Oc`a*ri"na (?), n. [Cf. It. carino pretty.] (Mus.) A kind of small simple wind instrument.
O"dal (?), n. [Cf. Icel. &?;al, Dan. odel allodial, Sw. odal.] (Law) Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance, etc., and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.
O"dal, a. (Law) Noting, or pert. to, odal land or ownership.
{ O"dal*man (?), O"dal*wom`an (?) }, n. (Teut. Law) A man or woman having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
Odd"ment (?), n. [Odd + - ment.] An odd thing, or one that is left over, disconnected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows; esp. (in pl.), the odds and ends. Specif.: (Printing) Any separate small part or page in a book, other than the text, such as the title page, contents, etc.
A miscellaneous collection of riddles, charms, gnomic verses, and "oddments" of different kinds.
Saintsbury.
||O"dels*thing (?), n. [Norw. odel odal + ting parliament.] The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See Legislature.
O"din*ism (?), n. Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. -- O"din*ist, n.
Odinism was valor; Christianism was humility, a nobler kind of valor.
Carlyle.
O"do*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; way + - graph.] 1. A machine for registering the distance traversed by a vehicle or pedestrain.
2. A device for recording the length and rapidity of stride and the number of steps taken by a walker.
O*dom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, an instrument for measuring distances; &?; way + &?; measure: cf. F. odomètre, hodomètre.] An instrument attached to a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed. -- Od`o*met"ric*al (#), a.
||Œil`-de-bœuf" (?), n.; pl. Œils-de-bœuf (#). [F., lit., eye of an ox.] (Arch.) A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it.
||Œil`-de-per`drix" (?), a. [F., lit., eye of a partridge.] 1. (Ornamental Art) Characterized by, or decorated with, small round points, spots, or rings; as, œil-de-perdrix pattern.