1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; — with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton. Obnoxious, first or last, To basest things Milton.
2. Liable to censure; exposed to punishment; reprehensible; blameworthy. "The contrived and interested schemes of …obnoxious authors." Bp. Fell. All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. Waller.
3. Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an obnoxious statesman; a minister
obnoxious to the Whigs. Burke.
— Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv.
— Ob*nox"ious*ness, n. South.
OBNUBILATE Ob*nu"bi*late, v. t. Etym: [L. obnubilatus, p.p. of obnubilare to obscure. See Ob-, and Nubilate.]
Defn: To cloud; to obscure. [Obs.] Burton.
— Ob*nu"bi*la"tion, n. [Obs.] Beddoes.
OBOE
O"boe, n. Etym: [It., fr. F. hautbois. See Hautboy.] (Mus.)
Defn: One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.
OBOIST
O"bo*ist, n.
Defn: A performer on the oboe.
OBOLARY
Ob"o*la*ry, a. Etym: [See Obolus.]