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OS: /O-S/ 1. [{Operating System}] n. An abbreviation heavily used in email, occasionally in speech.
2. n.,obs. On ITS, an output spy. See "{OS and JEDGAR}" (in {Appendix A}). -- The AI Ha...
OS SCANDAL: Unix and Ms. Dos found in love nest! -- "National Computer Science Enquire
O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair?
-- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Pleasures of Hope, Part ii, Line 325...
OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design.
The absence of a good wo...
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Goblet of...
O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act v, Sc. 1...
O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iv, Sc.
2...
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with a passion would I shake the world.
-- William Shakespeare...
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!...
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you!

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