offscouring

[Eng. off, and scouring.] That which is rubbed or scoured off in cleaning anything; hence, refuse, rubbish, rejected matter; that which is rejected, thrown away, or despised. "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people." -Lamentations iii. 45. off-scŭm, s. & a. [Eng. off, and scum.] A. As subst.: Refuse, rubbish; that which is rejected or despised. *B. As adj .: Refuse, low, vile. "The off scum rascals of men." -Trans. of Boccalini, p. 207. (1626.) off-set, s. [Eng. off, and set.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A child, a scion, a descendant. "His man-minded offset." Tennyson: Talking Oak , 51. 2. A spur or branch from a range of mountains or hills. II. Technically: 1. Architecture: (1) A splay or narrow slanting course of stone or brick, serving to connect two portions of a wall, the uppermost of which recedes from the face of that beneath. (2) A break or rece in a front, setting back from the general surface. 2. Comm.: A sum, quantity, or amount set off as an equivalent for another sum or account; hence, a set off, anything given or allowed as an equivalent or exchange. 3. Hort .: A young radical bulb or shoot, which, being properly and carefully separated from the parent roots, and planted, serves to propagate the species. Closely allied to a Runner (q.v.). Example, Sempervivum. "They produce such a number of offsets , that many times one single cluster has contained above a hundred roots."-Miller: Gardener's Dictionary. 4. Surv .: A short course measured perpendicularly to a longer one, as from the main line to the hedge, fence, or extremity of an inclosure, field, . The method of offsets is employed in surveying fields bounded by irregular lines. offset-staff, s. IMG:content-0254.png:[blocks in formation] 2. One of the characters used in this kind of writing. They consisted principally of straight lines, the significance of which depended on their position relative to a chief line, through, over, or under which they were drawn, singly or in groups, either perpendicularly or obliquely. The place of this chief line was sometimes filled by the edge of the substance (usually stone) on which the oghams were incised. 3. A particular mode of speech. o-ghi-gee, s. [Native name.] [SPONDIAS.] ō-giv-al, a. [Eng. ogiv (e); -al.] Arch .: Of or pertaining to an ogive or ogee; in shape of an ogee. ō'-gle, v. t. & i. [Prob. from a Dut. * oogelen , a frequent. of oogen =to cast sheep's eyes upon one; cf. Low Ger. oegeln to ogle; O. Dut. oogheler=a flatterer, from Dut. ooge =the eye.] A. Trans.: Τo look at with side glances, as with a wish to attract attention, or in fondne . B. In trans.: To cast side glances with a view to attract attention, or in fondne . "To patch, nay ogle , may become a saint." Pope : Rape of the Lock , v. 28. ō'-gle, s. [OGLE, v.] A side glance or look. "For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs." Ohm (3), s. [See the compound.] Ohm's law, 8. IMG:content-0255.png:[blocks in formation] ō-gre-işm (gre as ger), ō'-grism, subst . [Eng. ogre; -ism.] The character or habits of ogres. ō-gre (1), s. [Fr. ogre e .) A female ogre. ō-gre (2), s. [Fr. ogre e .] Her.: A cannon-ball or pellet of a black color. *ō-gril-lon, subst . [Fr.] A little ogre. ( Thack- eray.) "On thy palette lie the blended oils ." Tickell : To Sir Godfrey Kneller. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia For many oils see the word with which oil is To strike oil: IMG:content-0257.png:[blocks in formation] *oil of holly, s. A beating. ( Slang .) oil of male fern, s . 2. Fig .: To make smooth or pleasant; to smooth "Error, oiled with obsequiousne has often the in the rhizomes of the male fern. It is used as an anthelmintic. *oil of talc, 8. A cosmetic common in the seven- teenth century, consisting of tale calcined. "She ne'er had or hath Any belief in Madam Baubdee's bath Or Turner's oil of tale." Oiled, *oyled, pa . par . or a. [OIL, v.] oiled-leather, s. Leather dre ed with oil; as, chamois-leather. oiled-paper, s . [TRACING-PAPER.] oiled-silk, s . IMG:content-0258.png:[blocks in formation] Ichthy.: Clupea scombrina. [SARDINE.] oil-seed, s . Bot.: (1) Verbesina sativa ; (2) Guizotia oleifera ; (3) Ricinus communis. [CASTOR-OIL.] IMG:content-0259.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0260.png:[blocks in formation] of petroleum are liable to explode. That usually employed consists in heating the oil in a porcelain ve el surrounded by a hot-water bath. A wire is placed inch above the rim of the ve el, and when a thermometer, whose bulb is submerged 14 inches below the surface of the oil, indicates the desired heat, say 90°, a small flame is pa ed quickly along produced, the heat is continued and the test as plied at every 3o above this until the flashing-point is reached. IMG:content-0261.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0262.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0263.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: The genus Sesamum (q.v.). oily-palm, 8 . Ο. Κ. O. K., phr. See def.] A slang abbreviation of "Orl Korrect"=All Correct. To "O. K." an account is to vouch for its correctne . This practice has become general in busine circles. ōke, s. [Turk.] 1. A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2% lbs. 2. A Hungarian and Wall a chi an measure of capacity, equal to about 21⁄2 pints. ō-kěn-ite, s. [After Oken, the German naturalist; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A mineral occurring in closely aggregated minute acicular crystals, sometimes fibrous, diverg. ing, also compact. Crystallization, orthorhombic (7). Hardne , 4.5-5; specific gravity, 2-28-2-37; luster, somewhat pearly, sometimes opalescent; color, white when pure; tough. Composition; Silica, 56-6; lime, 26.4; water, 17.0=100. Found in old dolerites ("traps"). ō-kla-hō-ma, 8. [Am. Indian beautiful land.] A Territory of the U. S. organized May 2, 1890, out of portions of Indian Territory, the Public Land Strip, and the Cherokee outlet. Area, 39 030 square miles. Principal towns, Oklahoma, the metropolis; Guthrie, the capital; Still water and Kingfisher. ök-rą, ok'-rō, s. [OCHRA.] ok-tib-be-hite, s. [After Oktibbeh (a) County, Mi ouri; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A name given by Shepard to a group of meteoric irons, in which the proportions of iron and nickel would correspond to the formula, FeNi. -ol, suff . [Eng. ( alcohol .] Chem.: terminating compounds are true alcohols. Thus, phenol-phenylic alcohol . Öl-a-ca-çě-æ, s . pl . [Lat. olax (gen it. olac ( is ); fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ .] IMG:content-0264.png:[blocks in formation] old-accustomed, a . Customary from old times. old age, s. That period or portion of life past middle-age; advanced age or years. IMG:content-0265.png:[blocks in formation] on Old Glory, s . The American flag. This name was first applied to the stars and stripes in 1831 by a Salem, Ma ., skipper named William Driver, who was at that time captain of the brig Charles Doggett. Captain Driver was a succe ful deep sea-sailor, and at the time of bestowing the name "Old Glory" the flag he was preparing to shape the brig's course to the southern Pacific. Just before the brig left Salem, a young man at the head of a party of friends saluted Captain Driver on the deck of his ve el and presented him with a large and beautifully made American flag. It was sent aloft, and when flung to the breeze Captain Driver christened it "Old Glory." He took it to the south Pacific, and years after, when old age forced him to relinquish the sea, he treasured the flag as an old friend. In 1837 Captain Driver removed to Nashville, Tenn., and he died there in 1886. Previous to the outbreak of hostilities between the North and South "Old Glory" was flung to the breeze every day from the window of Captain Driver's Nashville house, but when the conflict began the old flag had to be secreted. It was power of resistance to detrimental change becomes le after the climacteric (q. v.), and prepares the way for the total failure of some e ential organ with fatal results. [DEATH.] Bot .: Olacads; an order of Hypogynous Exogens, alliance Berberales. It consists of trees or shrubs, often spiny, with simple, rarely compound, alter- nate, entire, exstipulate leaves; the calyx small, entire, or slightly toothed, often becoming at last enlarged; petals definite, separate, or cohering in pairs by the intervention of stamens; three to ten of the stamens fertile; ovary one-celled, or occasion- ally imperfectly three or four-celled; ovules two. three, or one; style filiform; stigma simple. Fruit drupaceous, one-celled, one-seeded. Mostly from the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. quence of its definition, formed themselves into a Known genera, twenty-three; species uncertain. (Lindley.) Öl-a-căd, s. [Lat. olax (gen it. olac(is); Eng. suff. -ad.] Bot . ( pl .): Lindley's name for the Olacaceae. õl'-a-fite, s. [Etym. doubtful.] Min.: A name apparently given by Breithaupt to the "oligoclase-albite" of Scheerer, a felspar included by Dana under albite. It contains an exce of protoxides.