ovule 
3. Some small body like or likened to an ovule : ^ under diphytooid, gastrulation, gonophvre, and < 
as, an orule of Naboth. See ovulum. Ascend- 2 [can.] In conch., same as Ovulum. Martini, 
ing ovule. See ascending. 17743. [cap.] In ichth., a genus of fishes. 
Ovulidse (o-vu'li-de), . pi. [NL., < Oriiluu i -f B/o< , fe flnd &. 1801.-4. In arc*., an or- 
-idce.] A family of gastropods, typih >ythe namentinthe shape of anegg.-Epnlppialovum. 
genusO(m; theegg-shellsandslmttle-sliells. g ep liiimial.-Ova, Graaflana, Graaflan follicles. See 
.. ._ _i tf^A ...itti tlin (i/MirrJoa r'tliffiVlflfP 
The family is often united witli the cowries, Oypraida. 
e 
ovum-cycle (6'vum-si"kl), . An ovum-pro- 
resembles a weaver's shuttle. Also rarely called Amphi- 
peratMce. Also Onilina, as a subfamily of Cyprceida. bee 
cut under onttlum. 
OVUliferoUS (6-vu-lif 'e-rus), n. [< NL. ovulum, 
ovule, + L. /ore = E. bear 1 .] Producing 
ovules; oviferous. 
OVUligerous (6-vu-lij'e-rus), a. [< NL. ovulum, 
'e, carry.] Same as ovuliferoux 
|ndlTldluIof Oalle8ioamlH ux,ey,com- 
mon also to all the categories, may be designated with 
Haeckel the ovum-product or ovum-cycle. 
Jincyc. Brit., XVI. 843. 
Egg-shell (Ovuhitn ovit 
see ovule, ovum.'] 1. An 
ovule; an ovum. 2. 
[cop.] In conch., the typ- 
ical genus of OrnlidcK. 
0. ovum is the egg-shell or chi- 
na-shell. 0. (Radius) valva is 
the shuttle-shell or weaver- 
shell. Ovula Nabothi. small 
retention-cysts formed by the 
mucous follicles of the cervix 
uteri. Also called Nabothmn 
glands. 
Ovum (o ' vum), n. ; pi. 
ova (6'va). [L., = Gr. 
oX an egg: see eggl.~\ 
1. An egg, in a broad 
biological sense ; the 
proper product of an 
ovary; the female germ 
or seed, which when fer- 
tilized by the male sperm, and sometimes with- 
out such fecundation, is capable of developing 
into an individual like the parent. There is a great 
similarity in the ova of different animals throughout the 
metazoic series, from the sponge to the human being, no 
ova in their early stages being distinguishable from one an- 
other in their essential characters. All true ova, as distin- 
guished from spores and products of fission or gemmation, 
are referable to the single morphological type of the cell ; 
and they are furthermore indistinguishable from unicellu- 
lar animals, and from many of the cells composing the 
bodies of the higher animals. An ovum consists of a quan- 
tity of protoplasm or cell-substance called the viteUus or 
yolk, inclosed in a cell.wall or vitelline membrane, and 
provided with a nucleus and usually a nucleolus ; it is en- 
gendered in the ovarium, usually in an ovisac or so-called 
Graanan follicle, isdischarged from its matrix, usually then 
meeting with the male element, and proceeds to develop 
within or without the body of the parent. The ovum prop- 
er, like most cells, is usually of microscopic size ; but its 
bulk may be enormously increased by the addition of ex- 
trinsic or adventitious protoplasmic or albuminous sub- 
stance, and it may be further protected by various kinds of 
egg-pod or egg-shell, all without losing its essential charac- 
ter as a cell. The largest ova, relatively and absolutely, are 
birds' eggs, these being by far the largest cells known in 
ovum-product (6' vum-prod"ukt), . The whole 
product of an ovum ; an individual animal in 
ovule +L aercre carry.] Same as ovuliferom. the widest possible sense ; an ovum-cycle. 
TSs'HsL* "" fM ^ " e tsaA i ai < afiw 
^:&^ f L^s:Si^i ^^^^^^^' 
tnne of incasement in the female: the opposite "Owh! how!" quathichtho; . . . " 3 efarel: 
of spermist or animalcidist. Also orist. See -r^w^Xhthe wydewebotefortoweddeheregoodes." 
incasemcii t. Piers Plowman (C), xiii. 19. 
In mother Eve. according to the evolutionists called O w'-'t, pron. An obsolete form of you. 
Ovulists, were contained the mtatajto* "*"g f the what this mounteln be-meneth and this derke dale, 
entire human race. BMwtheca bacra, ALV. uv. Anfl thjs fefifj fgld fu) o{ {o , k {elre j 8chal ^ schewe 
OVUlite (6'vu-lit), n. [< ML. ovulum, a little ,., * Plowman (A), i. 2. 
^gTee^),^] A fossil egg. Imp. owb*,,. Same ^o,^ ^ ^ 
ovulum (6'vu-lum), w. ; pi. ovula (-la). [NL., < OW6 1 (o), v.; pret. owed (formerly ow^), PP- 
TL 1 rJ^alittleegg ! d P im.ofL! i,anegg: <^^^^J^^ 
pp. owen, awen, aje, etc.), < AS. ajran (pres. 
md. ah, pret. afcte, pp. dgen), have, possess, = 
OS. egan = OFries. #a = OHG. eigan, MHG. 
eipen = Icel. eiga = Sw. d'jra = Dan. ee = Goth. 
aigan (pres. otA), have, possess; akin to Skt. 
\/ ic, possess. From this verb, from the pret. 
(AS. ahte), comes the E. ought, now used as an 
auxiliary; from the pp. (AS. dgen), the E. adj. 
own 1 , and from that the verb MM*, which has 
taken the place of owe in its orig. sense 'pos- 
sess,' owe having become restricted to the sense 
of obligation. See own 1 , a., own 1 , .] I. trans. 
If. To possess; have; own; be the owner or 
rightful possessor of. 
And of thys towne was Joseph of Aramathla, that awght 
the new Tumbe or Monyment that our Savir Crist was 
buryed In. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 25. 
And I pray you tell the lady . . . that owes it that I 
will direct my life to honour this glove with serving her. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
This is no mortal business, nor no sound 
That the earth owes. Shak., Tempest, L 2. 407. 
2t. To be bound (to do something); be under 
obligation ; ought : followed by an object infini- 
tive. 
Ye owen to encyne and bowe youre herte to take the pa- 
cience of oure Lord Jhesu Crist. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
And that same kirk gert scho make 
Coriosly for that cros sake, 
For men auld hald that haly tre 
In honore als it aw to be. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. 8.X p. 123. 
Therby may we knowe that I owe to haue Rome by heri- 
tage as I haue Bretaigne. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 642. 
owl 
A fig for care, a fig for woe ! 
If I can't pay, why, I can owe. 
J. Heywood, Be Merry, Friends. 
A grateful mind 
By owing owes not, but still pays. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 56. 
To be owing, to be due, as a debt ; also, to be due, ascrib- 
able, or imputable. 
For strength of nature in youth passeth over many ex- 
cesses which are omng a man till his age. 
Bacon, Kegimen of Health. 
Your Happiness is airing to your Constancy and Merit. 
Steele, Conscious Lovers, v. 1. 
Such false impressions are airing to the abandoned writ- 
ings of men of wit Steele, Spectator, No. n. 
>). v. t. [A var. of own 2 , by confusion 
e 1 .] To own; acknowledge; confess. 
You have charged me with bullocking you into owing 
the truth ; it is very likely, an 't please your worship, that 
I should bullock him ; I have marks enow about my body 
to show of his cruelty to me. 
Fielding, Tom Jones, ii. 6. (Dames.) 
oweltyt (6'el-ti), n. [ME. "owelty, < OF. oeltf, 
oeltet, uclte, ovellete, eiwaliteit, ivelte, etc., other 
forms of egalte, equalite, etc., equality: see 
equality.'] Equality; in law, a kind of equality 
of service in subordinate tenures. Wharton. 
Also ovealty, ore%. owelty of exchange, owel- 
ty of partition, that which is required to be given by 
him who receives the greater value to him who receives 
the less, to compensate for the inequality. 
Owenia (6-e'ni-a), H. [NL., named in all senses 
after Richard Owen.] 1. A genus of trees of 
the polypetalous order Meliacea; and the tribe 
TricMliea; characterized by the short style, ex- 
serted anthers, three- (in one species twelve-) 
celled ovary, and drupaceous fruit. There are r> 
species, all Australian. They are smooth trees, covered 
which does not undergo transformation into the body of 
the chick is out of all proportion to the formative yolk 
proper, which makes only a speck in the great ball of 
"yellow" and "white." Such ova are called meroblastic, 
in distinction from holoblastic. The human ovum is very 
minute, relatively and absolutely, averaging about ,J 
of an inch in diameter. It is said to have been first rec- 
ognized by K. E. von Baer in 1827. The parts of the ovum 
have been badly named, without reference to its mor- 
phology as a cell. Thus, the cell-wall is called the zona 
pellucida; the nucleus is named the germinal vesicle or 
vesicle of Purkinje, and its nucleolus the germinal spot or 
spot of Wagner. The phrases germinal vesicle and ger- 
minal spot are misleading. The first stages of devel- 
opment of an ovum, consequent upon fertilization, con- 
sist in the segmentation of the mtellus, or yolk-division, 
by which the cell-substance becomes a mulberry -mass of 
spherules, called the morula. The rest is an intricate 
process of differentiation and specialization of these spher- 
ules, and their multiplications into the myriads of dif- 
ferent kinds of cells of which the whole body of most adult 
animals is fabricated. Some of the early special stages 
of this process are known as the monila, gastrula, Mas- 
tula, etc. The first tissue or coherent layer of cells pro- 
duced is called a blastoderm. When there are two layers, 
inner and outer blastodermic layers, they are distin 
guished as endoderm and ectoderm; when a third inter- 
mediate layer is formed, it is the mesoderm. An ovum is 
called, in general, a germ until the rudiments of its spe- 
cific characters appear, when it becomes an embryo, and 
later may be & fetus. That department of ontology which 
treats of the development of the ovum is embryology. See 
Thanne somme of yow for water owe to goo. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 8. 
3. To be indebted for; be or feel bound or un- 
der obligation for; of a debt, to be under ob- 
ligation to pay: followed by to, it often indi- 
cates origin or cause: as, to owe a thousand 
dollars ; to owe some one a grudge ; to owe suc- 
cess to family influence. 
"How?" quath alle the comune, "consailest thou ous to 
jelde 
Al that we owen eny wyght er we go to housele?" 
Piers Plowman (C), xxli. 394. 
Host. He ... said this other day you ought him a thou- 
sand pound. 
Prince. Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound? 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3. 162. 
The injuries I receiv'd, I must confess, 
Made me forget the love I ow'd this country. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 3. 
Christian charity and beneficence is a debt which we owe 
to our kings, as well as to the meanest of their subjects. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. viii. 
The debtor owes his liberty to his neighbour, as much as 
the murderer does his life to his prince. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 82. 
I have no debt but the debt of Nature, and I want but 
patience of her, and I will pay her every farthing I mee her. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vii. 7. 
He says but little, and that little said 
Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. 
Counter, Conversation, 1. 302. 
To owe one a day in harvest. See harvest. 
II. intrans. To be in debt ; continue to be in 
debt. 
panicles of small D , 
cerastfera a'nd O. nenosa are in Queensland called respec- 
tively tweet and sour plum. Both have hard wood, that of 
the latter highly colored and very strong, used in cabinet- 
making and wheelwrights' work. O. venosa is called tulip- 
wood. 
2. A genus of saccate ctenophorans of the fam- 
ily Mertensiidx. 3. A genus of marine anne- 
lids of the family Clymenidce. Also called Am- 
mochares. 
Owenite (6'en-It), . [< Owen (see def.) + -ite?.] 
A follower of Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Brit- 
ish reformer, and the father of English social- 
ism, who advocated the formation of social 
communities. 
owennet. An Old English form of own. 
ower 1 (o'er), n. [< ME. owere; < owe 1 + -er 1 .] 
If. One who possesses ; an owner. 
The great Ower of Heauen. 
Bp. Hall, Sermon at Exeter, Aug., 1837. 
2. One who owes or is in debt. 
They are not, sir, worst owers that do pay 
Debts when they can. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, xxxlv. 
ower ? (ou'er), prep, and adv. An obsolete or 
dialectal (Scotch) form of over. 
owerby (ou'er-bi),ato. A Scotch f orm of oterby. 
owerloup (our'loup), n. 1. The act of leaping 
over a fence or other obstruction. 2. An oc- 
casional trespass of cattle. 3. The stream- 
tide at the change of the moon. [Scotch in 
all uses.] 
owheret, adv. [ME., also oughwhere, owghwhere; 
< AS. dhwier, anywhere, < a, ever, a generalizing 
prefix, + hwwr, where : see where.] Anywhere. 
And if thou se a wastour mcher, y thee pray, 
His felowschip fayn y wolde that thou left. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 35. 
owl 1 (oul), 11. [< ME. owle, oule, ulc, < AS. file = 
I), nil = MLG. file, LG. tile = OHG. uwila, via, 
huwela, hiuwela, MHG. iuwel, iule, hiiwel, hiuwel, 
G. euU =Icel. ugla = Sw. nggla = Dan. ugle, an 
owl ; cf . OHG. huu-o, MHG. huwe, uwe, an owl ; F. 
huette, an owl; L. ulula, an owl, Hind, huhii, an 
owl, also a dove; all prob. orig. based on an imi- 
tation of the bird's cry, and thus remotely re- 
lated to howl.] 1. A raptorial nocturnal bird of 
prey of the family Striyidii'. Owls constitute a high- 
ly monomorphic group, the suborder Striges of the order 
Raptores. With few exceptions, they are of distinctively 
nocturnal habits and a peculiar physiognomy produced by 
the great size and breadth of the head and the shortened 
face with large eyes looking forward and usually set in a 
facial ruff or disk of modified feathers, which hide the base 
of the bill. Many owls have also " horns " (that is, ear-tufts) 
or plumicorns. The bill is hooked, but never toothed, and 
the nostrils open at the edge of the cere, not in it. The 
plumage is very soft and blended, without aftershafts, and 
the flight is noiseless. The talons are large, sharp, and 
hookeS as in other birds of prey ; the outer toe is versa- 
tile; and the feet are usually feathered to the claws. (See 
cut under braccate.) There are many anatomical charac- 
ters. (See Striges.) Owls are among the most nearly cos- 
mopolitan of birds. They feed entirely upuii animal sub- 
stances, and capture their prey alive, as small quadrupeds 
and birds, various reptiles, fishes, iind insects. They lay 
