OR
Or, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. aurum gold. Cf. Aureate.] (Her.)
Defn: Yellow or gold color, — represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
ORA
O"ra, n. Etym: [AS. See 2d Ore.]
Defn: A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the
Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
ORABASSU
O`ra*bas"su, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C.
Moloch.
ORACH; ORACHE
Or"ach, Or"ache, n. Etym: [F. arroche, corrupted fr. L. atriplex, Gr.
Arrach.] (Bot.)
Defn: A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; — also called mountain spinach.
ORACLE Or"a*cle, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. oraculum, fr. orare to speak, utter, pray, fr. os, oris, mouth. See Oral.]
1. The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or battle. Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand. Drayton.