orontiad (orontiad)

A plant of the group Orontiacea. Lindley. Orontium (o-ron's hium), n. 1753), said to be [NL. (Linnæus, Orphic II. n. A child bereaved of one parent or of both parents, generally the latter. And saith he will not leaue them orphanes, as fat herl e e Sir T. More, Works, p. 173. children, but wil come again to them himself. A weeping country joins a widow's tear; The helple poor mix with the orphan's cry. Burns , Death of Sir James Hunter Blair. IMG:content-1867.png:[graphic] Syria.] A genus of monocotyledonous plants of the order Araceæ, belonging to the suborder Pothoideæ and the tribe Symplocarpeæ, allied to the skunk-cabbage. It is chiefly distinguished by the remote sheathing spathe and one-celled ovary. There IMG:content-1868.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small] is but one species, O. aquaticum, the golden club, which grows on the margins of ponds and rivers of the United States near the Atlantic. It bears velvety dark-green elliptical leaves, floating or raised on stout stalks from a rootstock descending into the mud. Its small flowers are crowded on a long curving spadix, rising 6 to 12 inches from the water, colored succe ively yellow, white, and green. IMG:content-1869.png:[blocks in formation] orphan (or'fan), v. t. [ For this orphaned world the Holy Spirit made the like charitable provision. War burton , Sermons. orphanage (or'fan-āj), n. [ orphan +-age.] 1. The state of being an orphan.-2. An institution or home for orphans.-3. Orphans collectively. In London the share of the children (or orphanage part) is not fully vested in them till the age of twenty-one, before which they cannot dispose of it by testament. Black stone , Com., II. xxxii. orphan-asylum (or'fan-a-si"lum), n. An asylum or home for destitute orphan children. orphancyt (or'fan-si), n. [ Yet did not thy Orphancie nor my Widowhood depriue vs of the delight full prospect which the hill of honour doth yeeld. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii.