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▪ I. † ob, n.1 Obs.
[From ob., abbreviation of objection, used in conjunction with sol. = solution, in old books of divinity.]
In phr. ob(s) and sol(s) = objection(s) and solution(s); scholastic or subtle disputation. Hence † ob-and-soller Obs. nonce-wd., a scholastic or subtle disputant.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 11 Very skilfull in the learning of ob and Sol. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. iii. (1651) 675 A thousand idle questions, nice distinctions, subtleties, Obs and Sols. c1660Loyal Songs (1731) II. 217 Whilst he should give us Sol's and Ob's, He brings us in some simple bobs. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1242 To pass for Deep and Learned Scholars; Although but Paltry, Ob and Sollers.
▪ II. † ob, n.2 Obs.
[a. Heb. ōb(h necromancer.]
A wizard, magician, sorcerer, ventriloquist.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. iii. xxii. 336 They peep and mutter, like Obs and Pythons, whispering as out of the earth and their bellies.
▪ III. ob|ɒb|
A representation of a pronunciation of the word of prep., supposed to occur esp. in the speech of American Blacks.
1839Bentley's Misc. VI. 263 He said de Queen ob Sheba wab a dark lady, may be bery dark. 1846Negro Singer's Own Bk. 5, I am glad ob it, for my part. Ibid. 23 One day just at de set ob sun,..When de work war did an done. Ibid. 29, I tell you ob a scrape I had wid a gal. 1848S. C. Foster Old Uncle Ned (song) 3 He had no wool on de top ob de head. 1851― Ring de Banjo (song) 4 Den come again, Susanna, By de gas-light ob de moon; We'll tum de old piano When de banjo's out ob tune. 1882Judge (N.Y.) 30 Dec. 10/3 Money am de root ob all ebil. 1891C. Townsend Negro Minstrels 22 He..drank a gallon ob tangle foot. 1893M. A. Owen Voodoo Tales 168 Hit am er powdeh mek outen de same hef' ob snails an' lizuhds. 1893K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) iii. viii. 288 ‘Any fella longa tribe ob my sister, Queen Victoria, friend longa mine,’ replied the black-fellow. 1895Banks & Smiley in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 256/2 Three bottles sittin' in de road, one ob dem full. 1950R. Ames in Ibid. 492/2 In de fork ob de branch. 1974R. B. Parker Godwulf Manuscript vii. 55 Ah is a member ob de press, baby.
▪ IV. ob, n.5 Genetics.
Brit. |ɒb|, U.S. |ɑb|
Forms: also with capital initial.
[Symbolic abbreviation for obese n. (compare sense 2 s.v.), originally denoting a mutant allele of the gene.]
The obese gene (cf. obese adj. 2). Freq. attrib.
Usu. italicized in technical sources.
1950A. M. Ingalls et al. in Jrnl. Heredity 41 318/2 Obese animals, themselves, are sterile... This approximates the 3 to 1 ratio expected for a recessive gene... It is suggested that this gene be designated by the symbol ob. 1973Diabetologia 9 287 (title) The influence of genetic background on the expression of the obese (Ob) gene in the mouse. [1994Nature 1 Dec. 425/1 ob is a single gene mutation that results in profound obesity and type II diabetes as part of a syndrome that resembles morbid obesity in humans.] 1995Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 10 Aug. 1/2 While a mutant version of the ob gene clearly causes obesity in a strain of inbred mice, no defect in that gene has been found so far in overweight people. 1999Guardian 11 May ii. 14/2 Rats with the ob gene knocked out had no leptin and got very fat. |