opobalsam (opobalsam)

same, opobalsamum = Sp. opobálsamo = Pg. opobalsamo, opobalsamum (op-o-bal'sa-mum), n. [LL.: see opobalsam.] Same as opobalsam. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 119. opodeldoc (op-o-del'dok), n. [Also opodeldock; = F. opodeldoch, opodeltoch; appar. a made-up name, perhaps based on Gr. ὀπός, juice.] 1. A plaster said to have been invented by Mindererus.-2. A saponaceous camphorated lin i white and palatable, especially in the autumn, when they feed much on fruits, and become as fat as pigs. They com monly appear stupid, and in confinement continue sullen they feign death, and will submit to the most brutal maltreatment without showing a sign of animation, whence the proverbial expre ion "to play po um." Most opo ums belong to the genus Didelphys, ranging from middle latitudes in the United States through the greater part of South America. The commonest and best-known is D. virgin i intractable. When caught or or threatened with danger ana. There are perhaps a dozen others, among them pouch le ones, as D. dorsigera. The yapoks or water opo ums of South America form another genus, Chiro nectes. Amongst the Beasts in Virginia there are two kinds most strange. One of them is the Female Po owne , which ursine opo um (that is, the ursine dasyure); the vulpine opo um (the vulpine phalangist). opo um-mouse (o-pos'um-mous), n. A very small marsupial mammal of Australia, Acro bates pygmæus; the pygmy petaurist, one of the flying-phalangers. See Acrobates. opo um-shrew (o-pos'um-shrö), n. An insectivorous mammal of the genus Solenodon. opo um-shrimp (ō-pos'um-shrimp), n. A schizopodous crustacean or shrimp of the family Opo um-shrimp ( Mysis mixt a ). Mysida: so called because the females their eggs in pouches between the thoracic legs. See Mysis. opoterodont (o-pote-ro-dont), a. and n. 1. a. Of or pertaining to the Opoterodonta. II. n. One of the Opoterodonta . Opoterodonta, Opoterodontia (ō-pote-rōộ - don'tä, -shi-ä), n. pl. [NL., prop. prop. * * Hopotero- dont a , etc., ὁπότερος , either, + ὁδούς (ὁδοντ-) = E. tooth .] A suborder of Ophidia , contain- ing angiostomatous or scolecophidian serpents of small size and resembling worms, having a contracted non-distensible mouth and imper- fect vision. The opisthotic bone is intercalated in the cranial walls, the palatines bound the cho anæ behind, the ethmoturbinals partly roof over the mouth, the maxillary bone is vertical and free, and there are no ectopterygoids and no pubes. The suborder is conterminous with the family Typhlopidæ , and is also called Epa no dont a . See Typhlopida. oppidan (op'i-dan), a . and n. [OF. oppidain , oppidan us , of or in a town, oppidum , OL. oppedum , a walled town, perhaps ob , before, toward, + * pedum (cf. Pedum , a town in Lati- um), country, = Gr. πέδον , a plain.] I. a. Per- taining to a town; town. The temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs. Howell , Letters, I. i. 38. II. n. 11. An inhabitant of a town. The oppidans , in the mean time, were not wanting to trouble us. A. Wood , Annals Univ. Oxford, an. 1528. 2. At Eton College, a student who is not on the foundation, and who boards with one of the masters or with a private family in the town: distinguished from a colleger. oppigneratet, oppignoratet (o-pig'ne-rāt, -nōrat), v. t. [L. oppigneratus (ML. also oppig noratus ), pp. of oppignerare (> F. oppignorer ), pledge, pawn, The form and manner of swearing by oppignora tion , or engaging of some good which we would not lose: as, "Our rejoicing in Christ," our salvation, God's help, . Bp . Andrews , Sermons, V. 74. ( Davies .) oppilate (op'i-lāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. oppilated, ppr. oppilating. [ IMG:content-1762.jpg:[graphic] eram.