Ostrogoth noun [ Latin Ostrogothi , plural See East , and Goth .] One of the Eastern Goths. See Goth .

Ostrogothic adjective Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.

Oswego tea (Botany) An American aromatic herb ( Monarda didyma ), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers.

Otacoustic adjective [ Oto- + acoustic : confer French otacoustique .] Assisting the sense of hearing; as, an otacoustic instrument.

Otacoustic, Otacousticon noun An instrument to facilitate hearing, as an ear trumpet.

Otaheite apple [ So named from Otaheite , or Tahiti, one of the Society Islands.] (Botany) (a) The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree ( Spondias dulcis ), also called vi-apple . It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples. (b) A West Indian name for a myrtaceous tree ( Jambosa Malaccensis ) which bears crimson berries.

Otalgia noun [ New Latin , from Greek ...; o'y^s , 'wto`s , the ear + ... pain: confer French otalgie .] (Medicine) Pain in the ear; earache.

Otalgic adjective (Medicine) Of or pertaining to otalgia. -- noun A remedy for otalgia.

Otalgy noun Pain in the ear; otalgia.

Otary noun ; plural Otaries . [ Greek ... large-eared, from ..., ..., ear: confer French otarie .] (Zoology) Any eared seal.

Otheoscope noun [ Greek ... to push + -scope .] (Physics) An instrument for exhibiting the repulsive action produced by light or heat in an exhausted vessel; a modification of the radoimeter. W. Crookes.

Other (ŭ&thlig;"ẽr) conj. [ See Or .] Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [ Obsolete]

Other of chalk, other of glass.

Chaucer.

Other pron. & adjective [ Anglo-Saxon ōðer ; akin to Old Saxon āðar , ōðar , D. & German ander , Old High German andar , Icelandic annarr , Swedish annan , Danish anden , Goth. anþar , Sanskrit antara : confer Latin alter ; all orig. comparatives: confer Sanskrit anya other. √180. Confer Alter .] [ Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.]

1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.

Each of them made other for to win.

Chaucer.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Matt. v. 39.

2. Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.

3. Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every ; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.

4. Left, as opposed to right. [ Obsolete]

A distaff in her other hand she had.

Spenser.

» Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in contrast with one , some , that , this , etc.

The one shall be taken, and the other left.

Matt. xxiv. 41.

And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground.

Matt. xiii. 7, 8.

It is also used, by ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or understood.

To write this , or to design the other .

Dryden.

It is written with the indefinite article as one word, another ; is used with each , indicating a reciprocal action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing , or other person , in which case it may have a plural.

The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others .

Ps. xlix. 10.

If he is trimming, others are true.

Thackeray.

Other is sometimes followed by but , beside , or besides ; but oftener by than .

No other but such a one as he.

Coleridge.

Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us.

Is. xxvi. 13.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.

1 Cor. iii. 11.

The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.

Hawthorne.

Other some , some others. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] -- The other day , at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.

Bind my hair up: as't was yesterday?
No, nor t' other day .

B. Jonson.

Other adverb Otherwise. "It shall none other be." Chaucer. "If you think other ." Shak.

Othergates adverb [ Other + gate way. See wards .] In another manner. [ Obsolete]

He would have tickled you othergates .

Shak.

Otherguise, Otherguess adjective & adverb [ A corruption of othergates .] Of another kind or sort; in another way. " Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.

Otherness noun The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.

Otherways adverb See Otherwise . Tyndale.

Otherwhere adverb In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere. Milton. Tennyson.

Otherwhile, Otherwhiles adverb At another time, or other times; sometimes; ...ccasionally. [ Archaic]

Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more.

Holland.

Otherwise adverb [ Other + wise manner.]

1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer.

Thy father was a worthy prince,
And merited, alas! a better fate;
But Heaven thought otherwise .

Addison.

2. In other respects.

It is said, truly, that the best men otherwise are not always the best in regard of society.

Hooker.

3. In different circumstances; under other conditions; as, I am engaged, otherwise I would accept.

» Otherwise , like so and thus , may be used as a substitute for the opposite of a previous adjective, noun, etc.

Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise , yet as a fool receive me.

2 Cor. xi. 16.

Her eyebrows . . . rather full than otherwise .

Fielding.

Othman noun & adjective See Ottoman .

Otic adjective [ Greek ..., from o'y^s , 'wto`s , the ear: confer French otique .] Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the ear; auricular; auditory.

Otiose adjective [ Latin otiosus , from otium ease.] Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. " Otiose assent." Paley.

The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and un...rofitable cessation from even good deeds which they would enforce.

Alford.

Otiosity noun [ Latin otiositas .] Leisure; indolence; idleness; ease. [ R.] Thackeray.

Otis noun [ Latin , a kind of bustard, Greek ....] (Zoology) A genus of birds including the bustards.

Otitis noun [ New Latin , from Greek o'y^s , 'wto`s , the ear + -itis .] (Medicine) Inflammation of the ear.

Oto- [ Greek o'y^s , 'wto`s , the ear.] A combining form denoting relation to , or situation near or in , the ear .

Otoba fat (Chemistry) A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba , a species of nutmeg tree.

Otoconite noun [ Oto- + Greek ... dust.] (Anat.) (a) A mass of otoliths. (b) An otolith.

Otocrane noun [ Oto- + Greek ... skull.] (Anat.) The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.

Otocranial adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the otocrane.

Otocyst noun [ Oto- + cyst .] (Zoology & Anat.) An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

Otography noun [ Oto- + -graphy .] A description of the ear.

Otolith, Otolite noun [ Oto- + -lith , -lite .] (Anat.) One of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite .

Otolithic, Otolitic adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to otoliths.

Otological adjective Of or pertaining tootology.

Otologist noun One skilled in otology; an aurist.

Otology noun [ Oto- + - logy .] The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

Otopathy noun [ Oto- + Greek ... to suffer.] (Medicine) A diseased condition of the ear.

Otorrhœa noun [ New Latin , from Greek o'y^s , 'wto`s , the ear + ... to flow.] (Medicine) A flow or running from the ear, esp. a purulent discharge.

Otoscope noun [ Oto- + - scope .] An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Otoscopeic adjective Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.

Otoscopy noun (Medicine) The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.

Otosteal noun [ Oto- + Greek ... a bone.] (Anat.) An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.

Otozoum noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., a fabled giant + zo^,on an animal.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.

Ottar noun See Attar .

Ottava rima [ Italian See Octave , and Rhyme .] (Pros.) A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by Keats in "Isabella," by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas," etc.

Ottawas noun plural ; sing. Ottawa (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who, when first known, lived on the Ottawa River. Most of them subsequently migrated to the southwestern shore of Lake Superior.