Obediencer, n. an obedientiary, one owning obedience (to a monastery, &c.); an administrative officer of a religious house, VIII b 95. [OFr. obediencier.]
Obitte, adj. dead, XVI 269. [Nonce-use of L. obitus, deceased.]
Obout. See Aboute(n).
Occean, n. Ocean (as name of Indian Ocean), IX 9. [OFr. occean.]
Occupacio(u)n, n. occupation, employment, XI b 156, 251, 288, &c. [OFr. occupacion.]
Occupied (aboute, in), pp. occupied (with, in), XI b 114, 218, 242, 262. [OFr. occuper, altered on anal. of verbs in -fier, -plier, &c.]
Od, adj. odd, (some) over, XVII 57. [ON. odda-, in odda-maðr; see N.E.D., s.v. Odd.]
Oder. See Oþer(e), adj.
Of, Offe, adv. off, V 181, 340; of, out of, from (after þat relative), VI 65, IX 135, 282, &c.; (with infin.) IX 257, 282, &c.; of the whiche ... offe, see next. [OE. of.] See Her(e), Þar(e), Þer(e).
Of, Off, VII 5; O, II 12, 283, VI 69, VII 18; prep. of. (i) From, off, out of, II 29, III 4, 36, V 131, 153, 179, VI 247, VII 169, VIII a 204, &c.; out of, (made) of, in, II 4, 362, IX 115, XVII 119, &c. (ii) By, III 18, IV b 5, V 99, IX 55, XI b 31, 204, &c.; by (means of), with, II 364, IX 65, &c. (iii) Of, about, concerning, I 160, II 5, 12, III 3, VIII a 197, IX 147, XI b 1, 295, &c. (iv) Forming equiv. of gen.: as possess., I 34, 216, &c.; adjectival, II 3, IV b 34, &c. (see the nouns); in, as regards, &c., V 170, VI 71, VII 18, 38, 164 (first), VIII a 52, XII a 9, XVI 129, XVII 543, &c.; of breed, &c., in breadth, &c., XVII 123, 125, 259, 520; (introd. actual measurement), IX 155, XVII 126; objective gen., at, for, on acc. of, &c., II 471, 573, VIII a 38, 117, XI b 10 (first), XII a 144, &c.; grame ... of, wrath against, XVII 90; partitive, of, among, in, VII 43 (see Oþere), VIII a 259, IX 182, XI a 39, XVI 388 (cf. note to II 388); after Fr. idiom, IX 158, 227, 275, XII a 66; see Ony, Oþer(e), Owen; adverbial (of time), for VIII a 253; in, XI b 136. Of the whiche ... offe, of whom ... from, of which, from whom (mixed E. and Fr. constr.), IX 25, 77; of preiere of holy lif (XI b 83), see Vnderstonden; for other idiomatic uses see the nouns, &c., concerned. [OE. of.]