4174 
The Captain told them, that for his own part he durst 
there live with fewer men than they were ; yet ... they 
were otherways minded. 
Good News from New England, in Appendix to 
[New England's Memorial, p. 373. 
It appeared she was otheru-ays furnished before : she 
would none. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
Liv. This gentleman 
Is well resolv'd now. 
Guar. I was never otherways. 
Middleton, Women Beware Women, iv. 2. 
otherwhere (uTH'er-hwar), adv. In some other 
place ; elsewhere. 
Where were ye borne? Some say in Crete by name, 
Others in Thebes, and others other-where. 
Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 53. 
The first equiuocation we reade of, otherwhere plainly 
teamed a lye. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 25. 
other 
Of all Others, apart from, distinguished from, or to the 
exclusion of, all that remain. 
Insolence is the crime of all others which every man is 
apt to rail at. Steele, Spectator, 1,0. 294. 
Other 1 (uTH'er), adv. [< ME. other; < other*, 
a.] Otherwise. 
Whan he wiste it may noon other be, 
He paciently took his adversitee. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 839. 
No doubt he 's noble ; 
He had a black mouth that said other of him. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 3. 68. 
other 2 ! (uTH'er), a. sm&pron. [ME., also outlier, 
oictlter; a var. of either, q. v.] Same as either. 
Chaucer. 
If thaire men on owttur side 
Come forto help tham in that tide, 
Thay suld be cut for thaire iornay, 
Thaire armes and thaire legges oway. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 125. 
Bote the bark of that on semede dimmore 
Then outher of the other two. 
Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 184. 
other 2 t, conj. [ME., also outher, etc. ; a var. of 
either, and the fuller form of or* : see either and 
or 1 .] Same as either and or*. 
Ne hadde god suffred of som other than hym-selue, 
He hadde nat wist wyterly whether deth wer soure other 
sweyte. Piers Plowman (C), xxi. 219. 
If thu were aliue, 
With swerd other with kniue, 
We scholden alle deie 
And thi fader deth abeie. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), L 110. 
Comaunded hem to bringe hym a-gein other be force, or 
be otherwise. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 522. 
othergatest (uTH'er-gats), adv. [< other* + 
gate 2 . CL another-gates.] In other way s ; other- 
wise. --. -- 
If he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you Otherwhiles (uTH'er-hwilz), ffld. 
othergates than he did. Shak., T. N., v. 1. 198. Chyles; adv. gen. of otherwhile.] Same as Ot/ier- 
[See othergates, 
sacred Scripture. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 13. 
The main body of this truth I have otherwhere repre- 
* r m ,_.. TIT 1 / 1 100C\ T (1AK 
sented. 
otic 
Otherwise an ill Angell commcth and causeth bralles and 
diseases. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 200. 
2f. On the other hand. 
A skilful artificer male sone put the vain sophister to 
silence. . . . Whereas otherwise an argumente made by 
the rules of logique cannot bee avoided. 
Wilson, Rule of Reason. 
Otherwise (uTH'er-w5z), a. [Prop, the adv. 
otherwise in predicate.] Different; of a differ- 
ent kind or character. 
If it prove 
She 's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where 
I lodge my wife. Shak., W. T., ii. 1. 134. 
He prayed God to forgive him, and made vows that if 
the Lord spared his life he would become otherwise. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 121. 
Other-world (uTH'er-werld), a. [< other world: 
see under other*, a.] Pertaining to or charac- 
teristic of a different sphere of existence ; ex- 
tramundane ; unearthly; belonging or relating 
to the future life. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 905. therworldlineSS (uTH'er-werld"li-nes), n. 1 . 
The character of being otherworldly ; a disposi- 
tion to act in this life with reference to another 
or future world ; conduct of life prompted by a 
hope of heaven. 
And yet not religion conceived as an affair of the pri- 
vate conscience, not the yearning and the search for the 
pearl of great price, not an increased predominance of 
otherworldliness, but the instinct of national freedom, 
and the determination to have nothing in religion that 
should impair it. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 764. 
2. Reference to or insistence upon the exis- 
tence of another world beyond the present ; 
Sir G..Bi*, Hist. Rich. III., m. ide8 iity; spirituality; the quality of being 
But the Gods went not now, as otherwhile, 
Into the tilt-yard where the Heroes fought 
a. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
One hath had the vision face to face, 
And now his chair desires him here in vain, 
However they may crown him otherwhere. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
Otherwhile (uTH'er-hwil), adv. [< ME. other- 
whyle, otherquyle; < other* + while.] 1. At other 
times; formerly; erst. 
Bothe wyth bulleg & bereg, & boreg otherquyle, 
& etayneg, that hym a-nelede, of the hege felle. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.X 1. 723. 
Sometimes he was taken forth ... to be set in the pil- 
lory, otherwhile in the stocks. 
2. Sometimes; at one time . . . at another time. 
otiitji gittesT v ut ^ er-gats), . L^^V w.w. y ..~w, 
adv., and another-gates.] Different; of another 
sort or kind; other. 
If you were in my mistress's chamber, yon should find 
otheraates privy signs of love hanging out there. 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, ii. 1. 
All which are the great works of true, able, and authori- 
tative Ministers, requiring othergates workmen than are 
(now) in many places much in fashion among common 
people. 
Bp. Ganden, Tears of the Church, Pref., p. 19. (Dames.) 
otherguess (uin'er-ges), a. A corruption of 
othergates. Compare another-guess. 
If your kinsman, Lieutenant Bowling, had been here, 
we should have had other-guess work. 
Smollett, Roderick Random, xxxii. 
This world contains otherguess sorrows than yours. 
C. Reade. 
Otherguise (uTH'er-giz), a. [A further corrup- 
tion of otherguess, simulating guise. Cf. an- 
other-guise.] Same as otherguess. Ash. 
Otherlyt, adv. [ME. (compar. otherloTccr); < other 
+ -ly ] Otherwise. 
And gif he other-loker doth, be in the kynges mercy, as 
many tyme as the baylyues hem mowe of take. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 355. 
otherness (uTH'er-nes), n. [< other* + -ness.] 
The state or quality of being other; alterity. 
A sublime aspiration after the otherness of things is sub- 
limely irrational. To know things as they are to us is 
all we need to know, all that is possible to be known. 
G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. i. 26. 
Nor is nature to be confounded with created substance, 
or with matter as it exists in space and time ; it is pure 
non-being, the mere otherness, alteritas, of God his 
shadow, desire, want, or desiderium sui, as it is called by 
mystical writers. Adamson, Encyc. Brit., III. 174. 
Othersomet, pron. [ME. othersome, prop, other 
some, some (one) other, or some others: see 
other* and some, a.] Some other or others. 
Some blasfemede hym and saide, fy one hym that dis- 
troyes ; and othersome saide, othire mene saved he, hot 
hymselfe he may nott helpe. 
MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, f. 183. (HalKwell.) 
There were at that time manie noblemen in England 
whose wyues and daughters the king hadde oppressed ; 
and othersome whom with extreme exactions he had 
brought into great pouertie ; and othersome whose parents 
and friends the king hadde banished. 
Stow, K. John, an. 1212. 
Some of these Tabernacles may quickely be taken asun- 
der, and set together againe. . . . Other some cannot be 
taken insunder. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 54. 
otherward, otherwards (uTH'er-ward,-wardz), 
adv. [< other* + -ward, -wards.] In another 
direction. Carlyle. 
Otherways (ura'er-waz), adv. [< ME. other- 
waies, otherweys; < other + 
wise.] Otherwise. 
He asked the barons in that parlement. 
If he schewed a thing othenvaies he ment. 
visionary. 
Its [the church's] other-worldliness, while upholding an 
ideal before men's eyes, had the disadvantage of discred- 
itlng the real G . #. LmeS: H ist. Philos., II. 5. 
erworldly ( U TH'er-werld"li), a. Governed 
^|ft u y moti yes relating to the consider- 
ation of existence in another and better world. 
while. 
Thursdaye we hadde otherwhylesc&lmesstaA otherwhyles 
metoly good wynde. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 72. 
Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts, . . . 
Faintly beseige us. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., 1. 2. 7. 
Otherwise (uTH'er-wiz), adv. [< ME. otherwise, 
otherwise; short for in other wise: see other* Othman(oth'man),a. andn. [< Turk. 'Othman : 
and wise 2 .] 
differently. 
But . . we perceive with great clearness that the origi- 
nal Judaic religion, though it had supernaturalism, . . . 
instead of being monkish, otherieorldly, and immutable, 
was social, political, and historical. 
J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 244. 
1. In a different manner or way; 
Ne thei don to no man other wise than thei wolde that 
other men diden to hem ; and in this poynt thei fulleflllen 
"see Ottoman*, Osnianli.] Same as Ottoman*. 
Iskander, the pride and boast 
Of that mighty Othman host. 
Longfellow, Wayside Inn, Spanish Jew's Second Tale. 
ofAvle^roScrss; 80 ' "ZiS^-SSSS.^ Othmanee (oth'man-e), a. _[< Turk. Othmani: 
Candy is called otherwyse Crete. There be ryght euyll 
people. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 13. 
When I seriously salute thee, I begin my Letter with one 
God ; when otherwise, with many. Howett, Letters, ii. 11. Othniidffl (oth-ni'i-de), n.pl. [NL.,< Othmus + 
Walpole governed by corruption because, in his time, -ifae.] A family of neteromerous Coleoptera, 
it was impossible to govern otherwise. tvt>ified bv the genus Othnius. They have the an- 
Uacaulay, Horace Walpole. ^ coxal Cities closed Denind , the tarsal claws simple, 
The stones composing a house cannot be otherwise used tne ve ntral segments five, free, and the anterior coxa? small. 
until the house has been pulled down. _ OthmUS (oth-ni'us), . [NL., < Gr. btiveioe, 
strange, foreign.] The typical genus of Oth- 
Le Conte, 1861. 
see Ottoman*.] Ottoman; Turkish. 
Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces. 
T. B. Aldrich, When the Sultan goes to Ispahan. 
thniidse (oth-ni'i-de), n. pi. [NL 
id (e ,] A family of heteromerou 
tvrjified bv the genus Othnius. They have the an- 
^ coxal Cities closed benindj the tarsal c 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 444. 
2. By other means; from other causes ; on other 
terms. 
Well ought ye be reson a grete mater to bringe to ende 
be so that ye be of oon acorde, and of oon will, ffor other- 
wise may ye not spede. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 581. 
Sir John Norms failed in the attempt of Lisbon, and re- 
turned with the loss, by sickness and otherwise, of 8000 
men. Raleigh, 
By negotiation and otherwise he secured the alliance and 
the interests of the various Italian governments on his side. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 15. 
3. In other respects; under other circum- 
stances ; in a different case. 
It is said truly that the best men otherwise are not always 
the best in regard of society. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Such stories, which . . . are . . . consigned by the re- 
port of persons otherwise pious and prudent. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 371. 
The feebleness of age in a man of this turn has some- 
thing which should be treated with respect even in a man 
no otherwise venerable. Steele, Spectator, No. 386. 
niida. , 
Othonna (o-thon'a), n. [NL. (Linnseus, 1737), 
< L. othonna, < Or. 6Bovva, a Syrian composite 
plant.] A genus of plants of the order Com- 
posite and the tribe Senecionidece, type of the 
subtribe Othonneai, and known by its steriledisk- 
flowers and copious pappus. There are about 80 
species, natives of South Africa. They are smooth shrubs 
or herbs with small heads of yellow flowers and alternate 
or radical leaves, either undivided or dissected, and often 
fleshy. Their similarity to Senecio gives them the name 
of (African) ragwort. One of the few deserving culture 
is 0. crassifolia,* trailing herb with fleshy leaves and 
bright-yellow flowers, suitable for baskets, rustic work, 
etc. 
Otiationt (6-shi-a'shon), n. [< L. as if *otia- 
tio(n-), < otiari, idle" about, take one's ease, < 
otium, ease: see otiose.] Same as otiosity. 
Or as I haue obserued [others] in many of the Princes 
Courts of Italic to seeme idle when they be earnestly oc- 
cupied, & entend to nothing but mischieuous practizes, 
and do busily negotiat by coulor of otiation. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 252. 
If the lighthouse-keeper happens to have plenty of oil, 
and is not out shooting or fishing, he lights his lamp ; 
otherwise, he omits to perform this rather important part O 4;i a +. r j cs (6-ti-at'riks), n. [< Gr. oi'f (ur-), ear, 
LadyBrassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. v. ?*g^ j of Baling, medical: see iatric.] 
of his duties. 
Or Otherwise, in law, when used as a general phrase fol 
lowing an enumeration of particulars, is commonly inter- 
Aural therapeutics. 
lowing an enumeration 01 particulars, is commoiuy iiiira -- ~2.~, , * r i, .. / n_ > / tl,o 
preted in a restricted sense, as referring to such other otlC (o'tik), a. [= F. oUque,< Gr. oof, of the 
matters as are kindred to the classes before mentioned. ear, < ovf (UT-), ear : see ear*.] Ot or pertain- 
Rather . . . than otherwise, rather one thing than an- j ne to the ear or organ of hearing; auditory; 
other and contrarv thine: rather than not acoustic. -OtlC (or periotic) bones, those bones which 
result from the ossification of the cartilaginous otic or 
periotic capsule, and constitute, when coalesced, the ofo- 
crane, or skull of the ear; the compound petrosal or 
petromastoid bone, corresponding to the petrous and mas- 
told parts of the temporal bone in man. The otic bones are 
other and contrary thing ; rather than not. 
A born and bred lady as keeper of the place would be 
rather a catch than otherwise. Dickens, Hard Times, i. 16. 
Not that he cared about P. being snubbed that he 
rather enjoyed than otheru'ise. 
S. B. Eimball, Was he Successful?, iv. 
ways, after other- otherwise (uTH'er-wiz),eojy. [< otherwise,adv.] 
1 . Else ; but for the reason indicated. 
I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath stolen, 
otherwise he had been executed. 
Rob. of Bntnne, p. 4. 
. 
Shak., T. Q. of V., iv. 4. 34. 
See these' words, and periotic; also cuts under acrodont 
and Esox. Otic capsule, the otic bones collectively ; the 
otocrane, especially in its early or formative stage. Otic 
ganglion. See ganglion. 
