ourapterx

[ Gr.our a =a tail, and pteryx =a wing.] Entom.: The typical genus of the family Ourapteryde (q. v.). ôu-rär-1, s. [CURARI.] ôu'-răx, s. [Gr. ourax, the Attic name of a gallinaceous bird; probably a kind of grouse.] Ornith.: A genus of Cracine (True Cura ows). The bill is shorter and thicker than that of Crax, the membrane at the base and the adjacent parts 1. To be bound in duty or by moral obligation. of the head, with short velvety feathers. Ourax Romans xv. 1. 2. To be nece ary; to behoove. "Well ought a man avised for to be." Chaucer: C. T., 4,331. 3. To be fitting, becoming, or expedient morally. "My brethren, these things ought not so to be."-James iii. 10.