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] 1.
The tenth month of the year, containing thirty-one
days.

2. Ale or cider made in that month.

The country gentlemen had a posset or drink they
called October.

Emerson.

||Oc*toc"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL.]
Octocerata.

||Oc`to*cer"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr.
Gr.&?; eight + &?;, a horn.] (Zoöl.) A suborder of
Cephalopoda including Octopus, Argonauta, and allied genera, having
eight arms around the head; -- called also Octopoda.

Oc"to*chord (?), n. (Mus.)
See Octachord.

Oc`todec"i*mo (?), a. [L.
octodecim eighteen. See Octavo, Decimal, and
-mo.] Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an
octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

Oc`to*dec"i*mo, n.; pl.
Octodecimos (&?;). A book composed of sheets
each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more
or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; --
usually written 18mo or 18°, and called
eighteenmo.

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