The floor is covered with hay, over which they Spread mats. Some of these are furnished with a ftool, and a few blocks of wood, which being fquare, one fide is hollowed into a curve; and thefe they ufe as pillows, and with their apparel they cover themselves. In thefe open dwellings the whole family repose themselves at night... rope itself, one cannot fee more expert filchers than the people of that country." They are extremely lafcivious, even beyond credibility. To fuch a degree do they carry their libidinous excef. fes, that a number of the principal people have formed themselves into a fociety, in which every woman is common to every man. This fociety is named Arreoy, the members of which have meetings from which all others are excluded. At thefe meetings the paffions are excited by a studied courfe of fenfuality, and the coarfest and most brutal pleasures are enjoyed by the whole company. If, however, any of the female members prove with child, unlefs the can procure some man to adopt the child as his own, not all the ftrong affections of a mother can fave the life of the precondemned innocent; but the child as foon as born is fmothered, and the mother is left at liberty to renew her former course of execrable proftitution. Should any man co-operate with a woman in faving the life of a child, they are both excluded for ever from the arreoy, and are confi. dered as man and wife. Both men and women wash their whole bodies three times a-day in running water, and are remarkably cleanly in their clothes. They are most expert fwimmers, being accuftomed to the water from their infancy. Some of thefe people continue a confiderable time under water; and the velocity with which they go down, was very furprifing. "Their countenances (fays Capt. Cook), very remarkably exprefs the abundant good nature which they poffefs, and are entirely free from that favage keen. nefs which marks nations in a barbarous itate. Their peaceable difpofition is evinced from the have vifited them. Inftead of offering to attack them openly or clandeftinely, as has been the cafe with most of the inhabitants of these feas, they have never appeared in the smallest degree hoftile, but on the contrary, like the moft civilized people, have courted an intercourse with their vifitors by bartering, which is the only medium that unites all nations in a fort of friendship." (11.) OTAHEITEE, INHABITANTS OF. The inhabitants of Qtaheitee are a ftout, well made, active, and comely people. The ftature of the men, in general, is from 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 10inch es: the tallest men feen by Captain Wallis meafured 6 feet 3 inches; and Captain Cook, in his 2d voyage, describes O-Too, the king of Otaheitee, to be of that height. They are of a pale brown complexion; in general their hair is black, and finely frizzled; they have black eyes, flat nofes, large mouths, and fine white teeth; the men wear their beards in many fashions; all of them pluck out a great part of it, and have prominent bellies. The women, in general, are much smaller, efpecially thofe of the lower ranks or towtows, which is attributed to their early and promifcuous intercourse, with the men; whilst the better fort, who do not gratify their paffions in the fame unbridled manner, are above the middle ftature of Europeans. Their skin is most delicately smooth and foft; they have no colour in their cheeks; their nofe is generally fomewhat flat, but their eyes are full of expreflion, and their teeth beautifully even... and white. "The women," fays M. de Bougain. ville, "have features not lefs agreeable than the generality of Europeans, and a fymmetry of body and beautiful proportion of limbs, which might vie with any of them. Some have their hair brown, red, or flaxen, in which they are excep-friendly reception all ftrangers have met with who tions to all the natives of Afia, Africa, and America, who have their hair black univerfally; here, in the children of both sexes, it is generally flaxen. The strongest expreffion is painted in the countenances of these people; their walk is graceful, and all their motions are performed with great vigour and eafe." (12.) OTAHEITEE, LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE OF. The language of thefe iflanders is foft and melodious; it abounds with vowels, and the pronunciation of it is easily acquired; but it was found very difficult to teach the natives to pronounce a fingle English word; but Spanish and Italian words ending in a vowel, they pronounced with the greateft cafe. A fufficient acquaintance has not been formed with it to determine whether it is copious or not; but it is totally without in flexion either of nouns or verbs. Few of the nouns have more than one cafe, and few of the verbs have more than one tenfe. It was impoffi. ble to teach the islanders to pronounce the name of their guefts. They called Captain Cook Toote, Mr Hicks, the first lieutenant, Hete, &c. and thus they formed names for almost every man in the hip. (13.) OTAHEITEE, MANNERS AND CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE OF. The Otaheiteaus are very industrious, and friendly in their difpofitions; but like all other nations not fully civilized, their paffions are extremely violent, and they are very fickle. Their propenlity to theft is very great, infomuch, that M. Bougainville fays, " even in Eu (14.) OTAHEITEE, MANUFACTURES AND TOOLS OF. The principal manufacture among the Otaheiteans is their cloth. This is made of the bark of trees, which are of three kinds, viz. the Chinefe mulberry tree, or aouta; the bread-fruit tree, or ooroo; and one that is defcribed by Dr Hawkef. worth as refembling the wild fig tree of the Weft Indies. Of all these the paper mulberry affords the best cloth; what is made from that being both finer, fofter, whiter, and better fuited to take a colour; the ooroo produces cloth much inferior in contexture; and the laft is very coarfe, in colour refembling the darkeft brown paper; but this last is the only kind that withstands water. (See BARK, 3.) They likewife prepare a red dye; which is made by mixing the yellow juice of a small fpecies of fig, which the natives call matee, with the greenish juice of a fort of fern of bindweed, or of feveral other plants, which produce a bright crimfon and this the women rub with their hands, if the piece is to be uniformly of a colour; or they make use of a bamboo reed, if the piece is to be marked or sprinkled into different patterns. Matting is another manufacture; they make finer mats them, having a hole in the middle to put the head through, hangs from the fhoulders to the mid-leg before and behind; another piece, between 4 and 5 yards long, and about one broad, they wrap round the body; this cloth is made like paper, of the macerated fibres of the inner bark spread out and beaten together. Their ornaments are feathers, flowers, pieces of fhell, aud pearls"; "the pearls are worn chiefly by the women. In wet weather they wear matting of different kinds, as their cloth will not bear wetting. (16.) OTAHEITEE, POPULATION OF. Captain Cook was of opinion, that the number of inhabitants on the whole island amounted to 204,000, including women and children. wats than any made in Europe. Rufhes, grafs, the bark of trees, and the leaves of a plant-call ed wharrou, are the materials which they work up for this purpose. Their matting is applied to various ufes: the coarfer kind is employed for fleeping on in the night, or fitting on through the day; the finer fort is converted into garments in rainy weather, their cloth, being foon penetrated by wet. They are very dexterous in making baf. ket and wicker-work: their baskets are of a vaft number of different patterns, many of them exceed ingly neat; and the making them is practifed by both fexes. Instead of hemp, they make ropes and lines of the bark of a tree; and thus they are provided with filhing-nets; the fibres of the cocoa nut furnish them with thread,, with which they faften the different parts of their canoes, &c. The bark of a nettle which grows in the mountains, called orawa, fupplies them with excellent fifhing-lines, capable of holding any kind of fish; and their hooks are made of mother-of-pearl, to which they fix a tuft of hair, made to refemble the tail of a fish. The point is turned inwards. They make allo a kind of feine of a coarfe broad grafs, the blades of which are like flags. Thefe they twift and tie together in a loofe manner, till the net, which is about as wide as a large fack, is from 60 to 80 fathoms long. This they haul in fmooth fhoal water; and its own weight keeps it fo close to the ground that scarcely a fingle fish can escape. They make harpoons of cane, and point them with hard wood; with which they can ftrike more effectually than an European can with, one headed with iron. The tools ufed by the Otaheiteans for all their purpofes are, an adze nade of ftone; a chifel or gouge made of bone, generally the bone of a man's arm between the wrift and elbow; a rafp of coral, and the skin of a fting-ray; alfo coral and fand, as a file or polisher: and with thefe, they fell timber, cleave, and polish it, and hew ftone. The ftone which makes the blade of their adzes is a kind of bafaites, of a grey or blackish colour, not very hard, but of confiderable toughnefs: they are formed of different fizes; fome that are intended for felling, weigh from 7 to 8 lb.; others for carving not above two ounces. With fuch tools they gene. rally take up feveral days in felling a tree; but af ter it is down, and split into planks, they fmooth them very dexterously and expeditiously with their adzes, and can take off a thin coat from a whole plank without miffing a stroke. (15.) OTAHEITEE, PECULIAR CUSTOMS, DRESS AND ORNAMENTS USED IN. The men of confe. quence on the island wear the nails of their fingers long, as a badge of diftinction. The woman always cut their hair fhort round their heads. Both fexes have a cuftom of staining their bodies, which they call TATTOWING; both men and women have the hinder part of their thighs and loins marked very thick with black lines in various forms; these marks are made by striking the teeth of an inftrument fomewhat like a comb just thro' the skin, and rubbing into the punctures a kind of paste made of foot and oil, which leaves an 'inde lible ftain. Both fexes. are gracefully clothed, in a white cloth made of the bark of a fhrub. Their dicfs confifts of two pieces of this cloth; one of (17) OTAHEITEE, PRIESTHOOD OF. The prielthood feems to he hereditary in one family or tribe; and is said to be numerous. Thefe priefts are profeffedly the men of science; but their knowledge is altogether frivolous and useless, for it confifts in being conversant with the names of their different divinities, and such abfurd tra. ditions as have been handed down among them from one generation to another. The cure of their bodies is committed to the priests, and much parade is ufed in their attempts to recover the fick, though their remedies confift of ridiculous ceremonies and enchantments rather than any thing else. The marriages are merely fecular contracts; but no one has a right to perform tattowing except the priests; and this being a cuftom univerfally adopted by the natives, it may be suppofed that the performing it is a very lucrative employment. The males in general undergo a kind of circumcifion, which is likewife the exclufive privilege of the priests to perform. But what moft eftablishes the credit of this order of men is their skill in aftronomy and navigation. (18.) OTAHEITEE, RELIGION OF THE PEOPLE or. As to their notions refpecting the origin of the world, nothing can be more ridiculous. They imagine that the Supreme Deity, befides many female defcendants, has one fon named Tane; and to him they direct their worship, though they do not believe that the good or bad conduct of mankind on earth makes them more or less acceptable to him. They believe the exiftence of the foul after death, and of a greater or less degree of happinefs to be then enjoyed; but they seem to have no conception of a ftate of punishment hereafter. The fhare of happiness they imagine every individual will enjoy in this future ftate, will be affigned to him according to the rank he holds on earth. We are not however told, wherein they suppose the happiness of this future ftate to confist; but it is moft probably a Mohammedan paradife; for these voluptuaries can hardly be fuppofed capable of imagining any pleasure independent of the intercourse of the fexes. On this ifland was seen the figure of a man constructed of basket-work, rudely made, but not ill defigned; it was something more than feven feet high, and rather too bulky in proportion to its height. This wicker skeleton was completely covered with feathers, which were white where the skin was to appear, and black in the parts which it is their cuftom to paint or ftain, as well as upon the head, which was defigned to reprefent hair. The image was called Manioe; brought to the thickness of about an inch, and are afterwards fitted to the boat with the fame exact. nefs that might be expected from an expert joiner. To faften thefe planks together, holes are bored with a piece of bone, fixed into a stick for that purpose. Through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is paffed, so as to hold the planks strongly together. The feams are caulked with dry rushes ; and the whole outfide of the vessel is painted over with a kind of gummy juice, which supplies the place of pitch. Manioe; it was a representation of Mauwe, one of their Eatuas, or gods of the fecond clafs, and was faid to be the only one of the kind in Otaheitee. These people pray at fun-rife and fun-fet. They have alfo a number of fuperftitious practices, to conciliate the influence of evil genii. The morais are used both as burying, grounds and places of worship; they are approached with the moft wonderful expreffions of reverence and humility; and this, because they there worship an invifible being, for whom they entertain the most reverential refpect, although not excited by the hope of reward or the dread of punishment. (19.) OTAHEITEE, SACRIFICES IN. Captain Cook, who had fome reafon to believe that, among the religious cuftoms of this people, human facrifices were fometimes offered up to their deities, went to a morai, or place of worthip, accompanied by Captain Furneaux, having with them a failor who spoke the language tolerably well, and several of the natives. In the morai was a tupapow, a kind of bier, with a fhed erected over it, on which lay a corpfe and fome provifions. Captain Cook then asked if the plaintain were for the Eatua? If they facrificed to the Eatua hogs, dogs, fowls, &c.? To all of which an intelligent native anfwered in the affirmative. He then asked if they facrificed men to the Eatua? He was answered taatoo eno, “ bad men they did; first beating them till they were dead." He then afked if good men were put to death in this manner? His answer was no. Many other questions were put to him; all his anfwers to which feemed to confirm the idea, that men for certain crimes were condemned to be facrificed to the gods, provided they did not poffefs any property which they might give for their redemption. It seems to reft with the high-prieft to fingle out the victims for facrifice; who, when the people are affembled on any folemn occafion, retires alone into the house of their god, and stays there for fome time; when he comes out, he informs the assembly he has seen and converfed with the great god, and that he has asked for a human facrifice; and tells them he has defired fuch a perfon, naming a man prefent, who has probably rendered himself obnoxious to this ghoftly father. The words are no fooner gone out of his mouth, than the devoted wretch is put to death; for his guilt cannot be doubted, after the oracle has pronounced his doom. (20.) OTAHEITEE, VESSELS, BOATS, CANOES, &c, OF. Their boats or canoes are of three different forts. Some are made out of a fingle tree, and hold from two to fix men. These are principally employed in fishing; the others are conftructed of planks very dexterously fewed together; they are of different fizes, and will hold from 10 to 40 men; they generally lafh two of these together, and fet up two mafts between them; or if they are fingle, they have only one in the middle; and in thefe veffels they will fail far beyond the fight of land. The third fort feems to be principally defigned for pleasure. Thefe are very large, but have no fail; and in shape refemble the gondolas of Venice. The plank of which thefe veffels are conftructed, is made by splitting a tree, with the grain, into as many thin pieces as poflible. The boards are (21.) ỔTAHBITEE, WEAPONS OF WAR USED IN. Their weapons are flings, which they use with great dexterity; pikes headed with the skins of fting-rays, and clubs of about fix or seven feet long, made of a very hard wood. Thus armed, they fight with great obftinacy, and give no quarter to man, woman, or child, who happens to fall into their hands during the battle, nor for fome time afterwards, till their paffion fubfides. They have likewife bows and arrows; but the arrows are good for nothing except to bring down a bird, being headed only with ftone, and none of them pointed, They have targets of a femicircular form, made of wicker-work, and plaited strings of the cocoa-nut fibres, covered with gloffy, bluish green feathers belonging to a kind of pigeon, and ornamented with many sharks teeth, arranged in three concentric circles. OTAKOOTAIA, an island in the S. Pacific Ocean, three miles in circumference, discovered by Captain Cook, in 1777. The chief trees were cocoa palms; among which were feen cuckoos, curlews, herons, and great numbers of noddies. Lon. 201. 37. E. Lat. 19. 51. S. OTALGIA, the EAR-ACH. See MEDICINE, Ind. OTANES, one of the feven Perfian lords who confpired against the ufurper Smerdis. He was promoted by Darius over the coaft of Afia Minor; and took Byzantium. See PERSIA. OTCHAKOV, a strong fortified city of Ruffia, in Ekaterinoslaf, at the mouth of the Dnieper, on the coaft of the Black Sea. It is an ancient town, and was founded by a colony of Milefians, who called it OLBIA. It was alfo named from them Miletopolis, and BORYSTHENES from the river. It was a place of great importance to the Turks, who kept a numerous garrison in it, when in their poffeffion; as it afforded a safe harbour for their galleys against the corfairs. But in 1737 it was befieged by the Ruffians, under Count Munich, who, in three days, took it by affault. In 1738, however, the Ruffians evacuated it, and the Turks retained it till 1789, when it was again befieged by a numerous body of Ruffians, under Prince Potemkin; who, after an unsuccessful attempt to take it by ftorm on the ift Sept. opened trenches for a regular fiege on the sth. The Turks defended it with the utmost bravery till the 17th Dec. when, after a moft obftinate conteft, the powder maga zine of the fort was blown up by a fhell, and the city was taken by ftorm; 6000 Turks were killed, and 3000 taken prifoners; while the lofs of the Ruffians was not lefs than 4000. Catherine II. annexed it to her empire, and the Ruffians still retain it. It appears to be the fame with Oczakow; and the facts above quoted from Mr Cruttwell, appear to be more accurate than those of other geographers, geographers, inferted under that article. See Oc. OTCHI-HOTUN, a town of Afia, 150 miles NE. of Cashgur. Lon, 102° E. of Ferro. Lat. 40.46. N. OTEAVANOOA, a large spacious harbour and bay of the Society Iflands, on the SW. coaft of Bolabola. Lon. 151. 43. W. Lat. 16. 30. S. OTELANDS, or OATLANDS, a village of Surry, near Weybridge. It had formerly a royal palace, wherein Henry duke of Gloucefter, 3d fon to king Charles I. was born; and had a deer park, which in the civil wars was by the parliamentarians laid open, and the house, demolished. In 1673 there was a brick wall remaining, which encompaffed ten acres; but there were then small traces of the chief pile, besides the gardener's lodge, wherein was the filk-worm room raised by king James 1.'s queen. It is now a moft magnificent building, and commands a moft extenfive prospect. In the park there was a paddock, where Q Elizabeth ufed to fhoot with a cross-bow. It is now the property of his R. H. the Duke of York, who purchafed it for 43,000l. of the Duke of Newcastle, in 1789. OTFORD, a town of England, in Kent, on the Darent, at the bottom of a hill. In 793 there was a battle at this place between the two Saxon kings, Offa of Mercia and Alrick of Kent, who was killed by Offa; and another in 1016, wherein the Danish king Canute was routed by King Edmund Ironfide. Offa, to atone for the blood he had fhed in that battle, gave this place to Chriftchurch, Canterbury (as the deed fays), in pafcua porcorum, for feeding the archbishop's hogs;" and fo it remained in the archbishop's liberty, till exchanged with King Henry VIII. for other lands. There was a chantry founded at the Ryehouse in this parish. The church was once a chapel to Shoreham. 66 * OTHER. pron. [other, Saxon; autre, French.] 1. Not the fame; not this; different. In this fense it seems an adjective, yet in the plural, when the fubftantive is fuppreffed, it has contrarily to the nature of adjectives a plural termination; as, of last week three days were fair, the others rainy. -Of good actions fome are better than other fome. Hooker. Who dares receive it other? Shak. King Lear. -The difmayed matrons and maidens, fome in their houses, other fome in the churches, with floods of tears and lamentable cries, poured forth their prayers to the Almighty. Knolles-To think, that men live together by no other rules but that of beafts, where the strongest carries. Locke.-No leafes fhall ever be made, other than leases for years not exceeding thirty-one. Swift. 2. Not I, or he, but fome one elfe; in this fenfe it is a fubftantive, and has a genitive and plural.— I fhould cut off the nobles for their lands; Defire bis jewels and this other's house. Shak. -Some others are fo regular in proceeding according to art, as they refpect not the condition of the patient. Bacon. The confufion arifes, when the one will put their fickle into the other's harvest. Lafley--Never be idle, whilst others are in want of any things that your hands can make for them 3. Not the one, not this, but the contrary.-There Scotland and thou did each in other live. Dryd. 5. Something befides.-The learning of Latin being nothing but the learning of words, join as much other real knowledge with it as you can. Locke on Educ. 6. The next. Thy air, Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the firft; A third is like the former. Shak. Macbeth. 7. The third past. Ben Jonfon. Bind my hair up; as 'twas yesterday; No, nor the t' other day. 8. It is fometimes put elliptically for other thing; fomething different.-I can expect no other from thofe that judge by fingle fights and rash measures. Glanville. OTHERA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the tetrandria clafs of plants. They have monopetalous flowers on a double fruit, and the ftyle bifid. *OTHERGATES. adv. [other and gate, for way.] In another manner.-If fir Toby had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did. Shak. *OTHERGUISE. adv. [other and guife. This is often pronounced and fometimes written otherguess.] Of another kind. OTHERWHERE. adv. [other and where.] In other places.-As Chriftians they were of neceffity forced otherwhere to affemble themselves. Hooker. His godlike acts, and his temptations fierce, And former fufferings, otherwhere are found. Milton. * OTHERWHILE. adv. [other and while.] At other times. * OTHERWISE. adv. [other and wife.] 1. In a different manner.-The fame we ought to embrace, whether we have received it by writing or otherwife. Hooker.-They, being therein left each to their own choice, may either do as others do, or elfe other wife, without any breach of duty at all. Hooker.-The evidences for fuch things are not fo infallible, but that there is a poffibility that the things may be other wife. Wilkins. What all others fhould practife, we should scarce know to practise otherwife. Spratt. Thy father was a worthy prince, But heaven thought otherwife. Addifon's Cato 2. By other causes.-Sir John Norris failed in the attempts of Lisborn, and returned with the lofs, by fickness and other wife, of eight thousand men. Raleigh. 5. In other refpects.-The best men other quife are not always the best in regard of fociety. Hooker.-Men feldom confider God any otherwife than in relation to themfelves. Rogers. OTÉIN. See MYTHOLOGY, 41, and ODIN. (3-6.) Orяo, I. II. HII, and IV, emperors Germany. See GERMANY, § 14, 15; and ITALY, § 18, 19, and 26. (7.) OTHO VENIUS. See VENTUS. OTHOMAN, the first emperor of the Turks, from whom the empire has fince been styled the Ottoman empire. See TURKEY. Kenaz, of the tribe of Judah (See ISRAFL, § I. 3.) We are told (Joh. xv. 17. and Judges i. 13.) that he was Caleb's younger brother. But if Caleb and Othniel had been brothers, the latter could not have married his niece Achfaw the daughter of Caleb. The fcripture mentions Kenaz as father to Othniel, and Jephunneh as the father of Caleb. It is therefore fuppofed, that Kenaz and Jephunneh were brothers, and that Othniel and Caleb were coufin-germans, and in this fenfe to be brothers according to the language of fcripture. Thus Achfah being but fecond-coufin in respect of Othniel, he might marry her confiftently with the let ter of the law. The heroifm, by which he obtained Achfah, is recorded in Joshua xv. 16, 17: and the still greater heroifm by which he delivered his country from the oppreflions of CHUSHANRISHATHAIM, A. M. 2599, is recorded in Judges iii. 9-11. Whether he judged Ifrael during the 40 years of peace that followed, is uncertain. (1.) OTHO, a tribune of the people, who, in Cicero's confulfhip, made a regulation to permit the Roman knights at public fpectacles to have the 14 first rows after the feats of the fenators. This was oppofed with virulence by fome, but Cicero ably defended it. (2.) OTHO, M. Salvius, the 8th emperor of Rome, born A. D. 32, of a family descended from the ancient kings of Etruria. He was among the number of Nero's favourites, was raised to the higheft offices of the state, and made governor of Pannonia by the interest of Seneca, who wished to remove him from Rome, left Nero's love for Pop. pæa fhould prove his ruin. After Nero's death, Otho conciliated the favour of Galba the new em. peror; but when Galba refused to adopt him as his fucceffor, he procured his affaffination, and made himself emperor. He was acknowledged by the fenate, but the fudden revolt of Vitellius in Germany rendered his fituation very precarious. Otho obtained 3 victories, but in a general engagement near Brixellum his forces were defeated, and he stabbed himself when all hopes of fuccefs had vanished, in the 37th year of his age, after a reign of about 3 months. The laft moments of Otho's life were those of a philofopher. He comforted his foldiers who lamented his fortune, and expreffed his concern for their safety, when they solicited to pay him the laft friendly offices before he ftabbed himself; and he obferved, that it was better that one man fhould die, than that all fhould be involved in ruin on account of his obftinacy. His nephew was much affected, and feared the anger of the conqueror; but Otho obferved, that Vitel lius would be kind to the relations of Otho, fince, in the time of their greatest enmity, the mother of Vitellius had received every friendly treatment from his hands. He alfo burnt the letters which, by falling into the bands of Vitellius, might provoke his refentment against those who had favoured the cause of an unfortunate general. Thefe noble and humane sentiments in a ma who was the affociate of Nero's fhameful pleasures, and who had stained his hand in the blood of his maf. ter, have appeared surprising, and have paffed for policy, and not the refult of a virtuous and benevolent heart. His father was a favourite of Claudius. OTHONNA, in botany; African Ragsort, a genus of the polygamia neceffaria order, belonging to the fyngenefia class of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 49th order, Compofita. The receptacle is naked; there is almost no pappus; the calyx is monophyllous, multifid, and nearly cylindrical. OTHRYADES, one of the 300 Spartans who fought againft 300 Argives, when those two nations difputed their respective right to Thyreata. Two Argives, Alcinor and Cronius, and Othryades, furvived the battle. The Argives went home to carry the news of their victory; but Othryades, who had been reckoned among the number of the flain on account of his wounds, recovered himself, and carried fome of the fpoils of which he had ftripped the Argives into the camp of his countrymen; and after he had raised a trophy, and had written with his own blood the word vice on his fhield, he killed himself, unwilling to survive the death of his countrymen. OTHRYS, a mountain, or chain of mountains in Theffaly; faid to have been the refidence of the Centaurs. Herodot. vii, 129. l'irg. Æn. vii, 675. OTHUMA, a town of Arabia, in Yemen, & miles NNE. of Mocha. Lon. 43. 57. E. Lat. 1432. N. OTHUS and EPHIALTES, in the mythology, two giants, fons of Neptune by Iphimedia, the wife of the giant Aloeus; who educated them as his own, whence they were called Aloeides. They grew 9 inches every month, and were only 9 years old, when they made war against the gods; but were flain by Apollo and Diana. They built the town of Afera, at the foot of Mount Helicon. OTIBAR, a town of Spain, in Grenada. OTIS, in ornithology, a genus of birds belong. ing to the order of gralle. There are 4 fpecies, principally diftinguished by their colour. One of thefe, OTIS TARDA, the BUSTARD, is the largeft of the British land fowls; the male at a medium weighing 25 lb.; there are inftances of fome very old ones weighing 27: The breadth 9 feet; the length near 4. Befides the fize and difference of colour, the male is diftinguished from the female by a tuft of feathers about 5 inches long on each fide of the lower mandible. Its head and neck are afh-coloured: the back is barred tranfverfely with black and bright ruft-colour: the greater quillfeathers are black: the belly white: the tail is marked with broad red and black bars, and confifts of 20 feathers: the legs are dufky. See Plate CCLXI. The female is about half the fize of the male: the crown of the head is of a deep orange, traversed with black lines; the reft of the head is brown. The lower part of the fore fide of the neck is afh-coloured: in other refpe&ts it refembles. the male, only the colours of the back and wings are far more dull. Thefe birds inhabit most of the open countries of the S. and E. parts of England, from |