oak nuts, which are inflammable, and oa? berries by fome corruption. 7o Oar. w. [fro the noun. Wilkinse T row He more undaunted on the ruir rode And car'd with labouring arms along the flood Popee 70 OaRr To impel by rowing @. a His boldhea *Rove the contentious waves lic kept, andaar' Himfelf with his good ‘arms in lufty firoke Shakefpeare's Tempeff To th' thore adj{fro Oa'RY oar. Having th form or ufe of oars The. fwan with arched neck, Between her white wings mantling, proudly rows M Her frate with sety feet Fiis hair transforms to down, hifs fingers meet In fkinny films, and thape his cary fects Addifonr OasT a. / A kiln Not in ule Empty the binn into a hog-bag," and carry thent' immedTately to the ogf? or kiln, to be drieds ~ Mortimer Oatca'ks m / [oat and cake. Cax 1 made of the meal of oats oaft o have malk the Take a blue {ton i lay it: upon the¢ crofs crofs bars of iron an upon Oa'rex. adj. [from eat.] Made b bearing oats Whe T i |