oar, oarie

[Eng.oar; -y.] Resembling an oar or oars; having the form or use of an oar. oary-footed, a. Web-footed. "Who never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary - footed kind."- Brit . Quart. Review , lvii. 410. *õaşe, s . [OSIER.] Osiers. "With oase, with boughs and bushes." Sylvester: Han die crafts , 367. ō-ā-sis ( pl . ō-ā-sēs), s. (Lat., from Gr. oasis , an animal. II. Technically : 1. Brewing : A blade or paddle with which mash is stirred in the tun. 2. Naut .: An instrument for rowing; a long paddle or piece of timber, round at one end, to suit the hand, and flattened at the other, used to propel a boat, barge, ., through the water. An oar is frequently used for steering; in which case it is sometimes an ordinary oar shipped in a swiveled fork at the stern, as in whale-boats; or it may be a broad paddle attached to a long arm, working on a swivel near its center, as is often the case in keelboats, scows, . A long oar, used occasionally to a ist a ve el in a calm, is a sweep, and is operated by two or more men. Small oars are sculls; one rower using one on each side, sitting mid length of the thwart. A rigged oar is one in which the oar is pivoted to the gunwale and moved by a rod, or by a rower sitting abaft it, so that he may face forward. 1. To boat oars: To cease rowing and lay the oars in the boat. 2. To lie on the oars: (1) Lit .: To raise them from the water and hold them horizontally. (2) Fig .: To cease from work; to rest. 3. To put one's oar in: To interfere in the affairs of others; to meddle officiously. 4. To ship oars: To place them in the rowlocks, or between the thole-pins, ready for use. 5. To to the oars : To raise them vertically, rest ing on the handles. It is a form of salute. 6. To unship the oars: To take them out of the rowlocks. oar-fish, s. Ichthy.: Regalecus banksii ; known also as the Ribbon-fish. (REGALECUS.] oar-footed, a. Having feet like oars. Oar - footed Crustaceans: Zoology: The Copepod a (q. v.). The animal figured is the female of Cyclops quadric ornis, the water. flea, highly magnified. "The Copepod a, or footed Crustaceans, are all of small size." - Nicholson : Zool ogy (1878), p. 278. Oar