/oh"tis/ , n.
1. Elisha Graves , 1811-61, U.S. inventor.
2. Harrison Gray , 1837-1917, U.S. army officer and newspaper publisher.
3. James , 1725-83, American lawyer and public official who is supposed to have first used the phrase "Taxation without representation" (brother of Mercy Otis Warren).
4. a male given name.