Obfuscate

ob-fus'kat, v. To darken; obscure, be- wilder, confuse. [L. obtuscare, -catum, ob and fuscare, to make dark, Ir.fuscua, dark.] — ObfUBca'- tion, n. Act of, or state of being, etc. Obi. Same as Obeah. Obit, o'bit or ob'it, n. Death decease funeral solemnities; anniversary of a person's death; an anniversary service for the soul of the deceased on the day of his death. [OF.; L. dbitus, obire, to go to meet (mortem), to die, ob and ire, to go.] — Obit'- ual, -u-al, a. Pert, to obits, or days when funeral solemnities are celebrated.— Obit'uary, -u-a-rT, a. Relating to the decease of a person. — n. A biographical notice of one lately deceased. Object, ob'jekt, That with which the mind is occupied in the act of knowing; any visible or tangible thing; that which sought or labored for or aimed at; end; aim; motive; final cause. (Gram.) That toward which an activity considered to be directed. [Fr. the verb.] — Object', v. To set before; bring into opposition; to present or offer in opposition, as a criminal charge, or as a reason adverse to something supposed to be wrong. — v. To make opposition in words or argument. [OF. objecter, L. objicere, -jectum, ob and jacere, to throw.] — Ob'- ject-les's on, n. A le on in which object-teaching employed. —teaching, n. A method of instruction in which each new word or idea is accompanied by an object illustrating what signifies, — employed esp. in the kindergarten. — Objec'tion, n. Act of objecting that presented in opposition adverse reason or argument exception doubt; scruple. — Objec'tion able, a. Justly liable to objections. — Objective, -iv, a. Pert, to an object. (Metaph.) Pert, to, contained in, or being in the nature or position of, the object; outward external extrinsic, opp. to subjective. (Gram.) Pert, to, or designating, the case which follows a transitive verb or a preposition. — (Gram.) The objective case; the object gla of a microscope. (Mil.) The objective point. — Objective point. (Mil.) A point to which the operations of an army are directed. — Objectively, adv. In an objective manner; in the state of an object. — Object'ivene , — Objectivity, -tiv'T-tl, n. State of being, etc. — Objectle , a. Having no object; purposele . — Object'or, n. One who objects.