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Ol"la (?), n. [See Olio.]
1. A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary
urn, especially one of baked clay.

2. A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-
podrida.

||Ol`la-po*dri"da (?), n. [Sp., lit., a
rotten pot. See Olio.] 1. A favorite
Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat
chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.

2. Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous
collection; an olio. B. Jonson.

Ol"o*gy (?), n. [See -logy.]
A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of
knowledge.

He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology,
geology, mineralogy, and all other ologies
whatsoever.

||Ol"pe (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.]
Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids;
afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.

||O*lu"sa*trum (?), n.


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