n. [ Native name on the borders of Belgian Congo, possibly the same word as Mpongwe okapo lean. ] A peculiar mammal (Okapia johnstoni) closely related to the giraffe, discovered in the deep forests of Belgian Congo in 1900. It is smaller than an ox, and somewhat like a giraffe, except that the neck is much shorter. Like the giraffe, it has no dewclaws. There is a small prominence on each frontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. A genus of mammals comprising the okapis.
Syn. -- genus Okapia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An endorsement; approval; permission; as, they gave us the okay to go ahead.
Syn. -- OK, okey, okeh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Satifactory; agreeable; pleasant; as, things are okay; he's an okay guy.
Syn. -- all right(predicate), all-right(prenominal), ok, o.k. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. to approve; as, the boss okayed my proposal.
Syn. -- approve, ok, sanction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Turk. okkah, fr. Ar. ūkīyah, wakīyah, prob. fr. Gr. o'yggi`a, o'ygki`a, an ounce, fr. L. uncia. Cf. Ounce a weight. ] 1. A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 23/4 pounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 21/2 pints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from Lorenz Oken, a German naturalist. ] (Min.) A massive and fibrous mineral of a whitish color, chiefly hydrous silicate of lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Ocher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Variant spellings of okay.
Syn. -- OK, okay. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. 1. the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April-June 1945); in savage close-quarter fighting US marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese; considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans.
Syn. -- Okinawa campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]