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Webster Dictionary :: Obreptitious

OBREPTI'TIOUS, a. [supra.] Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy or by conc...

Webster Dictionary :: Obscene

OBSCE'NE, a. [L. obscaenus.] 1. Offensive to chastity and delicacy; impure; expr...

Webster Dictionary :: Obscenely

OBSCE'NELY, adv. In a manner offensive to chastity or purity; impurely; unchastely.

Webster Dictionary :: Obsceneness

OBSCE'NENESS, OBSCEN'ITY, n. [L. obscaenitas.] 1. Impurity in expression or repr...

Webster Dictionary :: Obscuration

OBSCURA'TION, n. [L. obscuratio.] 1. The act of darkening. 2. The state of being...

Webster Dictionary :: Obscure

OBSCU'RE, a. [L. obscurus.] 1. Dark; destitute of light. Whoso curseth his fathe...

Webster Dictionary :: Obscurely

OBSCU'RELY, adv. 1. Darkly; not clearly; imperfectly; as an object obscurely See...

Webster Dictionary :: Obscureness

OBSCU'RENESS, OBSCU'RITY, n. [L. obscuritas.] 1. Darkness; want of light. We wai...

Webster Dictionary :: Obsecrate

OB'SECRATE, v.t. [L. obsecro.] To beseech; to intreat; to supplicate; to pray ea...

Webster Dictionary :: Obsecration

OBSECRA'TION, n. 1. Intreaty; supplication. 2. A figure of rhetoric, in which th...

Webster Dictionary :: Obsequent

OB'SEQUENT, a. [L. obsequens.] Obedient; submissive to. [Little used.]

Webster Dictionary :: Obsequies

OB'SEQUIES, n. plu. [L. obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow.] Fune...

Webster Dictionary :: Obsequious

OBSE'QUIOUS, a. [from L. obsequium, complaisance, from obsequor, to follow; ob a...

Webster Dictionary :: Obsequiously

OBSE'QUIOUSLY, adv. 1. With ready obedience; with prompt compliance. They rise a...

Webster Dictionary :: Obsequiousness

OBSE'QUIOUSNESS, n. 1. Ready obedience; prompt compliance with the orders of a s...

Webster Dictionary :: Observable

OBSERV'ABLE, a. s as z. [See Observe .] 1. That may be observed or noticed. 2. W...

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