a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
c.1600, "to pray, to plead," from L. oratus, pp. of orare "pray, plead, speak before a court or assembly" (see orator). The meaning "make a formal speech" emerged c.1860 in Amer.Eng. as a back-formation of oration.