Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. oter, AS. otor,; akin to D. & G. otter, Icel. otr, Dan. odder, Sw. utter, Lith. udra, Russ, vuidra, Gr. "y`dra water serpent, hydra, Skr. udra, otter, and also to E. water,. √137, 215. See Water, and cf. Hydra
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. otor, oter; cf. Dut. and Ger. otter.
In literature:
You may see Ferndean and Otter, if you can consent to go there, and dwell there as a grave man's friend and wife.
"Girlhood and Womanhood" by Sarah Tytler
Otter hunting is another of the Seminole industries.
"The Seminole Indians of Florida" by Clay MacCauley
I hear them call you Otter, and truly the beast is no better swimmer than you are.
"Under Drake's Flag" by G. A. Henty
Then she went down the path beyond the esplanade, between the sea and marshes, to the mouth of the swift-flowing Otter.
"Happy Pollyooly" by Edgar Jepson
It seems that the otter hunters trapped these foxes for their tails, then let them go.
"A Truthful Woman in Southern California" by Kate Sanborn
A sea-otter may bring more, but I doubt it.
"Canoe Mates in Canada" by St. George Rathborne
It was a magnificent sea-otter, five feet long and very valuable.
"The Literary World Seventh Reader" by Various
She ottered a loud shriek, and fainted away.
"The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)
A quick blow of the bludgeon; the otter never knows how death came.
"Vikings of the Pacific" by Agnes C. Laut
Loki killed the otter with a stone.
"The Mysteries of All Nations" by James Grant
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In poetry:
The Nine-Pillared Cromlech, the Bride-streams,
The Axe, and the Otter
I passed, to the gate of the city
Where Exe scents the sea;
"My Cicely" by Thomas Hardy
Alone the dead trees yielding
To the dull axe Time is wielding,
The shy mink and the otter,
And golden leaves and red,
By countless autumns shed,
Had floated down its water.
"Voyage of the Jettie" by John Greenleaf Whittier
Come rise up full soon, come rise up and go,
The mist's on the hill and the river runs low:
While the dew's on the meadows it's up and away
A-hunting the otter at break o' the day.
"Otter Hunting In Ribblesdale" by Cicely Fox Smith
A health to good fellowship fill we now high,
You true-hearted sportsmen afar and anigh,
Here's many a good chase when the morning is grey,
A-hunting the otter at break o' the day.
"Otter Hunting In Ribblesdale" by Cicely Fox Smith
Through yon little planting, by yonder streamside,
Where Ribble's sweet waters flow softly and wide,
While the dew's on the meadows it's up and away,
A-hunting the otter at break o' the day.
"Otter Hunting In Ribblesdale" by Cicely Fox Smith
No bridge arched thy waters save that where the trees
Stretched their long arms above thee and kissed in the breeze:
No sound save the lapse of the waves on thy shores,
The plunging of otters, the light dip of oars.
"The Bridal of Pennacook" by John Greenleaf Whittier
In news:
Unprecedented number of sea otter deaths along California coast.
Greg gave an example of an annual sea-otter -themed bike tour held on the southern Pacific coast.
Greg advised working with the sea otter s.
Lynne Terry/The Oregonian Sgt Pete Simpson, a Portland police spokesman, cradles a 75-pound bronze sea otter that was stolen in May Hours after asking the public for help, police found the owner.
Sea otter nursed back to health set free Monday.
Sea otter released into Kachemak Bay.
MONTEREY, CA (BRAIN)—Organizers of the Sea Otter Classic announced the addition of cyclocross races to the annual four-day race and outdoor festival next year.
Hearings Set For Ventura, Santa Barbara On Failed Sea Otter Relocation Plan.
The first of two local public hearings on a proposal to officially end a failed program to try to help endangered sea otter s is set to take place this week.
A sea otter that can be easily seen from the sea wall at Depoe Bay.
Since 1995, the population of California sea otter s has plunged to just over 2,000 individuals.
Seattle's sea otter pup finally gets a name.
Video of a sea otter escaping killer whales by jumping onto a boat in Alaska is circling the internet Saturday.
GrindTV.com said the sea otter was able to save herself as the whales continue to circle the boat.
There's a big effort under way to bring sea otter s back to the Oregon Coast, with the Oregon Zoo playing a key role through hosting Sea Otter Awareness Week.
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In science:
The number mj of such trees of size j was studied by Otter (1948), who showed that mj ∼ cρ−j j −5/2 , where ρ < 1, and gave values for both ρ and c.
Random Combinatorial structures:the convergent case
Kschischang, and R. K ¨otter, “A rank-met ric approach to error-control in random network coding,” IEEE Trans. on Inform.
Recursive Code Construction for Random Networks
Otter-Dwass formula for the branching process total progeny.
Critical behavior in inhomogeneous random graphs
Our proofs make crucial use of the Otter-Dwass formula, which describes the distribution of the total progeny of a branching process (see for the special case when the branching process starts with a single individual and for the more general case, and for a simple proof based on induction).
Critical behavior in inhomogeneous random graphs
Unfortunately, the Otter-Dwass formula (Lemma 3.5) is not directly valid for T (2) , and we first establish that, for every k ≥ 0, P(T (2) ≥ k) ≤ P(T ≥ k).
Critical behavior in inhomogeneous random graphs
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