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obi
Part of speech: NounA kind of secret initiation or craft inning the negroes of Africa.
Part of speech: Usage examples "obi":- " Obi was an emigrant, and those emigrants are ginerally so fond of ownin' the soil, that like misers, they carry as much of it about 'em on their parsons, in a common way, as they cleverly can. - "The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete", Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
- One could sit somewhere by the Yenissey or Obi river and fish, and on the ferry there would be nice little convicts, emigrants.... - "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov", Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.
- She had a fine young fellow of the name of Shedden on board; and, besides other passengers, there was an old black woman, who, where she resided, had always been considered as an Obi woman. - "Poor Jack", Frederick Marryat.