Vocabulary : Ordovician to Oreodon

Ordovician : Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. ;; The Ordovician formation.
Ordure : Dung; excrement; faeces. ;; Defect; imperfection; fault.
Ordurous : Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
Ore : Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry. ;; The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers). ;; A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless. ;; Metal; as, the liquid ore.
Oread : One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.

Oreades : A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2.
Orectic : Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
Oregon grape : An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.
Oreide : See Oroide.
Oreodon : A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

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