oboe (oe as 61)

(Ital. oboèe, from Fr. hautbois.] Music : A hautboy (q. v.). toboe d'amore, s. Music: An instrument of the same construction as the ordinary oboe, but standing a minor third lower, being in the key of A. This instrument has been again brought into use for the special purpose of playing Bach's scores correctly. *oboe di caccia, s . 2885 Music: Hunting-oboe; an old name for an instrument resembling a ba oon on a miniature scale. They are in the key of F or Eb, and are played with a small ba oon reed. ō-bō-Ist, s. [Eng. obo(e); -ist.) A player on the oboe; a hautboy ist. *ob-o-lar-ỹ, a. [Lat. obol(us); Eng. adj. suff. -ary.] Pertaining to or consisting of small coin; po e ing only small coins; poor, reduced. ( Lamb .) ob'-ōle, ob-õl, s. [OBOLUS.] Pharm.: A weight of ten (or, according to some, twelve) grains, or half a scruple. ob-o-lěl-la, s . [Mod. Lat., dim. of obolus (q.v.).] Palæont .: A genus of Lingulidæ, from the Cam brian and Lower Silurian, differing from Obolus in the arrangement of the muscular impre ions. ob-o-lite, s. [Lat. obol(us), and suff. -ite.] Any fo il shell of the genus Obolus (q. v.). obolite-grit, s. *3. Foul, filthy, disgusting, offensive. "The boar's obscener shape the god belies." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, iv. 618. *4. Inauspicious, ill-omened, unlucky. "The guilty serpents and obscener beasts." Cowley: Hymn to Light. ob-sçēne-lý, adv . [Eng. obscene; -ly.] In an obscene manner; indecently, lewdly. "Then, on a lofty beam, the matron ty'd The noose dishonest, and obscenely dy'd." Pitt: Virgil's Æneid, zii.