Section M, N, and O

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[R.] N. W.
Taylor.

Ough"where` (?), adv. [AS.
āhwær.] Anywhere; somewhere. See
Owher. [Obs.]

Ouis"ti*ti (?), n. [F.]
(Zoöl.) See Wistit.

Oul (?), n. An awl. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Oul, n. An owl. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Ou"la*chan (?), n. (Zoöl.)
Same as Eulachon.

Ounce (?), n. [F. once, fr. L.
uncia a twelfth, the twelfth part of a pound or of a foot: cf.
Gr. &?; bulk, mass, atom. Cf. 2d Inch, Oke.]
1. A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound
avoirdupois, and containing 437&?; grains.

2. (Troy Weight) The twelfth part of a
troy pound.

&fist; The troy ounce contains twenty pennyweights, each of
twenty-four grains, or, in all, 480 grains, and is the twelfth part
of the troy pound. The troy ounce is also a weight in apothecaries'
weight. [Troy ounce is sometimes written as one word,
troyounce.

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