Odalsthing.
See Storthing.
Œcumenical Councils.
The General Councils of the Church accepted by ecclesiastical authorities as genuinely Œcumenical are twenty-one in number, namely: two of Nicæa, four of Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, five Lateran Councils, two of Lyons, Vienna, Constance, Basle, Florence, Trent and the Vatican.
Œil de Bœuf.
The name given to the antechamber in the Palace of Versailles. It was so called from two bull’s-eye windows near the ceiling.
Ohio Company.
A company of Virginian settlers who colonised the Ohio Valley under a charter from the British Government in 1749.
Old Abe.
A nickname of President Abraham Lincoln.