Oared shrew(Zoöl.), an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); — called also black water shrew.

Oarfish
(Oar"fish`) n. (Zoöl.) The ribbon fish.

Oarfoot
(Oar"foot`) n. (Zoöl.) Any crustacean of the genus Remipes.

Oar-footed
(Oar"-foot`ed) a. Having feet adapted for swimming.

Oarless
(Oar"less), a. Without oars. Sylvester.

Oarlock
(Oar"lock`) n. (Naut.), The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.

Oarsman
(Oars"man) n.; pl. Oarsmen One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.

At the prow of the boat, rose one of the oarsmen.
Longfellow.

Oarsweed
(Oars"weed`) n. (Bot.) Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.

Oary
(Oar"y) a. Having the form or the use of an oar; as, the swan's oary feet. Milton. Addison.

Oasis
(O"as*is) (o"a*sis or o*a"sis; 277), n.; pl. Oases [L., fr. Gr. 'o`asis; cf. Copt. ouahe.] A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.

My one oasis in the dust and drouth
Of city life.
Tennyson.

Oast
(Oast) n. [OE. ost, AS. ast; cf. Gr. a'i^qos burning heat.] A kiln to dry hops or malt; a cockle. Mortimer.

Oat
(Oat) n.; pl. Oats [OE. ote, ate, AS. ata, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.]

1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass and its edible grain; — commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense.

2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] Milton.

Animated oatsorAnimal oats(Bot.), A grass (Avena sterilis) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. — Oat fowl(Zoöl.), the snow bunting; — so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] — Oat grass(Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as Danthonia spicata, D. sericea, and Arrhenatherum avenaceum, all common in parts of the United States. — To feel one's oats, to be conceited ro self-important. [Slang] — To sow one's wild oats, to indulge in youthful dissipation. Thackeray. — Wild oats(Bot.), a grass (Avena fatua) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats.

Oatcake
(Oat"cake) n. A cake made of oatmeal.

Oar
(Oar), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Oared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Oaring.] To row. "Oared himself." Shak.

Oared with laboring arms.
Pope.

Oared
(Oared) a.

1. Furnished with oars; — chiefly used in composition; as, a four- oared boat.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) Having feet adapted for swimming. (b) Totipalmate; — said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.

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