Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To or toward the mouth or oral region: opposed to aborad.

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  • adverb In anatomy, towards the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)

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  • adverb toward the mouth or oral region

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Examples

  • And consequently the surface of the hill began to disappear, and there were chasms in the orad, which caused those who travelled on wheels to sit still, staring across with angry eyes, and sometimes to apostrophize the doer of these deeds with very naughty words.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • And consequently the surface of the hill began to disappear, and there were chasms in the orad, which caused those who travelled on wheels to sit still, staring across with angry eyes, and sometimes to apostrophize the doer of these deeds with very naughty words.

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

  • QuickDrawMcGraw: the Yankess are road favs most of the time and win most of the time on the orad vs. subpar teams, over the long haul this system might work but you are asking to bet against the same team every single time when they are road favorites. calinreddog:

    unknown title 2009

  • You keurig k cups to go at him with a few skilfully dispossession, devotedly passim distressfully and tael a afternoon or else your atherosclerosis disturbance be impertinently masked and undramatically orad as each as reciprocally to ashamedly.

    Rational Review 2009

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