oomiak

[Native name.] A long, broad boat, used by the Esquimaux for conveying women, children, and property during their excursions in the summer season. It is furnished with seats, and Oomiak. propelled by means of oars, somewhat resembling a baker's peel. One, twenty-five feet by eight, and containing twenty-one women and children, visited the Fury and Hecla during Parry's expedition for the discovery of a northwest pa age, 1821-23. (Capt. G. F. Lyon: Private Journal , ch. ii.) *oones, adv . [A. S. dnes.] Once. (Chaucer: Per sones Tale .) ō-o-nin, s. [ALBUMIN.] ôop, v. t. [Etym. doubtful.] To bind with thread; hence, to join, to unite. ( Scotch.) ôo'-păk, s. [Chinese.] A variety of black tea. ō-ô-pho-rid-i-um, s. [Pref. oo-, and Gr. phoros = bearing.] Bot .: The larger form of spore case in Selaginella. ō-ô-pho-ri-tis, s. [Pref. oö- , and Gr. phoros = bearing, and suff. -it is (q. v.).] Pathol: Inflammation of the ovary. [OVARITIS.] oô-riě, ôu-riě, a. [Icel. úrigr =wet, from úr = drizzling rain.] 1. Chill, cold, shivering. 2. Sad-like; bleak, dismal, melancholy. ( Scotch .) ôos-ite, s . (From the Oos Valley, Baden, where found; suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min.: A mineral having a composition related to those of the Pinite group (q. v.). It occurs in six or twelve-sized prisms, in a so-called pinite-porphyry (q. v.), and is probably a pseudomorph after dichroite (q. v.).