||Ol`la-po*dri"da (?), n. [Sp., lit., a rotten pot. See Olio.] 1. A
||favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of
||meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.
2. Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection; an olio. B.
Jonson.
Ol"o*gy (?), n. [See -logy.] A colloquial or humorous name for any
science or branch of knowledge.
He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology, geology,
mineralogy, and all other ologies whatsoever.
De Quincey.
||Ol"pe (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.] Originally, a leather flask or
||vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher
||without a spout.
||O*lu"sa*trum (?), n. [L. holusatrum, olusatrum; olus garden herb +
||ater black.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of
||Western Europe (Smyrnium Olusatrum).
O*lym"pi*ad (*lm"p*d), n. [L. olympias, -adis, Gr. 'olympia`s, -a`dos,
fr. 'O`lympos Olympus, a mountain in Macedonia: cf. F. olympiade.]
(Greek Antiq.) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks
reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic
games to another, beginning with the victory of Corœbus in the foot
race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the
olympiads.
{ O*lym"pi*an (-an), O*lym"pic (- pk), } a. [L. Olympius, Olympicus,
Gr. 'Oly`mpios, 'Olympiko`s, fr. 'O`lympos: cf. F. olympique. See
Olympiad.] Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled
as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis.
Olympic games, or Olympics (Greek Antiq.), the greatest of the national
festivals of the ancient Greeks, consisting of athletic games and
races, dedicated to Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four years at
Olympia, and continuing five days.
O*lym`pi*on"ic (?), n. [Gr. &?; a conqueror in the Olympic games.] An
ode in honor of a victor in the Olympic games. [R.] Johnson.
-o"ma (?). [Gr. &?;, &?;.] A suffix used in medical terms to denote a
morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in
fibroma, glaucoma.
||Om"a*gra (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; shoulder + &?; seizure.] (Med.)
||Gout in the shoulder.
O"ma*has" (?), n. pl.; sing. Omaha (&?;). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians
who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly
civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.
O*man"der wood` (?). [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) The wood of Diospyros
ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon.
||O*ma"sum (?), n. [L.] (Anat.) The third division of the stomach of
||ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.
{ Om"ber, Om"bre} (?), n. [F. hombre, fr. Sp. hombre, lit., a man, fr.
L. homo. See Human.] A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and
usually played by three persons. Pope.
When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two,
he fails not to make three.
Young.
Om"bre, n. [F., of uncertain origin.] (Zoöl.) A large Mediterranean
food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine.
Om*brom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; rain + -meter: cf. F. ombrométre.]
(Meteorol.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain
gauge.
O*me"ga (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, i.e., the great or long o. Cf.
Mickle.] 1. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. See Alpha.