The country gentlemen had a posset or drink they called October.
Emerson.
||Oc*toc"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL.] Octocerata.
||Oc`to*cer"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr.&?; eight + &?;, a horn.]
||(Zoöl.) A suborder of Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and
||allied genera, having eight arms around the head; -- called also
||Octopoda.
Oc"to*chord (?), n. (Mus.) See Octachord.
Oc`todec"i*mo (?), a. [L. octodecim eighteen. See Octavo, Decimal, and
-mo.] Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book,
leaf, size, etc.
Oc`to*dec"i*mo, n.; pl. Octodecimos (&?;). A book composed of sheets
each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or
less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually
written 18mo or 18°, and called eighteenmo.
Oc`to*den"tate (?), a. [Octo- + dentate.] Having eight teeth.
Oc"to*dont (?), a. [Octo- + Gr. &?;, &?;.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to
the Octodontidæ, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many
other South American species.
Oc`to*ed"ric*al (?), a. See Octahedral. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Oc"to*fid (?), a. [Octo- + root of L. findere to split: cf.F.
octofide.] (Bot.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.
Oc*tog"a*my (?), n. [Octo- + Gr. &?; marriage.] A marrying eight times.
[R.] Chaucer.
Oc`to*ge*na"ri*an (?), n. A person eighty years, or more, of age.
Oc*tog"e*na*ry (?), a. [L. octogenarrus, from octogeni eighty each,
octoginta eighty, fr. octo eight. See Eight, Eighty.] Of eighty years
of age. "Being then octogenary." Aubrey.
Oc"to*gild (?), n. [Octo- + AS. gild payment.] (Anglo-Saxon Law) A
pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the
thing.