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All are obnoxious, and this faulty land,

Like fainting Hester, does before you stand

Watching your scepter.

3. Offensive; odious; hateful; as, an
obnoxious statesman; a minister obnoxious to the
Whigs. Burke.

-- Ob*nox"ious*ly, adv. --
Ob*nox"ious*ness, n. South.

Ob*nu"bi*late (?), v. t. [L.
obnubilatus, p. p. of obnubilare to obscure. See Ob-
, and Nubilate.] To cloud; to obscure. [Obs.]
Burton. -- Ob*nu"bi*la"tion (#), n.
[Obs.] Beddoes.

O"boe (?), n. [It., fr. F.
hautbois. See Hautboy.] (Mus.) One of the
higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great
antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat
like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of
a double reed; a hautboy.

||Oboe d'amore [It., lit., oboe of love],
and ||Oboe di caccia [It.


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