obeiant.html - n.
1 a bow, curtsey, or other respectful or submissive gesture (make an obeisance).
2 homage, submission, deference (pay obeisance).

obeisant adj. obeisantly adv. [ME f. OF obeissance (as OBEY)]

obeiant.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To go to the bathroom to relieve oneself by urinating or defecating. * /Ted was hiking in the mountains when suddenly he had to answer the call of nature but since there was no bathroom in the woods, he excused himself and disappeared behind the bushes./

obeiant.html - {v. phr.}, {slang} To go to the bathroom to relieve oneself by urinating or defecating. * /Ted was hiking in the mountains when suddenly he had to answer the call of nature but since there was no bathroom in the woods, he excused himself and disappeared behind the bushes./

obeiant.html - abbr.
(in the UK) Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

obeiant.html - n.
(also obi) a kind of sorcery practised esp. in the West Indies. [W. Afr.]

obeiant.html - n.
1 a West African tree, Triplochiton scleroxylon.
2 the light-coloured timber from this. [Nigerian name]