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Webster 1913 Edition

Obi

O′bi

,

Noun.

[Prob. of African origin.]

1.

A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.

[Written also

obe

and

obeah

.]

De Quincey.

B. Edwards.

2.

A charm or fetich.

[West Indies]

B. Edwards.