obi2 (obi)

[Jap.] sash of some soft ma terial, figured or embroidered in gay colors, worn by the women of Japan. It is a long strip of cloth about a foot wide, wound round the waist several times, and tied behind in a large bow, which varies in style according to the social condition of the wearer. They [the Japanese children] wore gay embroidered obis , or large sashes. They are of great width, and are fastened tightly round the waist, while an enormous bow behind reaches from between the shoulders to far below the hips. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xix. obiism (ō'bi-izm), n. [ obi1 . obi-man (ō'bi-man), n. A man who practises obi. Also obe a - man , obeah - man . obimbricate (ob-im'bri-kat), a . bricate.] In bot . , imbricated, or succe ively overlapping downward: noting an involucre in which the exterior scales are progre ively longer than the interior ones. obispo (o-bis'pō), n. [Sp., = E. bishop .] The bishop-ray, Ætobatis narinari . [Cuba.] obit (o'bit or ob'it), n . [Early mod. E. also obet ; obite , obyte = OF. obit = Sp. óbito = Pg. [ ob- + im It may be permi ible to remark, obiter , that "St." does not stand for "Santo" or " San," but for "Saint." N. and Q., 7th ser., IV. 272. Obiter dictum (pl. obiter dicta ), something said by the way or incidentally, and not as the result of deliberate judgment; a pa ing remark; specifically, an incidental opinion given by a judge, in contradistinction from his judicial decision of the e ential point. See dictum. His [Gray's] obiter dicta have the weight of wide reading and much reflection by a man of delicate apprehension and tenacious memory for principles. Lowell , New Princeton Rev., I. 169. obit-songt (ō'bit-sông), n. A funeral song; a dirge. They spice him sweetly, with salt teares among, And of sad sighes they make their Obiit - song [read obit- song ]. Holy Roode , p. 27. ( Davies .)