ormer (ormer)

[F. ormier, an ormer, earshell, sea-ear, IMG:content-1851.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1852.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1853.jpg:[blocks in formation] They that goo about to bye an yerthen potte or ve ell for an orkyn dooe knocke vpon it with their knuccle. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 91. A Middle English form of orloge , from the characteristic yellow color of the pluorlaget, n. mage. The Oriolidæ are almost exclusively a tropical horology. family of Old World birds, related to the crows. They orle (ôrl), n. Ethiopian regions, only one occurring Europe. There especially numerous in the Oriental, Australian, and are about 40 species, of several genera besides Oriolus. The family is divisible into two subfamilies, Oriolinæ and Ptilo norhynchinæ, or orioles proper and bower-birds.