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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun obi has 2 senses
- obi(n = noun.group) obeah - (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery; Array is a kind of cult
- obi(n = noun.cognition) obeah - a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas; Array is a kind of cult, cultus, religious cult
CIDE DICTIONARY
obi, n. [Prob. of African origin.].
- A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies. De Quincey.
B. Edwards. [1913 Webster] - A charm or fetich. B. Edwards. [1913 Webster]
obi, n. [Jap.].
A sash, esp. the long belt-like broad sash of soft material worn by women aound the waist when wearing a traditional kimono, and usually having a large bow at the back. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Over this is bound the large sash (obi) which is the chief article of feminine adornment."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
obi, var. of OBEAH.
obi, n. (pl. obis) a broad sash worn with a Japanese kimono.
Etymology
Jap. obi belt
ROGET THESAURUS
obi
Sorcery
N sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, bedevilment, witchcraft, witchery, glamor, fetishism, fetichism, feticism, ghost dance, hoodoo, obi, obiism, voodoo, voodooism, Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism, conjuration, bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism, od force, odylic force, electrobiology, clairvoyance, spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, divination, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic, magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.
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