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Name	Term description
Name OAP	Term description Old age pensioner
Name OBE	Term description Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Name Oeconimus	Term description Steward or manager
Name Oeconimus of St Salvator's College	Term description Steward or manager
Name Of	Term description Indicates a landowner, e.g. John Baxter of Idvies. [See also 'at' and 'in'.]
Name Officer	Term description One employed in an official capacity, often in the Customs or in local administration
Name Officer in the Salt	Term description One employed in an official capacity, often in the Customs or in local administration
Name Oil leather-dresser	Term description One who prepares leather for use
Name Omissa	Term description Items which had been originally omitted from the deceased's estate.
Name Optician	Term description One who tends eyes and makes and sells spectacles, etc.
Name Organist	Term description One who plays the organ
Name Ormond pursevand/ormond-pursuivant	Term description A member of the Lyon court
Name Orraman	Term description A farm odd-job man
Name ORS	Term description Others
Name Oslair/ostler	Term description Innkeeper
Name Ounce	Term description A unit of weight. In Scots Troy weight, an ounce was equivalent to 16 drops (or draps). For more information, see our guide to weights and measures.
Name Oursman	Term description Overseer. One in charge of a factory or worksite
Name Outsight plenishing	Term description Moveable property kept or lying out of doors; it would include livestock and implements like ploughs, but not corn or hay, which were not reckoned as 'plenishings'.
Name Outworker	Term description A person engaged in outdoor work, field work or work away from the shop or factory
Name Overgrowth	Term description Engorgement of the heart.
Name Overlaid	Term description Referring to an infant accidentally smothered while in bed with an adult.
Name Overman/oversman	Term description One in charge of a factory or worksite
Name Overseer	Term description Person in charge of a factory or worksite
Name Oxgang	Term description A measure of land which, like Scottish measures in general, varied from place to place. It was typically about 13 acres.
Name Oye	Term description Oe, grandchild, niece or nephew, descendant