Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of ocher.
  • noun Usury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) See ocher.

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  • noun mineralogy Alternative form of ocher.
  • noun Interest on money; usury; increase.
  • verb transitive To increase (in price); add to.

Etymologies

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From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr ("usury"), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker ("usury"), Icelandic ókur ("usury"), Swedish ocker ("usury"), German Wucher ("usury, profiteering, racket"), Dutch woeker ("usury"), Old English wōcor ("increase, growth, fruit, usury"), Gothic  (wōkrs, "interest, usury, tax"), Latin augere ("to increase"). More at eke, wax.

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  • MART.N: You have the days of B.oker T. Washington, W.B. Dubois.

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  • Beecher, whose estimable cook-book you certainly must get, mentions that ochra seeds or gumbo cannot be told from Java; an army correspondent has since reported coffee made at the South from oker seeds, doubtless the same; another found in use the sweet potato, roasted, and flavored with coffee; while a friend has just described the most enticing beverage made from chickory, -- the root being stripped and dried under the stove.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

  • He lookit like some berfit tinkler wife that had been too, an 'had t'a'in, ower the heid, intil a barrel o' yellow oker; an 'stickin' on his weyst there was ane o 'my winda tickets -- "Just in To-Day."

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • Marcus Garvey's personality differed markedly from that of both B.oker T. Washington and W.E. B. DuB.is.

    The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs

  • B.oker T. Washington was greeted by a large audience and so were Susan B. Anthony and Anna H. Shaw.

    A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

  • He was easiest intrigued, not by force and originality, but by a sickly, _Ladies 'Home Journal_ sort of piquancy; it was this that made him see a genius in the Philadelphia Zola, W.B. Trites, and that led him to hymn an abusive business letter by Frank A. Munsey, author of "The B.y B.oker" and "A.loat in a Great City," as a significant human document.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • H.oker, Mrs.E. H. Bullard, and many other of the most eminent women of the country will be in attendance.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • All their accustomed sports were neglected, and their play-hours devoted to drawing with chalk and oker.

    The Life Studies And Works Of Benjamin West Esq Galt, John 1820

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