Orphic 
living into Hades to bring back to life his wife 
Eurydice, and perished, torn to pieces by infuri- 
ated Thracian mrenads; Orphean: as, the Or/ilii<- 
poems. A considerable body of literature is extant bear- 
ing the name of Orpheus, but only a few fragments bear 
evidence of being as old as ">00 K c., most of it belonging 
to the Alexandrine school. In ancient Greece there were 
Orphic societies and Orphic mysteries, both connected 
with tile cult of Bacchus, and concerning themselves with 
the philosophy of life and death in nature. 
Language is a perpetual Orphic song. 
Slielley, Prometheus Unbound, iv. 1. 
Orphism (or'fizm), . [< Orph(ic) + -ism.] The 
mystical system of life and worship embodied 
in the Orphic poems and practised and incul- 
cated in the Orphic mysteries. See Orphic. 
This close connexion of Orphixm with the Eleusinian 
Mysteries. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 128. 
Orphize (or'fiz), v. i. ; pret. and pp. Orphized, 
fpr.Orpliizing. [< Orph(ic) + -ize.] Toconform 
to or resemble Orphic doctrines and worship. 
The Orphizing mystic cultus of Phyla. 
Encyc. Brit., XVII. 128. 
orphrey (or'fri), . [See or/rays.] 1. A kind 
of embroidery in gold. See orphrey-work. 
2. An ornamental band or border on certain 
ecclesiastical vestments, especially chasubles 
Cope with embroidered orpnreys and hood ; Italian, i6th century. 
a, a, orphreys. 
and copes, usually done in orphrey-work. The 
apparel of the amice, if done in orphrey-work, 
is sometimes called the orpltrey of the amice. 
See amicel, 2, chasuble, and cope 1 , 2. 
The orphreys [of the cope] were two bands, some eight 
inches in breadth, of another material than the cope it. 
self, and reaching all down from the neck on both sides in 
front, as the vestment shows itself on the wearer's person. 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 36. 
orphreyedt (or'frid), a. [< orphrey + -ed2.~\ 
Ornamented with embroidery or orphrey-work. 
orphrey-work (6r'fri-werk), n. Gold embroi- 
dery; hence, rich embroidery of any sort. 
orpiment (6r'pi-ment), . [< ME. orpiment, < 
OF. orpiment, F. orpiment = Pr. aurpigment, 
auripiment = Sp. oropimente = Pg. ouropimento 
= It. orpimento, < L. auripigmentum, orpiment, 
< aurum, gold, + pigmentum, pigment: see 
aurum, or 3 , &nA pigment.'] Arsenic trisulphid, 
AsoSa. It is found native, and also manufactured 
artificially. The native orpiment appears in soft, foliated 
masses, having a bright-yellow color and brilliant lus- 
ter. The orpiment, or king's yellow, of commerce is pre- 
pared by heating a mixture of arsenious oxid and sulphur, 
and is a mixture of arsenic sulphid and arsenious oxid. The 
with potash and lime to prepare a paste employed for re- 
moving the hair from skins. 
The flrste spirit quiksilver called is ; 
The second orpiment. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 270. 
orpine, orpin (6r'pin), n. [< ME. orpin, orpyn, 
orpine, orpyne, yellow arsenic, a kind of stone- 
crop^ OF. orpin, yellow arsenic, orpiment, also 
a kind of stonecrop (so called from its yellow 
flowers); an abbr. form of orpiment: see orpi- 
ment.'] 1. In painting, a yellow color of various 
degrees of intensity, approaching also to red. 
2. A succulent herbaceous plant, Sedum Tele- 
phium, common in gardens, native in the north- 
ern Old World, sometimes becoming wild in 
America. It has fleshy smooth leaves, and corymbs of 
numerous purple flowers. It was formerly, and to some 
extent is still, used as an astringent in dysentery, etc and 
as a vulnerary. From its tenacity of life, it is called liee- 
for-ever. 
Cool Violets, and Orpine growing still. 
Spenser, Muiopotmos, L 193. 
4160 
On the eve of this saint [St. John], as well as upon that 
of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, every man's door was shaded 
with green birch, lun<t fennel, Saint John's wort, orpin, 
white lillies, and the like, ornamented with garlandj "f 
beautiful flowers. 
Slow, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 4C3. 
Boy enough to crawl 
For latter orpine round the southern wall. 
Browtiiny, Sordello. 
Evergreen orpine. Same as iierb nf friendship (which 
see, under herb). 
orr (or), n. [Origin obscure.] A globular piece 
of wood used in playing at doddart. Halliwell. 
orra (or'a), a. [Also arrow, ora; origin uncer- 
tain. Ct. orrels.'] 1. Odd; not matched j not 
appropriated; left over; occasional; inciden- 
tal : as, an orra thing ; an orra time. 
Ae night at e'en a merry core 
O' randie, gangrel bodies 
In Poosie Nancy's held the splore, 
To drink their orra duddies. 
Burns, Jolly Beggars. 
2. Employed, as about a farm, for doing the 
odd jobs or work which the servants having 
regular and specified duties cannot overtake : 
as, an orra man. 3. Base; low; mean; worth- 
less : as, to keep orra company. [Scotch in all 
uses.] 
orrach, . See orach. 
orrels (or'elz), n. pi. [< OSw. urwal. refuse, Sw. 
urral, choice, selection, residue, < ur- (= AS. 
or-) + vala, choice : see wale' 2 '.'] What is left 
over; refuse. [Scotch.] 
orrery (or'e-ri), .; pi. orreries (-riz). [So called, 
by Sir Richard Steele, after the Earl of Orrery, 
for whom a copy of this machine was made by 
a workman, after an original borrowed from 
George Graham, who invented it.] A machine 
so constructed as to represent, by the move- 
ments of its parts, the motions and phases of 
the planets in their orbits. Similar machines 
are also called planetariums and cosmoscopes. 
orrice, n. See orris 2 . 
orris 1 (or'is), n. [Contr. of orfrays.'] If. A 
name given to laces of varied design in gold 
and silver. 
One Silver Orrice a quarter of a Yard deep ; A large Par- 
cel of Black and Silver Fringe ; One dark colour Cloth 
Gown and Petticoat with 2 Silver Orrices. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 167. 
2. Galloon and gimp used in upholstery. [Trade- 
n ame . ] Orris pattern, a peculiar pattern or design for 
gold lace. 
orris 2 (or'is), n. [Short for orris-root.'] A plant 
from which orris-root is obtained. Also orrice. 
orris-pea (or'is-pe), . A little ball of dried 
orris-root used to maintain the discharge of is- 
sues. See issue-pea. 
Orris-root (or'is-rot), n. [Prob. a corruption of 
iris-root.] The root of several European species 
of Iris, chiefly /. florentina. See Iris, 8 oil of 
orris-root. See oU. 
orseduet, orsedewt (6r'se-du), n. [< OF. or, 
gold, + sedue, pp. of seduire, mislead: see se- 
duce.] An inferior sort of leaf-metal made of 
copper and zinc, so as to resemble gold; Mann- 
heim gold; Dutch metal. 
Orseille (6r-sal'),. [F. : see orchil, archil.'] A 
peculiar coloring matter derived from Koccella 
tinctoria and other lichens, used in the prepa- 
ration of test-papers for chemical operations. 
See litmuK,and test-paper (raider paper). Tbeprin- 
ciples in those plants from which coloring matters are 
prepared are themselves colorless, but yield coloring sub- 
stances by reaction with water, air, and ammonia. They 
are generally acids, or acid anhydrids. U. S. Dispensatory. 
orseillin (6r-sa'lin), n. [< orseille + -in 2 .] A 
coal-tar color used in dyeing; the sodium-sul- 
phonate salt of beta-naphthol-azo-naphthalene. 
It yields a fast and full red, but is not very bril- 
liant. Also called roccellin, nibidin, rauracienne. 
orsellate (6r'sel-at), n. [< orsell(ic) + -ate 1 .] 
The generic name for any salt composed of or- 
sellic acid and a base: as, orsellate of baryta. 
orsellic (6r-sel'ik), a. [< orse(i)lle + -ic.~\ Same 
as lecanortc Orsellic acid. Same as orseille. 
ort (ort), n. [< ME. ort, < AS. as if *ortet (= 
MD. ooraete, ooreete = MLG. LG. ort), what is 
left after eating, < or-, out, + etan, eat: see 
or- and eat.] A fragment; a scrap; a piece of 
refuse : usually in the plural. 
Let him have time a beggar's arts to crave. 
Shak., Lucreee, 1. 985. 
Hang thee, thou parasite, thou son of crumbs 
And orts ! B. Jonson, New Inn, v. 1. 
I wouldn't give a fiddlestick's end for all the Constitu- 
tions in creation. They take the best of everything and 
leave us only the arts and hog-wash. 
S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 7. 
ort (ort), v. t. [< ort, .] To turn away from 
with disgust; refuse. [Scotch.] 
ortho-axis 
The lasses now-a-days ort nane o' God's creatures. 
Jamfeson. 
ortalant, ortalont, Obsolete variants of or- 
tolan. 
Ortalida (6r-tal'i-da), n. [NL.] Same as Or- 
ttl/ili. 1. 
Ortalidffi (6r-tal'i-de), n. pi. [NL. (Shuckard, 
1840), < Ortalis + -idle.'] A family of dipterous 
insects, typified by the genus Ortnlis. The front 
is bristly only above, the auxiliary vein ends acutely in the 
costa, the legs are not long, and the horny ovipositor is 
telescopic. It is a large and wide-spread group, whose 
members resemble the Trypetidce. Thirty-five genera oc- 
cur in North America. 
Ortalis (or'ta-lis), n. [NL., < Gr. bpra'/Jf, a young 
bird.] 1 . In "ornith., a genus of guans of the fam- 
ily Craeidte and the subfamily 1'enelopinte. The 
head is crested, with bare places on its sides and on the 
chin, but no wattles ; the tarsi are naked and seutellate 
before and behind; the wings are short, rounded, and 
concavo-convex ; the tail is very long and ample, fan- 
shaped, with twelve broad graduated feathers. The plu- 
mage is greenish. 0. vetula is a Mexican species, a variety 
of which occurs in Texas and is known as the Texan yuan, 
or chachalaca (which see). Usually called Ortalida, after 
Merrem, 1786. See cut under yuan. 
2. In entom., the typical genus of Ortalida', 
founded by Fallen in 1810, containing robust 
dark-colored flies found on the leaves of bushes 
vibrating their wings in the sunshine. 
Orthagoriscidse (fir'tha-go-ris'i-de), n. pi. 
[NL.,< OrtJiagoriscus + -ido:.] A family of gym- 
nodont fishes, named from the genus Orthago- 
riscus : same as Molidw. 
Orthagoriscini (or-tha-go-ri-sl'm), n. pi. [NL., 
< Orthagoriscus + -int.] In Bonaparte's sys- 
tem of classification, a subfamily of Molid<e 
with the skeleton entirely cartilaginous and 
the fins covered with continuous skin, repre- 
sented only by the genus KUHMHW. 
Orthagoriscus (6r"tha-go-ris'kus), n. [NL., < 
Gr. b/mayopianof, a sucking pig.] The typical ge- 
nus of Orthagoriscida; : same as Mola. Slocli 
and Schneider. Also Ortliogoriscus. 
Orthalicidse (6r-tha-lis'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Ortlialicus + -idee.] A family of geophilous 
pulmonate gastropods, typified by the genus 
Ortlialicus. They have a spiral turreted shell, posterior 
included mantle, a peculiarly modified jaw composed of 
a median triangular piece and lateral oblique imoricated 
plates adherent above but free below, and teeth differen- 
tiated. Two species of Orthalicus ate found in Florida, 
chiefly in wooded country. 
Orthalicus (or-thal'i-kus), . [NL. (Beck, 
1837).] The typical genus of the family Ortliu- 
licidce. 
orthaxial (6r-thak'si-al), . [< Gr. 6p6u(, 
straight, + L. axis, axis.] Haying a straight 
vertebral axis: applied to a primitive form of 
the vertebral axis in certain fishes, in which its 
posterior end is not bent upward or curved in 
any other direction. J. A. Ryder. 
Orthezia (or-the'zi-a), . [NL. (Amyot and 
Serville, 1843), syn. of Dorthezia, named after 
Dorthes, a French physician (1759-94).] A 
genus of hemipterous insects of the family 
Coccidai. The adult female insect, the form usually 
met with, is long and oval in shape, covered with a 
laminated white secretion, elongated behind and having 
a sac which contains the eggs. The antenna? are eight- 
jointed ; there are no tarsal digitules ; the genito-anal 
ring is enlarged and six-haired. One species has been 
recognized in the United States ; several others are Euro- 
pean. 
orthian (6r'thi-an), a. [< Gr. opBiof, straight 
up, high-pitched, < bp66f, straight, upright.] In 
anc. Gr. music, noting a melody or style in 
which many high tones were used. 
orthite (or'thit), n. [< Gr. bp66f, straight, + 
-ite 2 .] A variety of allanite. 
orthius (6r'thi-us), .; pi. orthii (-i). [< Gr. 
6p6io(: see def.] In anc. pros., a great foot, 
consisting of three tetrasemic longs, the first of 
which forms the arsis, while the other two con- 
stitute the thesis : thus, ^-* | ^* * . See 
semantws. 
ortho-. [L., etc., < Gr. bp8o-, combining form of 
bp06f, straight, upright, right, correct, etc.] An 
element in many words of Greek origin, its pres- 
ence bringing in the sense of 'straight,' 'up- 
right,' 'right,' 'correct.' Inchem., specifically (a) 
As a prefix of benzene derivatives it denotes a substitu- 
tion of hydrogen atoms in the benzene ring which are ad- 
jacent to each other, (fe) As applied to acids it notes those 
in which the number of hydroxyl groups present is equal 
to the number expressing the quantivalence of the ele- 
mentary radical, and applied to salts it notes those formed 
from ortho-acids. Where the ortho-acid has not been iso- 
lated, the acid in which the number of hydroxyl groups 
present is nearest to the number expressing the quantiva- 
lence of the elementary radical is sometimes called an 
ortho-acid. 
Ortho-axis (6r'tho-ak"sis), n. [< Gr. bp66<;, 
straight, + L. axis, axis.] Same as orthodiago- 
