obduct

English

Etymology

See obduce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒbˈdʌkt/

Verb

obduct (third-person singular simple present obducts, present participle obducting, simple past and past participle obducted)

1. (obsolete) To draw over; to cover.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     men are left-handed when ever it happeneth that the Heart and Liver are seated on the left for when the liver is on the right side, yet so obducted and covered with thick skins.

2. (geology) To push over or on top of, such as one tectonic plate being pushed over another.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obduct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)