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n.
A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).
n.
A genus of birds including the African ostriches.
n.
One of the Ostracoidea.
n. pl.
A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.
imp. & p. p.
of Ostracize
a.
Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ostracize
n. pl.
A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches.
v. t.
To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
n.
A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
n.
One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are used only as an assistance in running or swimming.
n. pl.
Ostracoidea.
n. pl.
In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to Ratitae, or Dromaeognathae.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Ostracoidea.
a.
A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.
n.
A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.
n.
Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe.
n.
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
v. t.
To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends.
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