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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A necromancer; a sorcerer.
  2. n. An abbreviation of objection, used in connection with sol, abbreviation of solution, in the margins of old books of divinity. Hence obs and sols, objections and solutions. See ob-and-soler.
  3. n. An abbreviation of the Latin obiit, he (or she) died: used in dates.
  4. n. A prefix in words of Latin origin, meaning ‘toward,’ ‘to,’ ‘against,’ etc., or ‘before,’ ‘near,’ ‘along by,’ but often merely intensive, and not definitely translatable. Its force is not felt in English, and it is not used in the formation of new words, except in a series of geometrical terms, applied to shape, especially in natural history, such terms being based upon oblate or oblong, and the prefix meaning ‘reversed’: as, obclavate, obcompressed, obconic, obcordate, oblanceolate, obimbricate, oboval, obovate, obovoid, obrotund, etc.
  5. An abbreviation
  6. of the Latin obiter, incidentally, by the way;
  7. of oboe.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic An objection.
  2. n. genetics The obese gene.
  3. n. historical A halfpenny.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea
  2. n. the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother

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  1. Abbreviations. (Wiktionary)

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  1. Rem
  2. Dem.
  3. DAT
  4. dis
  5. UV
  1. ter
  2. o'
  3. istuc
  4. eam
  5. tibi
  1. whar
  2. ITA
  3. illi
  4. mihi
  5. propter
  1. iam
  2. virtutem
  3. maxime
  4. hodie
  5. ef
  1. ipse
  2. illud
  3. ego
  4. tum
  5. istaec
  1. verum
  2. common-mode
  3. sub-
  4. pro-

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. of
  2. obs-and-sols
  3. oc
  4. OP
  1. ob-
  2. ob
  3. Surgut
  4. Vogul
  1. Ob
  2. Novosibirsk
  3. Nizhnevartovsk
  4. Irtysh
  1. Barnaul
  2. Chulym
  3. one-valued function
  4. irtish
  1. irtish river
  2. irtysh river
  3. ob river
  4. æt

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  1. oed2
  1. prep acc
  1. for or on account of

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  • the_reckoner Ob is a short form used for Obviously. It can also be used as a substitute for 'Yes' and for any other such affirmations. Jun 9, 2009

  • mollusque A halfpenny; a wizard; obituary; an objection made during a debate; dialect form of "of". Dec 8, 2007

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