The common names, such as bee orchis, fly orchis, butterfly orchis,
etc., allude to the peculiar form of the flower.
||Or*chi"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a testicle + -itis.] (Med.)
||Inflammation of the testicles.
Or*chot"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; a testicle + &?; to cut.] (Surg.) The
operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife;
castration.
Or"cin (?), n. [Etymology uncertain: cf. F. orcine.] (Chem.) A
colorless crystalline substance, C6H3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from
certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes,
and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes
readily into orcein.
Ord (?), n. [AS. ord point.] An edge or point; also, a beginning. [
Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.
Ord and end, the beginning and end. Cf. Odds and ends, under Odds.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. Halliwell.
Or*dain" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordained (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Ordaining.] [OE. ordeinen, OF. ordener, F. ordonner, fr. L. ordinare,
from ordo, ordinis, order. See Order, and cf. Ordinance.] 1. To set in
order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
"Battle well ordained." Spenser.
The stake that shall be ordained on either side.
Chaucer.
2. To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to
constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month.