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342. Thus we have laid before our readers, a, in all characters, but if he performs one well he brief but comprehenfive view of the principles, is deficient in another; and therefore they comrules, chief requifites, and practice of oratory. monly confine themfelves to fuch as beft fuit But after all, it is impoffible to gain a juft and them. The cafe is the fame with an orator, who decent pronunciation of voice and gefture merely thould keep within those bounds which nature from rules, without practice and an imitation of has preferibed. Every one thould endeavour to the best examples. It may also be faid of an know his own powers, and act accordingly; Orator as of a Poet, "nafcitur non fit." But the though, in moft cafes, nature may be much ftudent of this fcience fhould confider his own affifted and improved by art. See Profeffor genius. We seldom find that any actor can excel Ward's Syftem of Oratory.

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Of old fome orator renown'd,
In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence
Flourish'd, fince mute! to fome great caufe ad-
drefs'd,

Stood in himself collected. Milton. -It would be altogether vain and improper, in matters belonging to an orator, to pretend to ftrict demonftration. Wilkins.-The conftant defign of both thefe orators, in all their fpeeches, was to drive fome one particular point, Swift.-I have liftened to an orator of this fpecies, without being able to understand one fingle fentence. Swift.

Both orators so much renown'd, In their own depths of eloquence were drown'd. Dryden. 2. A petitioner. This fenfe is ufed in addrefles to chancery.

ORAWITZA, a river of Hungary, which runs into the Waag, nine miles north of Arva. ORAYOI, a town of New Mexico, 150 miles SW. of Santa Fe.

* (1.) ORB. n. f. [orbe, Fr. orbis, Lat.] 1. Sphere; orbicular body.-A mighty collection of water inclofed in the bowels of the earth conftitutes 'an huge orb in the interior or central parts; upon the furface of which orb of water the terrestrial ftrata are expanded. Woodward. 2, Circular body.

The Trojan chief, who, held at bay from far, On his Vulcanian orb fuftain'd the war. Dryd. 3. Mundane sphere; celestial' body; light of heaven.

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the mundane spheres.-Aftronomers, to folve the phenomena, framed to their conceit eccentrics and epicycles, and a wonderful engine of orbs, though no fuch things were. Bacon.

With fmiling aspect you ferenely move,
In your fifth orb, and rule the realm of love.

7. Period; revolution of time.-
When fatal courfe
Had circled his full orb.
8. Sphere of action.-

Will you again unknit

Dryden.

Milton

Shak.

The churlish knot of all abhorred war, And move in that obedient orb again? 9. It is applied by Milton to the eye, as being luminous and spherical.

A drop ferene hath quench'd their orbs.

Milton. (2.) ORB, in aftronomy, (§ 1, def. 1.), a hollow globe.

(3.) ORB, in tactics (§ 1, def. 2.), is the difpofing of a number of foldiers in a circular form of defence. The orb has been thought of confequence enough to employ the attention of the famous marthal de Puyfegur in his art of war, who prefers this pofition to throw a body of infantry in an open country to refift cavalry, or even a fuperior force of infantry; because it is regular and equally ftrong, and gives an enemy no reafon to expect better fuccefs by attacking one place than another. Cæfar drew his whole army in this form when he fought against Labienus. The whole army of the Gauls were formed into an orb, under the command of Sabinus and Cotta, when fighting against the Romans. This orb was generally formed fix deep.

(4.) ORB, in geography, a river of France, which rifes in the department of Allier, eight miles NW. of Lodeve, and falls into the Mediterranean eight miles below Beziers.

ORBAIS, a town of France, in the department of Aifne, 7 miles S. of Dormans, and 13 SE. of Chateau Thierry.

ORBAISSAŇ, or ≥ a town of France, in the ORBASSAN, S department of the Po, and late Piedmontefe, 6 miles SW. of Turin.

* ORBATION, n. f. [orbatus, Lat.] Privation of parents or children.

(1.) ORBE, a town of Germany, in the circle of the Lower Rhine, and late electorate of Mentz, famed for its falt works; 26 miles E. of Franckfort.

(2.) ORBE2

(2.) ORBE, a river of Switzerland which rifes in Mount Jura, passes Bienne and the lake of Neuchatel, and runs into the Aar, 3 miles W. of Beuren in Berne. It has several cataracts, and a bridge of one arch at ORBE.

(3.) ORBE, a town of Switzerland, in Berne, on the above river, in a very romantic fituation. It has an Infirmary for patients who have diftorted limbs. It is 5 miles SW. of Yverdun, 13 N. of Laufanne, 24 SW. of Friburg, and 40 of Bern. Lon. 6. 43. E. Lat. 46. 49. N.

ORBEC, a town of France, in the dep. of Calvados, 10 miles SE. of Lifieux, and 30 ESE. of Caen.

* ORBED. adj. [from orb.] 1. Round; circular: orbicular

All those sayings will I overfwear,
And all those fwearings keep as true in foul,
As doth that orbed continent the fire,
That fevers day from night.

2. Formed into a circle.

Truth and juftice then,

Will down return to men,
Orb'd in a rainbow.

3. Rounded.

Shak.

Or roll the lucid orbit of an eye;

Or in full joy elaborate a figh. Young. (2.) ORBIT, in aftronomy, is the path of a planet or comet, or the curve that it describes in its revolution round its central body; thus, the earth's orbit is the curve which it describes in its annual course round the fun, and usually called the ECLIPTIC. See ASTRONOMY, Index.

ORBITANIUM, an ancient town of the Samnites. Liv. xxiv. c. 20.

ORBITELLO, a strong town of Etruria, in the Siennefe, but belonging to Naples, according to the Rev. C. Cruttwell. It has feveral forts, and a good harbour, near the mouth of of the Albegna; 58 miles S. by W. of Sienna, and 85 S. of Florence, or 78, as Mr Cruttwell has it. Lon. II. IO. E. Lat. 42. 18. N.

*ORBITY. n. f. [orbus, Latin.] Lofs, or want of parents or children. Bacon.

ORBRE, a river of France, which rifes in the mountains of the Cevennes, waters Beziers, and falls into the Gulf of Lyons, 5 miles below Lyons. (1.) * ORBY. adj. [from orb.] Resembling an

Milton. orb. Not ufed.

The wheels were orb'd with gold. Addison. ORBEGA, a river of Spain, which runs into the Duero, near Zamora.

ORBEIN-MOR-ASSYNT, a high mountain of Scotland, in Sutherlandfhire, in the parish of Affynt.

ORBICULAR. adj. orbiculaire, French; orbiculatus, Latin.) 1. Spherical.

Parted by th' empyreal

unds,

His quadrature from thy orbicular world,

Milton.

2. Circular; approaching to circularity.-Whereas before it was of an orbicular make, they now look as if they were preffed. Guardian.-By a circle I understand not here a perfect geometrical circle, but an orbicular figure, whofe length is equal to its breadth. Newton.

*ORBICULARLY. adv.[from orbicular.] Spherically; circularly.

* ORBICULÁRNESS. n. f. [from orbicular.] The state of being orbicular.

* ORBICULATED. adj. [orbiculatus, Latin.] Moulded into an orb.

ORBIEU, a river of France, which rifes in the dep. of the Eastern Pyrennees, and runs into the Aude, 5 miles NW. of Narbonne.

ORBILIUS PUPILLUS, a grammarian of Beneventum, who was the first inftructor of the Poet Horace. He died in his rooth year.

ORBION, a lake of the French republic, in the inland and department of Corfica, on the E. coaft, 27 miles SE. of Corte.

(1.) ORBIT. . . [orbite, Fr. orbita, Latin.] 1. The line described by the revolution of a pla

net

Suppofe more funs in proper orbits roll'd. Diffolv'd the snows. Blackmore. -Suppofe the earth placed nearer to the fun, and revolve for inftance in the orbit of Mercury; there the whole ocean would even boil with extremity of heat. 2. Small orb. Not proper.

Attend, and you discern it in the fair. Conduct a finger, or reclaim a hair;

It fmote Atrides orby targe. Chapman.
The world was with the spring; and orby

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* ORC. n. f. [orca, Lat, opuya.] A fort of feaAinsworth.

fish.

Milton.

An island salt and bare, The haunt of feals and ores. ORCADES, the Orkney Islands. See ORKNEY. * ORCHAL. n.f. A ftone from which a blue colour is made. Ainsworth.

(1.) ORCHAMPS, a town of France, in the dep. of Jura; 7 miles NE. of Dole, and 9 W. of Quingey.

(2.) ORCHAMPS EN VENNES, a town of France, in the dep. of Doubs, 15 miles E. of Ornans, and 14 NNE. of Pontarlier.

*ORCHANET. n. f. An herb. Ainsworth.

(1.) * ORCHARD. n. f. [either hortyard or vortyard, fays Skinner; ortgeard, Saxon. Junius.] A garden of fruit-trees.-Planting of orchards is very profitable, as well as pleasurable. Bacon.They overcome their riches not by making Baths, orchards, fish pools. Ben Jonfon. -A fair and pleasant dwelling, with the conveniences of gardens and orchards. Fell.

Her private orchards, wall'd on ev'ry fide, To lawless fylvans all accefs deny❜d. Pope. (2.) An ORCHARD, is a garden department, configned entirely to the growth of ftandard fruittrees, for furnishing a large fupply of the moft ufeful kinds of fruit. In the orchard may be planted as ftandards, all forts of apple trees, moft forts of pears and plumbs, and all forts of cherries: which four fpecies are the capital orchard fruits; each comprising numerous valuable varieties. But a complete orchard should also have quinces, medlars, mulberries, fervice-trees, filberts, Spanish nuts, barberries, walnuts, and chefnuts; which two laft are particularly applicable for the boundaries of orchards, to fcreen the other trees from impetuous winds and cold blafts. Sometimes Ppp 2 orchards

orchards confift entirely of apple trees, particularly in the cyder counties, where they are cultivated in very great quantities in large fields, and hedge-rows, for the fruit to make cyder. And fometimes whole orchards of confiderable extent are entirely of cherry-trees, when the fruit is de figned for fale in fome great city. There are great numbers of large cherry orchards in Kent, which is famous for that fort called Kentish cherry, as being generally a great bearer. Others are ftored with all the principal forts of cultivated cherries, from the earliest to the latest kinds. See PRUNUS, N° 4. CERASUS. A general orchard, however, composed of all the above mentioned fruit-trees, fhould confift of a double portion of apple-trees or more, because they are confiderably the moft ufeful fruit, and may be continued for use the year round. The utility of a general orchard, both for private ufe and profit, ftored with the various forts of fruit-trees, must be very great, as well as afford pleasure from the delightful appearance it makes from early spring till late in autumn: In fpring the various trees in bloffom are highly ornamental; in fummer, the pleasure is heightened by obferving the various fruits advancing to perfection; and as the feafon advances, the mature growth of the different species arriving to perfection, in regular fucceffion, from May or June, until the end of October affords delight, as well as great profit.

(3.) ORCHARD, EXTENT, SITUATION, AND SOIL PROPER FOR AN. The proper extent of ground for an orchard must be proportioned, in fome measure, to the extent of land, and the quantity of fruit required either for private ufe or for public fupply; fo that an orchard may be from half an acre to 20 or more in extent. With refpect to the fituation of an orchard, we may obferve very thriving orchards both in low and high fituations, on declivities and plains, in various afpects or exposures, provided the foil is good: but very low damp fituations fhould be avoided as much as the nature of the place will admit; for in very wet foils no fruit trees will profper; but a moderately low fituation, free from copious wet, may be more eligible than an elevated ground, as being lefs expofed to tempeftuous winds. Yet a fituation having a fmall declivity is very defirable, efpecially if its afpect incline towards the E. SE. or S. which are more eligible than a W. afpect; but a N. afpect is the worst of all, unl compenfated by the peculiar good quality of the foil. And as for foil, any common field or pafture, that produces good crops of corn, grafs, or kitchen vegetables, is fuitable for an orchard; if it be of a loamy nature, it will be a particular advantage: any foil, however, of a good quality, not too light and dry, or too heavy, tubborn, or wet, but of a medium nature, of a foft pliant temperature, not lefs than one fpade deep of good staple, will be proper for this purpose.

(4.)ORCHARDS, PREPARATION OF THE GROUND FOR. The preparation of the ground for the reception of trees, is by trenching; or, if for very confiderable orchards, by deep ploughing; but trench-digging, one or two fpades, as the foil will admit, is the most eligible, either wholly or partially, in the places where the lines of trees are Lo fland, a space of fix or eight feet wide, all the

way in each row, especially if it be grafs ground, and intended to be kept in the fward; or if any of the under-crops are defigned to be raised, the ground may be wholly trenched at firft: in either cafe trench the ground in the ufual way to the depth of the natural foil; and if in grafs, turn the fward clean to the bottom of each trench, which, when rotted, will prove an excellent manure. In planting orchards, however, on grafs grounds, fome only dig pits for each tree, capacious enough for the reception of the roots, loofening the bottom well, without the labour of digging any other part of the ground. The ground must be fenced fecurely against cattle, &c. either with à good ditch and hedge, or with a paling fence, as may be moft convenient. See FENCE, 2-67 avi HEDGF, § 1-12.

(5.) ORCHARDS, SEASON, AND METHOD OF PLANTING THE TREES IN. The beft season for planting all the forts of fruit trees is autumn, foon after the fall of the leaf, from about the end of October until December; or in open weather from October until March. Choose principally full standards, with ftraight clean fters, fix feet high; each with a branchy well-formed head, or from 2 or 3, to 4 years growth; and let feveral varieties of each fpecies be chofen, that ripen their fruit at different times, from the earliest to the latest, that there may be a proper fupply of every fort regu larly during the different featons. Of apples and pears in particular, choose a much greater quanti ty of the autumnal and late kinds than of the early forts; but most of all of apples; for the fummer fruit is but fhort duration, only proper for temporary fervice; but the later ripening kinds keep found fome confiderable time for autumnal ufe: and the latest forts that ripen in October, continue in perfection for various ufes all winter, and feveral forts until the feafon of apples return. Having made choice of the proper forts, and marked them, let them be taken up with the utmost care, fo as to preserve all their roots a entire as poffible; and when taken up, prune off any broken or bruifed parts of the roots, and juft tip the ends of the principal 100ts, in general, with the knife on the under fide, with a kind of flope outward. If the trees have been already headed, or fo trained as to have branched out into regular fhoots to form each a proper head, they must be planted with the heads entire, only retrenching or shortening any irregular or ill-placed fhoot that takes an aukward direction, or grows acrofs its neighbours, or fuch as may run cortiderably longer than the reft, &c. The arrangement of the trees must be in rows, each kind feparate, at diftances according to the growth of the different forts; but for the larger growing kinds, fuch as apples, pears, plums, cherries, &c. they fhould ftand from 25 to 30 feet every way alunder, or 40 feet at moft. Each fpecies and its varieties fhould generally be in rows by themselves, the better to fuit their respective modes of growth: though for variety there may be fome rows of apples and pears arranged alternately, as alfo of plums and cherries; and towards the boundaries there may be ranges of leffer growth, as quinces, medlars, filberts, &c, and the outer row of ail may be walnut-trees, and fome chefnuts, fet pret

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ty close to defend the other trees from violent winds. According to the above diftances, pro ceed to stake out the ground for making the holes for the reception of the trees; which if made to range every way, will have a very agreeable effect, and admit the currency of air, and the fun's influence more effectually. In planting very extenfive orchards, fome divide the ground into large fquares of different dimenfions, with intervals of 50 feet between serving both as walks, and for admitting a greater currency of air; in different quarters planting different forts of fruit, as apples in one, pears in another, and plumbs and cherries in others, &c. and thus it may be repeated to as many quarters for each species and its varieties as may be convenient. As to the mode of planting the trees; a wide hole must be dug for each, capacious enough to receive all the roots freely every way without touching the fides. When the holes are all ready, proceed to planting, one tree in each hole, a perfon holding the ftem erect, whilst another trims in the earth, previously break ing it small, and cafting it in equally all about the roots, frequently fhaking the tree to cause the mould to fettle in clofe about all the fmaller roots and fibres, and fo as to raise the tree gradually up, that the crown of the roots may be but two or three inches below the general furface; and when the hole is filled up, tread it gently, firft round the outside, then near the stem of the tree, forming the furface a little hollow; and then if on the top of all is laid fome inverted turf to the width of the holes, forming it with a fort of circular bank, 3 or 4 inches high, it will fupport the tree, and guard the roots from drying winds and fummer's drought: obferving that each tree ftand perfectly upright, and that they range exactly in their proper rows.

ORCHESTICE, in antiquity, a clafs of CYмNASTIC exercises; comprehending, 1. DANCING: 2. Cubifice, or the art of Tumbling and 3. SPHRISTICE, or TENNIS, including all the exercises with Pila or balls.

ORCHESTON ST MARY'S, a town of Wilts, on Salisbury plain, about 9 miles from Salisbury. There is a curious fpecies of grafs found at this place in a meadow belonging to Lord Rivers, at prefent in the poffeffion of a farmer. The meadow is fituated on a fmall brook, is frequently overflowed, and fometimes continues fo a great part of the winter. It bears the greatett burden in a wet season. (See TRITICUM, N° 9.)

ORCHESTRA, in the Grecian theatres, was that part of the profcenium or stage where the chorus ufed to dance. In the middle of it was placed the Aoy or pulpit. The orcheftra was femicircular, and furrounded with feats. In the Roman theatres it made no part of the feena, but anfwered pretty nearly to the pit in our playhouses, being taken up with feats for fenators, magiftrates, veftals, and other persons of distinction. The actors never went down into it. See THEATRE.

* ORCHESTRE. n.. [French; ogxrga.] The place where the musicians are fet at a publick

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the number of guests that were to be admitted at an entertainment; and it also enforced, that, during fupper, which was the chief meal among the Romans, the doors of every house should be left open.

ORCHIES, a town of France, in the dep. of the N. and late prov. of French Flanders; 9 miles SW. of Tournay, and 14 SSE. of Lille. Lon. 3• ' 35. E. Lat. 50. 28. N.

ORCHILLA, or HORCHILLA, an island, or rather a clufter of iflands, in the Caribbean Sea, of a femi-lunar form, feparated from each other by very fhallow inlets. On the E. and W. capes are fome hills, which abound with goats. The N. and E. coafts abound with trees and pasture. The reft is barren. The SW. coaft is perpendicular like a wall. These inlands lie 80 miles N. of Terra Firma, and 160 E. by S. of Curacóa. Lon. 65. 20. W. Lat. 12. o. N.

ORCHIMONT, a town of France, in the department of the Forefts, and ci-devant duchy of Luxemburg, on the Semoy; to miles N. of Sedan.

ORCHIS, FOOL-STONES, or GOAT-STONES, a genus of the diandria order, belonging to the gynandria clafs of plants; and in the natural method giving name to the feventh order, Orchida. Its characters are thefe: It has a single stalk, with a vague fheath, and no empalement; the flower hath five petals, three without and two within ; the nectarium is of one leaf, fixed to the fide of the receptacle, between the divifion of the petals; the upper lip is fhort and erect, the under large, broad, and fpreading; the tube is pendulous, corniform, or like a horn, and prominent behind; it hath two fhort flender ftamina, fitting upon the pointal, with oval erect fummits, fixed to the upper lip of the nectarium; it hath an oblong contorted germen, under the flower, with a fhort ftyle, faftened to the upper lip of the nectarium; the germen afterwards turns to an oblong capsule, with one cell, having three keel-fhaped valves, opening on the three fides, but jointed at top and bottom, filled with fmall feeds like duft. Miller enumerates ro, and Linnæus 33 fpecies. All thofe forts of orchis defcribed by Miller grow wild in feveral parts of England, but on account of the extreme oddnefs and beauty of their flowers, deserve a place in every good garden; and the reafon of their not being cultivated in gardens, proceeds from the difficulty of transplanting them: though this may be easily overcome, where a perfon has an opportunity of marking their roots, in their time of flowering, and letting them remain until their leaves are decayed, when they may be tranfplanted with fafety; for it is the fame with most forts of bulbous or fleshy-rooted plants, which, if transplanted before the leaves decay, feldom live, notwithstanding you preferve a large ball of earth about them; for the extreme parts of their fibres extend to a great depth in the ground, from whence they receive their nourishment, which, if broken or damaged by taking up their roots, feldom thrive after; for though they may sometimes remain alive a year or two, yet they grow weaker until they quite decay; which is alfo the cafe with tulips, fritillarias, and other bulbous roots. But

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if their foil and fituation be adapted to their various forts, they will thrive and continue feveral years, and during their season of flowering will afford as great varieties as any flowers which are at prefent cultivated. The moft remarkable species are the following:

I. ORCHIS LATIFOLIA. See N° 2.

2. ORCHIS MASCULA, malé fool-ftones, hath a root composed of two bulbs, crowned with oblong, broad, spotted leaves; upright-stalks, a foot high; garnished with one or two narrow amplexicaule leaves; and terminated by a long spike of reddish purple flowers, having the petals reflexed backward; a quadrilobed crenated lip to the nectarium, and an obtufe horn. The flowers of this fpecies poffefs a very agreeable odour. This fpecies is the most valuable; although the roots of fome of the palmated forts, particularly of the ORCHIS LATIFOLIA, anfwer almost equally well. See Plate CCXLVII. and CCXLVIII.

3. ORCHIS MILITARIS, or man orchis, hath a double bulbous root, crowned with oblong amplexicaule leaves; erect flower-ftalks, eight or ten inches high; terminated by a loose spike of afhcoloured and reddifh flowers, having confluent petals; a quinquefid, rough spotted lip to the nectarium, and an obtufe horn. The ftructure of the flowers exhibit the figure of a naked man; and are often of different colours in the fame flower, as afh-colour, red, brown, and dark-ftriped.

4 ORCHIS MORIO, or female orchis, hath a double bulbous root, crowned with oblong, ribbed, fpreading leaves; erect flower-ftalks, eight or ten inches high; garnished with a few amplexicaule leaves; and terminated by a short loose fpike of flowers, having connivent petals, a quadrifid crenated lip to the nectarium, and an obtufe horn. All the fpecies are very hardy perennials, with bulbous flashy roots. The flowers appear in May, June, and July, but principally in June: their mode of flowering is univerfally in fpikes, many flowers in each spike; and each flower is composed of 5 petals in 2 feries, and a nectarium. The season for removing them is in the fummer, after they have done flowering, when their leaves and stalks decay: plant them 3 inches deep, and let them remain undisturbed feveral years; for the lefs they are removed, the ftronger they will flower. The roots of all the fpecies have a remarkable resemblance to the scrotum of animals, whence the name. This plant flourishes in various parts of Europe and Afia, and grows in our country fpontaneously, in great abundance. It is affiduously cultivated in the E.; and the root of it forms a confiderable part of the diet of the inhabitants of Turkey, Perfia, and Syria. From it is made the alimentary powder called SALEP; which, prepared from foreign roots, is fold at 58 or 63. per lb. though it might be furnished by our. felves at the 6th part of that price, if we would cultivate this plant. The orchis mafcula is the most valued for this purpose. A dry and not very fertile soil is best adapted to its growth. The propereft time for gathering the roots, is when the feed is formed, and the ftalk is ready to fall; because the new bulb, of which the falep is made, is then arrived at its full maturity,

and may be diftinguifhed from the old one, by a white bud rifing from the top of it, which is the germ of the orchis of the fucceeding year. The culture of the orchis is an object highly deferving of encouragement. And as the root, if introduced into common ufe, would furnish a cheap, wholesome, and moft nutritious article of diet, it would be sufficiently profitable to the farmer. See SALEP.

ORCHOMENIANS, the inhabitants of Orchomenos. See MINYA.

ORCHOMENOS, or 3 ancient cities: 1. in

ORCHOMENUS, Arcadia, to named from a fon of Lycaon: (Paus. ix. 37.) 2. in Bœotia, W. of Lake Copais, called alfo Minycia. 3. and 4. a town and river of Theffaly. Strabo. 5, 6. It was alfo a name of two princes. See MINYA and MINYAS.

ORCI. See ORZI, N° 1. and 2.

ORCIER, a town of France, in the department of the Upper Alps; 9 m. NW. of Embrun. ORCINOVI, or ORCI NUOVO. See ORZI. ORCO, a river of France, in the late Piedmon. tefe, which runs into the Po, near Chivazzo.

(1.) ORCUS, or PLUTO, god of the infernal regions, fo called from opxos, a tomb or fepulchre, or from ogxes an oath by the river Styx. The ancients gave this name alfo to all the divinities of the infernal regions, even to Cerberus. This deity has also been confounded with Charon: he had a temple at Rome.

(2.) ORCUS, a river of Theffaly, which took its rife from the marshes of the Styx, and the waters of which were fo thick that they floated like oil upon the surface of the river Peneus, into which they discharged themselves. This river probably fuggefted to the poets the idea of the infernal abodes, which they denominated Orcus.

ORCYNIA, an ancient town of Cappadocia ; near which Eumenes was defeated by Antigonus. (1.) * ORD. n. f. An edge or sharpness; as an ordhelm, ordbright, &c. and in the Islandisk tongue, ord fignifies a fpear or dart. Gib.-Ord, in old English, fignified beginning; whence probably the proverbial phrafe odds [ords] and ends, for fcraps or remnants, and perhaps orts for wafte provision.

(2.) ORD, in geography, a hill and cape of Scotland, on the SE. extremity of Caithness, the boundary between that county and Sutherland. On its top are relics of an ancient fort. Lon. o. 16. W. of Edin. Lat. 58. 54. N.

* To ORDAIN. v. a. (ordino, Lat. ordonner, Fr.] 1. To appoint; to decree.→

Know the cause why mufick was ordain'd; Was it not to refresh the mind of man? Shak. -Jeroboam ordained a feast. 1 Kings, xii. 32-As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. Ads.-It is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead. A&s, X. 42.—

2.

To fouls opprefs'd and dumb with grief, The gods ordain this kind relief. Waller. The scene of death, and place ordain'd for punishment. Dryden.

My reafon bends to what thy eyes ordain. Prior. To eftablish; to fettle; to inftitute.

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