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pl. [OAT.] ob-, pref . [Latin.) A common prefix, used to denote such meanings as, about, against, at, toward, before, upon, over, near, over-against, . It sometimes has only an intensive force, and occasionally is used to denote inversion, or position at the back, as obovate=inversely ovate; occiput= the back of the head. Ob- becomes oc- before words beginning with c, as occur; of before f , as offer; and on- before p , as oppose. *(1) Ob - and - sol : An abbreviation of Objection and Solution, used in the margins of books. "A vast ocean of obs and sols."-Burton: Anat. of Melancholy ( To the Reader ), p. 70. *(2) Ob - and -soler, Ob-and-soller: A scholastic disputant; a controversialist, a polemic. ob-cor'-date, a . [Pref. ob- , and English cordate Bot.: Inversely cordate; shaped like a heart, with the apex downward. *ob-dor-mi-tion, s. [Lat. obdormio to sleep, from ob- , and dormio to sleep.] A sleeping soundly; a sound sleep. "A peaceable obdormition in thy bed of ease and honor." -Bp. Hall: Contemplations , bk. iv. *õb-dūçe', v . t. [Lat.obduco, from ob- , and duco =to lead.] To draw over as a covering. "A cortex that is obduced over the cutis."-Hale: Orig. of Mankind, p. 65. *õb-duct', v . t. [Lat. obductus , pa. par. of obduco to obduce (q. v.).] To draw over; to obduce. ( Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. iv., ch. v.) *ob-duc-tion, s. [Lat. obductio , from obductus , pa. par. of obduco =to draw over, to obduce (q. v.).] The act of covering, or drawing over as a covering.