Defn: The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.
ORCIN
Or"cin, n. Etym: [Etymology uncertain: cf. F. orcine.] (Chem.)
Defn: 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
Ord, n. Etym: [AS. ord point.]
Defn: 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.
ORDAIN
Or*dain", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ordained; p. pr. & vb. n. Ordaining.]
Etym: [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. 1 Kings xii. 32. And doth the power that man adores ordain Their doom Byron.
3. To set apart for an office; to appoint. Being ordained his special governor. Shak.
4. (Eccl.)