Oat

(ot). A cereal plant, Avena sativc, and A. oriental is, or its seed. Oats are used mainl as food for horses, although they are being largel used as food by man in the United States and otht countries. See Avena . O.-malt, malt made fror oats. O.-meal, the meal made from oats. Th proximate analysis of oat-meal gives fat, 7.74; starch 59.88; sugar, albumin insoluble in alcohol 15.66; albumin soluble in alcohol, 4.2 1; cellulose 2.05; mineral matter, 1. 94; moisture, 7.25. O.-m pyrosis, a condition of fermentative dyspepsia, at tended with acidity, related to the eating of oat-mea Ob-. A prefix signifying on, against, or towards.