Old Delhi
1: a city in north central India [syn: {Delhi}]
Old Dominion
1: a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War [syn: {Virginia}, {Old Dominion State}, {VA}]
Old Dominion State
1: a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War [syn: {Virginia}, {Old Dominion}, {VA}]
Old English
1: English prior to about 1100 [syn: {Anglo-Saxon}]
Old English sheepdog
1: large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy blue-gray-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to Roman occupation of Britain [syn: {bobtail}]
Old Faithful
1: a geyser in Yellowstone National Park that erupts for about 4 minutes about every 65 minutes
old fashioned
1: a cocktail made of whiskey and bitters and sugar with fruit slices
Old French
1: the earliest form of the French language; 9th to 15th century
Old Frisian
1: the Frisian language until the 16th century; the Germanic language of ancient Frisia
old geezer
1: an elderly man [syn: {old-timer}, {oldtimer}, {gaffer}, {antique}]
Old Glory
1: the national flage of the United States of America [syn: {American flag}, {Stars and Stripes}, {Star-Spangled Banner}]
old growth
1: forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity [syn: {virgin forest}]
old guard
1: a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas
old hand
1: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service [syn: {veteran}, {old-timer}, {oldtimer}, {warhorse}, {old stager}, {stager}]
Old Hickory
1: 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845) [syn: {Jackson}, {Andrew Jackson}]
Old Icelandic
1: the extinct dialect of Old Norse that was spoken in Iceland up until about 1600
Old Ironsides
1: United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States; it won brilliant victories over British frigates during the War of 1812 and is without doubt the...
Old Italian
1: the Italian language up to the middle of the 16th century
old lady
1: your own wife; "meet my old lady"
Old Latin
1: the oldest recorded Latin (dating back at early as the 6th century B.C.)
Old Line State
1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: {Maryland}, {Free State}, {MD}]
old maid
1: an elderly unmarried woman [syn: {spinster}] 2: any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads [syn: {zinnia}, {old maid flower}] 3: comm...
old maid flower
1: any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads [syn: {zinnia}, {old maid}]
old man
1: a man who is very old [syn: {greybeard}, {graybeard}, {Methuselah}] 2: a familiar term of address for a man [syn: {old boy}] 3: an informal term for your father 4: aromatic herb of temperate Eurasi...
old man of the mountain
1: whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States [syn: {alpin...
old man's beard
1: dense festoons of greenish-gray hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America [syn: {Spanish moss}...
old master
1: a great European painter prior to 19th century
old money
1: the inherited wealth of established upper-class families; "he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth"; "she is the daughter of old money from Massachusetts" [syn: {silver spoon}]
Old Nick
1: (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell [syn: {Satan}, {Devil}, {the Devil}, {Lucifer}, {Beelzebub}, {the Tempter}, {Pr...
Old Norse
1: the extinct Germanic language of medieval Scandinavia and Iceland from about to 700 to 1350
Old North French
1: the medieval Norman dialect of Old French [syn: {Norman-French}]
Old North State
1: a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: {North Carolina}, {Tar Heel State}, {NC}]
old person
1: an elderly person [syn: {oldster}, {senior citizen}, {golden ager}]
Old Prussian
1: a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European
old salt
1: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: {mariner}, {seaman}, {tar}, {Jack-tar}, {Jack}, {seafarer}, {gob}, {sea dog}]
old school
1: a class of people favoring traditional ideas
old sledge
1: a form of all fours in which a total of seven points is game [syn: {seven-up}]
old squaw
1: a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States [syn: {oldwife}, {Clangula hyemalis}]
old stager
1: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service [syn: {veteran}, {old-timer}, {oldtimer}, {old hand}, {warhorse}, {stager}]
old style
1: a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes [syn: {old style font}] [ant: {modern}]
Old Style calendar
1: the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months hav...
old style font
1: a typeface (based on an 18th century design) distinguished by irregularity and slanted ascender serifs and little contrast between light and heavy strokes [syn: {old style}] [ant: {modern}]
Old Testament
1: the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
old times
1: past times remembered with nostalgia [syn: {auld langsyne}, {langsyne}, {the good old days}]
old witch grass
1: North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land [syn: {witchgrass}, {witch grass}, {old witchgrass}, {tumble grass}, {Panicum capillare}]
old witchgrass
1: North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land [syn: {witchgrass}, {witch grass}, {old witch grass}, {tumble grass}, {Panicum capillare}]
old woman
1: a woman who is old 2: herb with grayish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant [syn: {dusty miller}, {beach wormwood}, {Artemisia stelleriana}]
Old World
1: of or relating to the Old World (especially Europe); "Old World hawks"; "Old World monkeys" n : the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas
Old World buffalo
1: any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo [syn: {buffalo}]
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Old World coral snake
1: any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia [syn: {coral snake}]
Old World crayfish
1: small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America [syn: {ecrevisse}]
Old World flycatcher
1: any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing [syn: {true flycatcher}, {flycatcher}]
Old World hop hornbeam
1: medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor [syn: {Ostrya carpinifolia}]
Old World leishmaniasis
1: leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions [syn: {cutaneous leishmaniasis}, {oriental sore}, {tropical sore}, {Delhi boil}, {Aleppo boil}]
Old World mistletoe
1: Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas [syn: {mistletoe}, {Viscum album}]
Old World monkey
1: of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together [syn: {catarrhine}]
Old World oriole
1: mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black [syn: {oriole}]
Old World rabbit
1: common grayish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young born n...
Old World robin
1: small Old World songbird with a reddish breast [syn: {robin}, {redbreast}, {robin redbreast}, {Erithacus rubecola}]
Old World warbler
1: small active brownish or grayish Old World birds [syn: {true warbler}]
Old World yew
1: predominant yew in Europe; extraordinarily long-lived and slow growing; one of the oldest species in the world [syn: {English yew}, {Taxus baccata}]
old-age pension
1: a monthly payment made to someone who is retired from work [syn: {retirement pension}, {retirement check}, {retirement benefit}, {retirement fund}, {superannuation}]
old-fashioned
1: out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: {antique}, {demode}, {ex}, {old-hat(p)}, {outmoded}, {passe}, {passee}]
old-field toadflax
1: North American plant having racemes of blue-violet flowers [syn: {blue toadflax}, {Linaria canadensis}]
old-hat
1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some ...
old-maid's bonnet
1: stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers [syn: {wild lupine}, {sundial lupine}, {Indian beet}, {Lupinus perennis}]
old-man-of-the-woods
1: edible mild-tasting mushroom found in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America [syn: {Strobilomyces floccopus}]
old-time
1: attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots" [syn: {quaint}, {olde worlde}]
old-timer
1: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service [syn: {veteran}, {oldtimer}, {old hand}, {warhorse}, {old stager}, {stager}] 2: an elderly man [syn: {old...
old-world
1: characteristic of former times especially in Europe; "an old-world cottage"
olde worlde
1: attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots" [syn: {old-time}, {quaint}]
olden
1: of time long past; "olden days"
Oldenberg
1: United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929) [syn: {Claes Oldenberg}]
older
1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: {aged}...
oldest
1: first in time; "the oldest rocks on the planet"
Oldfield
1: United States race driver who was the first to drive faster than a mile a minute (1878-1946) [syn: {Barney Oldfield}, {Berna Eli Oldfield}]
oldie
1: a song that was formerly popular [syn: {golden oldie}]
oldness
1: the opposite of youngness [ant: {youngness}] 2: the opposite of newness [ant: {newness}]
oldster
1: an elderly person [syn: {old person}, {senior citizen}, {golden ager}]
oldtimer
1: an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service [syn: {veteran}, {old-timer}, {old hand}, {warhorse}, {old stager}, {stager}] 2: an elderly man [syn: {ol...
Olduvai Gorge
1: a gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains
oldwench
1: tropical Atlantic fish [syn: {queen triggerfish}, {Bessy cerca}, {oldwife}, {Balistes vetula}]
oldwife
1: tropical Atlantic fish [syn: {queen triggerfish}, {Bessy cerca}, {oldwench}, {Balistes vetula}] 2: a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States [syn: {old squaw}, {Clang...
Olea cunninghamii
1: northern Zealand tree having dense hard light-brown wood [syn: {black maire}]
Olea europaea
1: evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits [syn: {olive}, {European olive tree}]
Olea lanceolata
1: small New Zealand tree having red pulpy one-seeded fruit [syn: {white maire}]
Oleaceae
1: trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac [syn: {family Oleaceae}, {olive family}]
oleaceous
1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family
oleaginous
1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-...
oleaginousness
1: consisting of or covered with oil [syn: {greasiness}, {oiliness}] 2: smug self-serving earnestness [syn: {fulsomeness}, {oiliness}, {smarminess}, {unctuousness}, {unction}]
Oleales
1: coextensive with the family Oleaceae; in some classifications included in the order Gentianales [syn: {order Oleales}]
oleander
1: an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions [syn: {...
oleander fern
1: tropical fern having leathery fronds resembling oleander; found from Asia to Polynesia [syn: {Oleandra neriiformis}, {Oleandra mollis}]
Oleandra
1: or family Polypodiaceae: tropical epiphytic or terrestrial ferns [syn: {genus Oleandra}]
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