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Oundle. Urban dist. and mar- 

 ket town of Northamptonshire, 

 England. On the Nene, 30 m. 

 from Northampton and 13 m. from 

 Peterborough, it has a station on 

 the L. & N.W. Rly. The chief 

 building is the church of S. Peter, 

 a fine old edifice with a lofty spire 

 and some interesting architectural 

 features. The Talbot Inn was 

 built partly from materials brought 

 from Fotheringhay. Brewing is an 

 industry. There is an agricultural 

 trade, and an important horse and 

 cattle fair is held annually. Oundle 

 was a market town before the Nor- 

 man Conquest, and a place. of some 

 importance through the Middle 

 Ages, though it never secured in- 

 corporation. Market day, Thurs. 

 Pop. 2,700. 



Oundle School. English public 

 school. It was founded under the 

 will of Sir W. Laxton, lord mayor 

 of London, who, dying in 1556, 

 left some property in the city of 

 London to the Grocers' Company 

 for the purpose. It was a country 

 grammar school until the 19th 

 century, when, the estates having 

 greatly increased in value, the 

 Grocers' Company began to en- 

 large it, and many new buildings 

 were erected from 1883 onwards. 

 There is now accommodation for 

 500 boys in ten houses. The build- 

 ings include chapel, great hall, and 

 library, and there are 90 acres of 

 playing fields. The foundation 

 also supports another school, the 

 Laxton School. 



Our Boys. Comedy in three acts, 

 by H. J. Byron. It was produced 

 at the Vaudeville Theatre, Lon- 

 don, Jan. 16, 1875, where it had a 

 run of 1,362 performances. The 

 leading part, that of a retired 

 butterman named Perkyn Middle- 

 wick, was played by David James. 



Ourisia. Small genus of peren- 

 nial herbs of the natural order 

 Scrophulariaceae. Natives of S. 

 America and New Zealand, they 

 have large, notched leaves, chiefly 

 springing from the rootstock, and 

 long tubular flowers with acutely 

 lobed mouths. 



Our Mutual Friend. Charles 

 Dickens's thirteenth novel. It was 

 published in monthly parts (May, 

 1864-Nov., 1865), with illustra- 

 tions by Marcus Stone, R.A. Deal- 

 ing with London riverside life and 

 parvenu society, its story is that 

 of John Harmon, who pretends to 

 be dead in order to test the charac- 

 ter of Bella Wilfer, whom his 

 father wished him to marry. The 

 leading characters include Nicode- 

 mus Boffin, the " golden dust- 

 man " ; the wooden-legged ballad- 

 monger Silas Wegg ; the pompous 

 Podsnap ; Eugene Wrayburn, a 

 barrister who designs the fall of 



and finally marries Lizzie Hex- 

 ham, one of Dickens's most success- 

 ful heroines ; the parvenu Veneer- 

 ings and the fortune-hunting 

 Lammles. The story was drama- 

 tised by H. B. Farnie in 1866 under 

 the title of The Golden Dustman. 

 Ouro Preto. Town of Brazil, 

 m Minas Geraes. It occupies the 

 slopes of a mountain, and wheeled 

 traffic is impossible in its Gtreets. 

 It was founded in 1699 and called 

 Villa Rica from gold mines, now 

 practically exhausted. It was the 

 capital of the state until super- 

 seded in 1897 by Bello Horizonte. 

 It contains a school of mines, 

 the oldest theatre in Brazil, and 

 has rly. connexion with Rio de 

 Janeiro. Pop. 14,000. 



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Oundle School, Northamptonshire. Main buildings of the 

 school governed by the Grocers' Company of London 



Ourthe. River of Belgium. 

 Rising E.of Gouvy, it flows through 

 the prov. of Luxembourg, first W. 

 then N., ftnd joins the Mouse near 

 Liege, which was the capital of a 

 French dept. called Ourthe under 

 Napoleon I. The Aisne, Ambleve, 

 and Vesdre are tributaries. Its 

 total length is 103 m., and it is 

 navigable for about 36 m. 



Ourisia. Foliage and flower spike 

 i of the perennial herb 



Ouse. Name of several English 

 rivers. It is a Celtic word meaning 

 water, the same root being in Esk. 

 Ouse. River of Sussex, Eng- 

 land. It rises in the county be- 

 tween Horsham and Cuckfield, and 

 flows mainly S. past Lewes, where 

 it cuts through the S. Downs to 

 the English Channel at Newhaven. 

 Its length is 30 m., of which about 

 25 are navigable for small vessels. 

 Ouse. River of Yorkshire, Eng- 

 land. It is formed by the Ure 

 and the Swale, which unite near 

 Boroughbridge. Thence.as the Ouse, 

 it flows past York, Selby, and Goole 

 to the Trent, with which it unites 

 at Faxfleet, below Goole, to form 

 the Humber. The length is 60 m., 

 and it is navigable to York, 45 m. 

 from its mouth. 

 Its chief tribu- 

 taries are the 

 Nidd, Wharfe, 

 A i r e, Don, and 

 D e r w e n t. See 

 Humber. 



Ouse, GREAT. 

 River of England. 

 It rises near 

 Brackley in the 

 S.W. of North- 

 amptonshire and 

 flows, mainly E., 

 through Bucking- 

 hamshire, B e d- 

 fordshire, Hun- 

 tingdonshire, 

 Cambridgeshire, 

 and Norfolk to the Wash, 2 m. 

 below King's Lynn. Its chief tribu- 

 taries are the Ivel, Cam, Lark, 

 Ouzel, and Little Ouse, and its 

 length is 158 m. It is navigable to 

 Bedford ; other places on its banks 

 include Stony Stratford, Hunting- 

 don, andKing's Lynn. Two artificial 

 channels, called the old and the 

 new Bedford rivers, cut off a large 

 bend of the Ouse between the E. 

 border of Huntingdon and Down- 

 ham Market. The last 3 m. of its 

 course is another artificial channel. 

 It is tidal for 16 m. The extensive 

 drainage system is controlled by a 

 board with headquarters at Cam- 

 bridge. See Ouse's Silent Tide, 

 C. F. Farrar, 1921. 



Outcrop. Geological term ap- 

 plied to the edges of strata which 

 appear at the surface. See Rocks. 

 Outlawry. Exclusion from the 

 protection of the law. It is actually 

 obsolete in civil procedure, and 

 practically obsolete in criminal pro- 

 cedure. It used to take place when 

 anyone wilfully avoided the execu- 

 tion of process in the king's courts. 

 He was civilly dead, his property 

 was forfeited, and he could ac- 

 quire no rights. At one time, 

 he could be killed at sight; but 

 the right of slaying outlaws early 

 passed away. 



