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time confounded with them in the great 

 genus of monkeys. The common ouistitis, 

 the Simia jacchus, Lin., is found in Para- 

 guay, and nearly every part of South 

 America. 



OCNCE, Lat. uncia, the twelfth part of 

 anything 1. A weight, the twelfth part of 

 a pound troy, and the sixteenth part of a 



pound avoirdupois. 2. An animal of 



the Lynx tribe. 



OORAJJOG'RAPHY, ei/gave;, heaven, and 

 y^ettfM. I describe. A description of the 

 heavens. 



OUROL'OOY, or OCROS'COPY, cyje?, Xfyw, 

 I speak, and irzaxiu, I view. The judg- 

 ment of diseases from an examination of 

 the urine. 



O'cs. In chemistry, a termination for 

 those acids which contain of the acidify- 

 ing principle, as oxygen, one equivalent 

 Jess than the acid of the same elements, 

 whose name ends in ic. Thus, sulphurous 

 acid is O 8 S, and sulphuric acid is O 3 S. 

 See ACID. We also speak of nitrous and 

 nitric oxides : these follow the same 

 law ; but such terms are now being laid 

 aside. 



OUT'CROP. A term used by miners and 

 geologists, to express the exposure at 

 the surface of a stratum, bed, or vein. 



Ori OF TRIM. The state of a ship when 

 she is not properly balanced for sailing. 



OUTLAW'RY. The punishment of a per- 

 son who, being called into law, and law- 

 fully sought, according to the usual forms, 

 contemptuously refuses to appear. All 

 the goods and chattels of the person so 

 outlawed are forfeited to the Crown, and 

 all profits of lands, so long as the outlawry 

 lasts. The man is moreover out of the 

 protection of the law. 



OUT'UCKER. A small piece of timber, 

 made fast to the top of the poop of a ship, 

 and standing outright astern. 



OUT'LIER. 1. One not belonging to a 

 proup, flock, or some specific collection of 



individuals. 2. Among agriculturists, 



an animal which is not taken into the 



fold at night with the others. 3. In 



geology, a detached rock at some distance 

 from the principal mass. 



OCT'POST. In tear, a body of men posted 

 oeyond the main guard. 



ODTEE' (Fr.). In ihefine arts, exagge- 

 rated, overstrained. 



OUTRIO'OER. A strong beam fixed on 

 the side of a ship and projecting from it, 

 in order to secure the musts in the opera- 

 tion of careening, by counteracting the 

 strain it suffers from the effort of the 

 careening tackle ; also a boom, occasion- 

 ally used in the tops to thrust out the 

 treast backstays to windward, to increase 

 the angle of tension, and give additional 

 security to the topmast. 



O^ywoK. The part of a fortification 



most remote from the main fortress of 

 citadel: such are ravelins, or half-moons, 

 tenailles, hornworks, crownworks, &c. 



O'VA, plural of ovum, an egg. In 

 architecture, ornaments in the form of 

 eggs, carved on the contour of the ovolo, 

 or quarter-round, and separated from 

 each by anchors and arrowheads. 



O'VART, Lat. ovarium. 1. That part ol 

 the body where the ovaria are lodged. 

 In the tnammiferous subject ovaria are 

 two flat oval bodies, suspended in the 

 broad ligaments a little below the Fallo- 

 pian tubes. 2. the lower part of the 



pistil of a flower, containing the rudiments 

 of the future plants. 



O'VERSHOT-WHEEL. See WATER- WHEEL. 



O'VERT ACT, Fr. ouvert, open. In law, 

 a manifest act implying criminality. 



OV'ERTCRE, Fr. ouverture, opening. In 

 music, the symphony in the theatres which, 

 precedes the drawing up of the curtain. 



OVA'TION. A Roman custom of grant- 

 ing an inferior kind of triumph to mili- 

 tary leaders. 



OVIP'AROCS, from ovum, an egg, and 

 pario, to produce. An epithet for animals 

 which lay eggs inclosed in a calcareous 

 shell. 



O'vis. The sheep. A genus of well- 

 known ruminant mammiferous animals. 

 The Argali of Siberia (O. Amman, Liu.) 

 inhabits the mountains of Asia, and at- 

 tains the size of the fallow-deer. The 

 Mouflons of America, Africa, and Sar- 

 dinia, belong also to this genus. It is 

 from the Mouflon or the Argali that we 

 are supposed to derive the innumerable 

 races of our woolly animals, which, next 

 to the dog, are most subject to variation. 



OVIPOSITOR, Lat. ovum, and pono, I 

 place. In insects, the instrument by which 

 it deposits its eggs. 



OV'OLO. In architecture, a round mould- 

 ing, whose profile and sweep, in the lor.ic 

 and Composite capitals, is usually the 

 quadrant of a circle or quarter-round. 



O'VO-VIVIP'AROUS, from ovum, an egg, 

 and viviparous (q. v.). A distinctive epi- 

 thet for those animals, as the salamander 

 and the viper, which never lay their 

 eggs, these being hatched within the 

 body of the parent, so that, although 

 originally contained in eggs, the offspring 

 are brought forth in a living state. 



O'VUM (Lat. Egg). In anoitmy,the hody 

 formed by the female in which, after im- 

 pregnation, the development of the foetus 

 takes place. In architecture, the same as 

 ovolo. 



OWL'IXO. The offence of transporting 

 wool or sheep out of England, contrary to 

 statute; so called because usually do:ie 

 during night, when owls are awake ! 



Ox. A name common to all the animals 

 of the genus Bos, Lin., but especiiily -.o 

 the B taurus, Lin., knc -.v.i ly iU :U 



