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orifice
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An orifice is any opening, mouth , hole or vent, as in a pipe, a plate, or a body Body orifice , any opening in the body of an animal Orifice plate , a restriction used to measure flow or to control pressure or flow, sometimes given specialised names: Calibrated ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orifice \Or"i*fice\, n. [F., from L. orificium; os, oris, a mouth + facere to make. See Oral , and Fact .] A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound. --Shak. Etna was bored through ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French orifice "the opening of a wound" (14c.) and directly from Latin orificium "an opening," literally "mouth-making," from os (genitive oris ) "mouth" (see oral ) + facere "make" (see factitious ). Related: Orificial .
Usage examples of orifice.
But then, avaunt, you ghost, back to the orifice, back and avaunt, avaunt, I say!
Most stickies simply had a gaping buccal orifice, fringed with ragged porcine hairs, that dribbled wetly.
PREFACE The Murder IT WAS ON THE SEVENTH TIME THEY HAD PUSHED THE AMERICAN boy down into the liquid excrement of the cesspit that he failed to fight back, and died down there, every orifice filled with unspeakable filth.
Vppon the which there was placed an other vessell as it were a circular couer of a most curious leafe worke, with a smal coronice, and an artificiall orifice.
Huomeng looked like a cybernaut with tubes sprouting from his chest and every orifice.
Which orifice we use to express it does not affect my pleasure in your company.
Both of her desperately quivering orifices were voraciously sucking in on the dually fucking instruments within them .
A ragged opening at the esophageal orifice, on the anterior surface of the stomach was found.
This orifice was nearly twenty feet in width, but scarcely two in height.
It did not split his armor, but flame and hot gas jetted from every vent and orifice.
The hole, or recess, in this bench, whose position is indicated by the dotted lines on the plan, is the sacred orifice from which the katchina is said to come, and is called the katchinkihu.
Cult of the Dead Cow, a hacker gang headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, put on a mediagenic show to promote its Back Orifice 2000 break-in program.
I felt my mihrab begin to open and stretch, like a mouth yawning, and the lips of it continued to gape wider, until they must have made the orifice a full circle, like a mouth screaming.
The artist had sealed the open orifices of the mouth, nose and eyeballs with patches of white nephritic jade which contrasted sharply with the greenish color of the rest of the skull.
The older observers thought this woman must have had two orifices to her womb, one of which had some connection with the stomach, as they had records of the dissection of a female in whom was found a conformation similar to this.