Otus 
conspicuous horns, car-lulls, or plumicorns; 
the r.-nv.l <>\\ls. The common long-eared owl of Eu- 
rope Is <>. rulgarit; that of North America is 0. teilno- 

Aniurican Long-eared Owl (Otut 
niiiHiu. There are many other species. The limits of 
the genus vary. The short-eared species of ' " " are often 
placed itt a different genus, Brachyotut. The genus Is 
also called Ann. 
2f. In en turn., a genus of sphinxes or hawk- 
moths, founded by Httbner in 1816. 3f. In 
conch., a genus of gastropods. Sixso, 1826. 
4f. In Crustacea, a genus of amphipods. C. 
Spence Bate, 1862. 
ouabe-oil (6-ii'be-oil), . A fixed oil valuable 
for lubricating, extracted from the Jamaica 
cobnut, Omphalea triandra. 
OUbit (6 'bit), n. [Also oubat, oitbut, oobit, 
ooiebet, rowbet, wobat, tcobart, woubit, etc. : said 
to be ult. < AS. wibba, an insect (se glisigenda 
icibba, 'the glistening insect,' the glow-worm). J 
A caterpillar of the tiger-moth : generally with 
the qualifying term hairy. See palmer-worm. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
oubliette (o-bli-ef), . [F., < outlier, forget, < 
L. oblivisci, forget: see oblivion."] 1. A secret 
dungeon with an open- 
ing only at the top for the 
admission of air, used 
for persons condemned 
to perpetual imprison- 
ment or to perish secret- 
ly, such as exist in some 
old castles or other build- 
ings. 
The place was utterly dark, 
the oubliette, I suppose, of the 
accursed convent. Scott. 
2. A secret pit, usually 
in the floor of a dungeon 
or a dark passage, into 
which a person could be 
precipitated and thus be 
destroyed unawares. Ou- 
bliettes of this form occur In 
medieval castles, though they 
were much less common than 
has been popularly believed. 
And deeper still the deep- 
down tntbliftte, 
Down thirty feet below the 
smiling day. 
Tennyeon, Harold, II. 2. 
Oubliettes are common In old 
eastern houses, as In the me- 
dieval castles of Europe, and 
many a stranger has met his 
death in I hem. They are often 
so well concealed that even the 
modern inmates are not aware 
of their existence. 
R. F. Burton, tr. of Arabian 
[Nights, III. 327, note. 
Diet. 
vioiiet-ie-Duc's 
I'Architecture.") 
C, upper dungeon, with win- 
_ , dow, Di E, lower dungeon, 
OUCh 1 (OUCh), n. [< ME. with access from C by the trap- 
a t'nmi nf nnui-li door A ! G - oub "". '"> 
a 1C ItOUtn. wn j c h a victim could be pre- 
tO misdivisiOU Of a clpitated from Cat E through 
nouch as an ouch: 
as an ouch: see bo 
wouc/i.] 1. An ornament f^gf" walli A n upper 
or jewel of the nature of 
a brooch or clasp ; any jewel or ornament; spe- 
cifically, a clasp used for a cope in place of the 
agraffe. Its use in the English Old Testament 
seems to be restricted to ' setting,' or ' socket.' 
Also owclir. 
An ouche of gold. 
Chaucer, ProL to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 743. 
They wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold. 
Ex. xxxlx. 6. 
Why did Vulcan make this excellent Ouch? to give 
Hcrmione Cadmus' wife. Burton. Anat. of Mel., p. 521. 
1177 
I am got deep Into the Sidney Papers ; there are old 
wills full of bequeathed nvrhe* and goblets with fair 
enamel. Walpult, Letters, II. 23. 
sin- liruuKlit him a very pretty fortune in chains, ou-chff, 
and .Saracen ear-rings. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, 1. 97. 
2f. The blow given by a boar's tusk. ///. 
liii-t. 3f. A tumor or boil on the skin; a i-iir- 
Up start as many aches hi 's bones as there are ouchet 
In his skin. Chapman, Widow's Tears, I. 
ouch 2 (ouch), intrrj. [Also outch: a mere ex- 
clamation ; cf . ow.~] An exclamation express- 
ing pain, as when one is suddenly hurt, as by a 
slight burn, a prick of a pin, ete. [Colloq.J 
ouchert, . [< ourh 1 + -!.] An artist who 
made ouches. 
Oiccheri, skynners, and cutlers. 
Cock LoreUet Bole. (Xarrt.) 
oudenarde (8-de-nUrd'), . [Named from iiu- 
iliniirili, >\ town in East Flanders, Belgium, 
where this tapestry was formerly manufac- 
tured.] Decorative tapestry of which the 
chief subject is foliage, as landscapes with 
trees. 
Oudenodon (8-den'o-don), w. fNL., < Gr. oMfi'r 
(ov6ev-), no one, none (< oMi eif, not one: oiiii, 
but not, and not, not; eif, one), + odoi'C (bfovr-) 
= E. tmith.] A genus of extinct cryptodont 
reptiles with apparently toothless jaws and 
short confluent premaxmaries, based upon re- 
mains found in the argillaceous limestone of 
South Africa. By Owen it is associated with Rhyncho- 
taurut In a family Cryptodontia (or Cryptodontida) of the 
order Anomodontia. It Is now made type of a separate 
family Oudenodontidae. It was named by Bain in 1866. 
oudenodont (8-den'o-dont), a. Of or pertaining 
to the genus Oudenodon or the family Oudeno- 
doutid(F. 
Oudenodontidae (8-den-o-don'ti-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < Oudenodon(t-) -t-'-ute.] A family of 
fossil reptiles, represented by the genus Ouden- 
odon. 
oughnet, A Middle English variant of own 1 . 
ought 1 (6t), . and adv. Same as aught 1 . Com- 
pare naught, nought. 
ought 2 (ot), v., pret. and auxiliary. [< ME. 
ought, oughte, ouhte, aught, aughte, augte, ahte, 
agte, < AS. ahte, pret. of agan (pres. ah), owe, 
have: see owe 1 .] If. Owned; the preterit of 
the verb owe 1 , to possess, own. See owe 1 . 
Be got from the improvident Pesants the Castle of i.l 
kisse, . . . and the Castle of Banies from the Sheek that 
ought it, by a wile. Sandyt, Travailes, p. 165. 
He that ought the cow, goes nearest her tall. [Scotch 
proverb.) Ray, Proverbs (1078), p. 876. 
2t. Owed ; the preterit and past participle of 
the verb owe 1 , to be indebted or obliged. 
As Fortune hire oughte a foule meschaance, 
She wex enamoured upon this man. 
Chaucer, Good Women, I. 1609. 
This was but duty ; 
She did it for her husband, and she ought it. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, III. 3. 
Your brother had much money of me out of the 400 
I had of him, beside what he ought to your sister Mary. 
WiiMnip, Hist. New England, I. 449. 
3. To be held or bound in duty or moral obli- 
gation. 
And so attc the begynnyng a man aught to lerne his 
doughters with good ensaumples. 
Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry, p. 2. 
Thou oughtett therefore to have put my money to the 
exchangers. Mat xxv. 27. 
We do not what we ought, 
What we mtght not we do. 
M . Arnold, Empedocles on Etna. 
What I ought to do must be something that I can do. 
a. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 4. 
4. To be fit or expedient in a moral view; be 
a natural or expected consequence, result, ef- 
fect, etc. 
My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 
Jas. ill. 10. 
All that 's good hi nature might 
To be communicable. 
Shirley, Love in a Maze, 111. 1. 
The envious man Is in pain upon all occasions which 
ought to give him pleasure. Steele, Spectator, No. 19. 
Against irreligion, against secularity, Art, Science, and 
Christianity are or might to be anlted. 
./. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 121. 
5. To be necessary or advisable; behoove. 
So wise a man as ye be might not soche thlnge to vndir- 
take to put hym-sclf in a-uentnre of deth for covetlse of 
loude, ne other auolr. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), U. 866. 
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to 
enter into his glory ? Luke xxlv. 26. 
Both in partridge-shooting and in grouse-shooting one 
bird only ought to be singled out and shot at 
Encyc. Brit., XXI. 8S4. 
ounce 
6. Tobclit: used impersonally. 
u , | rntghte as werche and ydelnes wlthctonde. 
Chauctr, Second Nun's Tale, L 14. 
Syn. 3-6. Ought, Should. Ought It the stronger, ex- 
pressing especially obligation!! of duty, with some weaker 
use In expreeHing interest or necessity : as, you ought to 
know, if any one does. Should sometimes expresses duty : 
as, we should be careful (if other*' feelings; but generally 
expresses propn. -ij, > xgnidlency, etc.: as, we mould dot 
our t"s and cross our t'. 
OUght : H, a. |Srrf//ii' ;< .] Possession : same as 
it Hi/Ill'^. 
I am as weel worth looking at an ony book In your ought. 
Heart of Mld-Lothlan, xrl. 
OUght 4 (6t), . [A corruption of / 
Nought; a cipher. [Vulgar.] 
"Three score and ten," said Chuffey, " aught and carry 
seven. Some men are *o strong that they live to four 
score four times ought 's an ought, four times two ' an 
eight eighty." Dickent, Martin Chuzzlewlt, xlx. 
oughtent, < . Plural of ought 2 . Chaucer. 
OUghtlingS (6t'lingz), adv. [< oitghtl + -ling?.] 
Anything; in the least; in any degree. [Scotch.] 
Does Tarn the Rhymer spac oughtlingi of this? 
Or do ye prophesy Just aa ye wish '/ Ramtay. 
The hizzies, U they're aughtlint fawsont, 
Let them In Drury-lane be lesson 'd ! 
Burnt, Address of Beelzelmli. 
oughtness (6t'nes), H. The state of being as it, 
ought to be; Tightness. [Rare.] 
In this clear and full sense, oughtnem or duty Is a com- 
paratively recent notion, foreign to the classical period of 
Greek ethics. W. R. Sorley, Ethics of Naturalism, p. 7. 
OUghwheret, adr. See oichere. 
ouglyt, a. An obsolete form of ugly. 
oulachon(o'la-kon),n. S&me &s eulachon . C.il. 
Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 91. 
ouldernest, ouldernesset, n. See the quota- 
tion. 
Ouldernet, a klnde of very coarse cannas which Taller* 
vse to stiffen doublets : so called because much thereof 
vsually commeth from the Hand Ouldernet [Uoldernea]. 
VI. Poule-dauiet. Miatheu. 
OUleH, n. A Middle English form 
OUle 2 t, w. A Middle English form of awl. 
oule 3 t, An obsolete form of howl. Levin*. 
oulo-. See ulo-. 
oulong, . See oolong. 
oulopholite (o-lof 'o-lit), n. [< Or. TO/DC, woolly, 
woolen, + <j>u)^6f, a cave, + AiOof, stone.] A 
local name for certain curved or twisted forms 
assumed by gypsum occurring in the Mammoth 
Cave, KentucKy. 
oulorrhagy (6-lor'a-ji), n. [< Gr. oW.ov, in pi. 
ovto, the gums, + -payia, < 'piiyvi-vai, break.] In 
med., bleeding or hemorrhage from the gums. 
Also ulorrhagia. 
oumbert, ouinbreret. See umber?, umbriere. 
oumpert, . An obsolete form of umpire. 
ounce 1 (ouns), n. [< ME. ounce, unce = D. ona, 
< OF. unce, once, F. once = Sp. onaa = It. oncin 
= OHG. un:a, MHG. G. time = Sw. uns Dan. 
unze, wise = Goth, unlya =Gr. oiijw'o, ounce, < L. 
undo, the twelfth part of a pound or of a foot, 
an ounce, an inch: see inch 1 , from the same 
source.] 1. A weight, the twelfth part of a 
pound troy, and the sixteenth of a pound avoir- 
dupois. In troy weight the ounce Is 20 pennyweights, 
each of 24 grains, the ounce being therefore 480 grains ; In 
avoirdupois weight the ounce is equal to 437} grains. The 
ounce was originally the Roman duodecimal subdivision 
of the pound. In modern systems it is generally a twelfth 
or sixteenth of a pound. Abbreviated oz. 
2*. A small quantity. 
By ouncet henge hise lokkes that he hadde. 
Chaucer, Gen. ProL to C. T., L 677. 
3. In California, in the earlier years of the 
gold excitement, a Spanish double donhloon. 
or about sixteen dollars ; the old doubloon onza 
of Spain. 
The last lot of quinine . . . had sold for four miner* 
(sixty-four dollars) an ounce at auction. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 21. 
Fluid ounce (also/tidon, a form very common In med- 
ical use), a measure of capacity; a wlnrglassfiil. In the 
United Kingdom it contains one avoirdupois ounce or 
4S7.r> grains of distilled water at 62* Knhr. , weighed against 
brass weights In air at a pressure of .10 Inches (at London), 
and at a temperature of M) Fahr. In the United States 
the fluid ounce is declared by Act of Congress of July 27, 
1866, to be the 128th part of a gallon that Is, it contains 
456.033 grains of distilled water at Its maximum density, 
weighed In air at a pressure of 30 inches (presumably at 
the Const Survey Office in Washington), ana at a temper- 
ature of 62' Fahr. The British fluid ounce Is equal to 28.4 
cubic centimeters, and that of the United States to 29.57 
cubic centimeters. 
ounce 2 (ouns), n. [Formerly also once; < F. 
once = Sp. onza = Pg. of = It. onza, now 
/. (appar. with attraction of the def. art.) ; 
NL. uncia ; perhaps ult. < Pers. iju;, a panther, 
pard, lynx. The word has been referred, in 
view of the It. form lonza, to L. lynx, Gr. 
