orillion, orillon (orilyon)

[F. orillon, oreillon, almonds of the ears, mumps, in fort. orillion, oreille, ear: see oreillette.] In fort., a rounding of earth, faced with a wall, raised on the shoulder of those bastions that have casemates, to cover the cannon in the retired flank, and prevent their being dismounted. oriloget, n. A Middle English form of horologe. selves indigenous, nor perhaps the original occupants of the soil. See primary. - 3. Inventive, creative. II. n. 11. Origin; source; starting-point; first i ue; beginning. their death here. It hath its original from much grief, from study and perturbation of the brain. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 131. Some of our people that are dead took the original of Mourt's Journal, in Appendix to New [England's Memorial, p. 349. Hence-2t. Parentage; ancestry; pedigree; descent; derivation; extraction; birth. ner. original ne (ō-rij'i-nal-nes), n. The quality or state of being original. Johnson. origin ant (ō-rij'i-nant), a. [ An obsolete form of urinal . orinasal (ō-ri-nā'zal), a. and n. [L. os (or-), the mouth, + nas us, the nose: see nasal.] I. a. Pertaining to both the nose and the mouth. II. n. See the quotation. If the nasal pa age is left open at all, the vowel is "nasalized," and as it resounds partly in the nose and partly in the mouth it becomes an orinasal.