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a. Bobtailed. “Bobtail cur.” Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not obtrusive; unobtrusive.

-- In`ob*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- In`ob*tru"sive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obtained p. pr. & vb. n. Obtaining. ] [ F. obtenir, L. obtinere; ob (see Ob-) + tenere to hold. See Tenable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To hold; to keep; to possess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire
He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some pray for riches; riches they obtain. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

By guileful fair words peace may be obtained. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It may be that I may obtain children by her. Gen. xvi. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To attain; gain; procure; acquire; win; earn. See Attain. -- To Obtain, Get, Gain, Earn, Acquire. The idea of getting is common to all these terms. We may, indeed, with only a slight change of sense, substitute get for either of them; as, to get or to gain a prize; to get or to obtain an employment; to get or to earn a living; to get or to acquire a language. To gain is to get by striving; and as this is often a part of our good fortune, the word gain is peculiarly applicable to whatever comes to us fortuitously. Thus, we gain a victory, we gain a cause, we gain an advantage, etc. To earn is to deserve by labor or service; as, to earn good wages; to earn a triumph. Unfortunately, one does not always get or obtain what he has earned. To obtain implies desire for possession, and some effort directed to the attainment of that which is not immediately within our reach. Whatever we thus seek and get, we obtain, whether by our own exertions or those of others; whether by good or bad means; whether permanently, or only for a time. Thus, a man obtains an employment; he obtains an answer to a letter, etc. To acquire is more limited and specific. We acquire what comes to us gradually in the regular exercise of our abilities, while we obtain what comes in any way, provided we desire it. Thus, we acquire knowledge, property, honor, reputation, etc. What we acquire becomes, to a great extent, permanently our own; as, to acquire a language; to acquire habits of industry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prevail; to succeed. [ archaic and Rare ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

So run that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. ix. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is due from the judge to the advocate, some commendation, where causes are fair pleaded; especially towards the side which obtaineth not. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being obtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who obtains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. obtectus, p. p. of obtegere to cover over. ] 1. Covered; protected. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain flies; also called obtect. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. & i. [ See Obtemperate. ] (Scots Law) To obey (a judgment or decree). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. obtemperare, obtemperatum to obey. ] To obey. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obtended; p. pr. & vb. n. Obtending. ] [ L. obtendere, obtentum, to stretch or place before or against; ob (see Ob-) + tendere to stretch. ] 1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. [ Obs. ] Dryden [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtenebrate to make dark. ] The act of darkening; the state of being darkened; darkness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtentio. See Obtend. ] The act of obtending. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obtested; p. pr. & vb. n. Obtesting. ] [ L. obtestari; ob (see Ob-) + testari to witness, fr. testis a witness. ] 1. To call to witness; to invoke as a witness. [ R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beseech; to supplicate; to beg for. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To protest. [ R. ] E. Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtestatio. ] The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtrectatio, from obtrectare to detract from through envy. See Detract. ] Slander; detraction; calumny. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obtruded, p. pr. & vb. n. Obtruding. ] [ L. obtrudere, obtrusum; ob (see Ob-) + trudere to thrust. See Threat. ] 1. To thrust impertinently; to present to a person without warrant or solicitation; as, to obtrude one's self upon a company; to obtrude one's opinion on another. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The objects of our senses obtrude their particular ideas upon our minds, whether we will or no. Lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To thrust one's self upon a company or upon attention; to intrude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To Obtrude, Intrude. To intrude is to thrust one's self into a place, society, etc., without right, or uninvited; to obtrude is to force one's self, remarks, opinions, etc., into society or upon persons with whom one has no such intimacy as to justify such boldness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who obtrudes. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. obtruncatus, p. p. of obtruncare. ] To deprive of a limb; to lop. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtruncatio. ] The act of lopping or cutting off. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtrusio. See Obtrude. ] 1. The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is obtruded. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices or excuses obtrusion. [ R. ] Gent. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive. -- Ob*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- Ob*tru"sive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obtunded; p. pr. & vb. n. Obtunding. ] [ L. obtundere, obtusum; ob (see Ob-) + tundere to strike or beat. See Stutter. ] To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; to blunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall. [ Archaic ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . have filled all our law books with the obtunding story of their suits and trials. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtundens, p. pr. of obtundere. ] (Med.) A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Obturated p. pr. & vb. n. Obturating ] [ L. obturatus; p.p. of obturare. ] To stop or close, as an opening; specif., (Ordnance), to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. obturare to stop up: cf. F. obturation. ] The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening. “Deaf by an outward obturation.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. obturare to stop up: cf. F. obturateur. ] 1. That which closes or stops an opening. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ordnance) Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Photog.) A camera shutter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Anat.) Serving as an obturator; closing an opening; pertaining to, or in the region of, the obturator foramen; as, the obturator nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obturator foramen (Anat.), an opening situated between the public and ischial parts of the innominate bone and closed by the obturator membrane; the thyroid foramen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Obstuseangular. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Obtuser superl. Obtusest. ] [ L. obtusus, p. p. of obtundere to blunt: cf. F. obtus. See Obtund. ] 1. Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not having acute sensibility or perceptions; not alert, especially to the feelings of others; dull; stupid; as, obtuse senses. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Dull; deadened; as, obtuse sound. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an obtuse manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being obtuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtusio, from obtundere to blunt. See Obtund. ] 1. The act or process of making obtuse or blunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being dulled or blunted; as, the obtusion of the senses. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To obtain beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To obtain again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be reobtained. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Partially obtuse. [ 1913 Webster ]