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Ointment – Oligocene

Ointment

a soft, unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

Oil of Vitriol

the common name manufactures; porcelain, paper, chemiof strong sulphuric acid.

Okhotsk

SEA OF, an extensive inlet of the North Pacific Ocean, on the E. coast of Russian Siberia, nearly enclosed by Kamchatka and the Kuriles and Saghalien. It is little navigated.

On its N. shore, at the mouth of the Okhota, is the small seaport of Okhotsk.

Oklahoma

UNIVERSITY OF, a co-educational, non-sectarian institution ported at the close of 1919: Professors in Norman, Okla.; founded in 1892; reand instructors, 150; students, 3,683; president, S. D. Brooks, LL.D.

Old Town

a town in Penobscot co., Me., near the W. bank of the Penobscot river, and on the Maine Central and Bangor and Aroostook railroads; 12 miles N. N. E. of Bangor. It has extensive water power, and is a center of the lumber industry, having one of the largest lumber mills in the world. Pop. (1920) 6,956.

Old World

the Eastern Hemisphere, so named in popular parlance subsequent to the discovery of the New World, in 1492.

Olenek

a river of Northern Siberia which rises under the polar circle, and enters the Arctic Ocean to the W. of the Lena delta; length, about 1,200 miles.

Oleograph

a name given to an ordinary chromo lithograph which has been "roughed" after printing, mounted on canvas, and varnished so as to imitate an oil painting.

Olfactory Nerves

in anatomy, the fifth pair of cerebral nerves ramifying on the Schneiderian membrane, producing the sense of smell, and also sensibility to the nose.

Olifant River

a forked stream of Cape Colony, South Africa; rises in the mountains N. E. of Cape Town, and, after a N. W. course of 150 miles, enters the Atlantic. Area of drainage basin, 13,000 square miles. Another stream bearing the same name rises in the Transvaal, and goes E. to join the Limpopo.

Oligarchy

a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the hands of a small exclusive class; the members of such a class or body.

Oligocene

in geology, a term employed by Beyrich to designate certain Tertiary beds of Germany (Mayence etc.).