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two cells, Stigma aca Capfule membranous, not 
burfling. Seed folita 
The fem in this genus is either herbaceous or fomewhat 
fhrubby. —— oppofite. Spikes denfely cluftered, axil 
lary i term oe a bed left and irregular, as well as 
to w it pease nearly a 
2 18a —Stame he : ere s of the calyx 
owny, five-ribbed ; the awn of the lower one eee fo 
very fhort w 
a nea Po rt Teckfon, New South Wale 
edia.—Stamens two. Segments 
dow ie at ibbed; the awn of the lower one longer 
than itfelf. ee oval-oblong, bluntifh ; with a pungent 
int. From the fame —— A 
N. diffufa.—Stamens egments of the 
Fmosths five-ribbed ; awns ines than themfelves. 
se the calyx 
calyx 
Leaves 
NY W 
of the branches epee ed ; witha pungent point. Stem 
diffufe. ree ered b . Brown in the oneal part of 
d. The aves are fearcely half an inch long. 
T; in Geography, a fea-port town of Sweden, 
pleafantly fituated on the coaft of the gulf of Bothnia, in Fin- 
land. Its harbour is commodious, a it has a ccaerg ton 
trade in all kinds of wooden veflels ; 3 32 miles N.W. of 
N. lat. 61° E. long. 21° 20 
NYSTED, or NYESTED, a large but not flourifhing 
town of Denmark, in the ifland of Laland. 
been much reduced by fire. 
Mecklenburg and other provinces of Germany 1s confider. 
able. In this town are the remains of a ftately monaftery, 
built in 1286 ; 3 19 miles S.E. of Nafkew. N. lat. 54° 48'. 
E. long. 11° 45'. 
NYWICHWANNAK, a river of America, being one 
of the branches of the Pifcataqua, 
O. 
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Oo? baal fourteenth letter of the alphabet ; and the fourth 
he Saati callita clofe vowel; becaufe pronounced 
with the mouth fhut. 
Among the Latins, the O bore fo great an affinity to the 
U, that they frequently confounded them ; writing con/ol, 
and pronouncing con/ul. e Gruter’s Infeript 
Thus, alfo, they wrote equom for equum, ie for au- 
— compafcuos, a &e. 
reeks had two O's; wiz omicron, o, and omega, 
w 3 the firft : onounced with the . tip of the lips with a 
fharper found the fecond in ie middle of the mouth, 
with a fuller found, equal to oo inour language. The long 
and fhort pronunciation of ou are equivalent to the two 
— ones; the firft as in Tone the fecond, as in 
"0 is ufually isis long by a fervile a fubjoined, as 
moan ; or by e tnd of the Bh nay Se as bone; when 
thefe vowels are a uted, it is gen 
O, among the — was a ciel letter fignifying 
eleven ; as in the ve 
«©O numerum ie qui nunc undecimus extat.”’ 
a dath was added at the top, as O, it fignified 
eleven ants 
Among the Trith, the letter O, at the beginning of the 
name of a family, is a chara¢ter of dignity, annexed to great 
houfes. Thus, in the hiftory of Ireland, we frequently 
meet withthe O Neals, O Carrols, &c. confiderable houfes 
in that ifland 
Camdea obferves, that it is the cuftom of the lords of 
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Ireland to prefix an O to their names, to diftinguifh them 
fr 
rom eee commonalty 
ufcule O, in "Mu ufics is a note of time, called by us 
bales, by the ical, circle, making what they call 
fe 
tempo perfetto. 
The ancients ufed O as a mark of triple time; from a 
notion that the ternary, or number three, was the moft pers 
fe& of numbers, and el properly expreffed by a cir- 
cle, the moft perfec& gu 
It isnot, ftri@ly fpeaking, theletter O, but the figure of 
acircle ©, or double CO, pa which the modern ancients in 
mufic ufed to exprefs what t call tempo perfetto, or trie 
ple time. Hence the Italians val it ctrcolo. - circle was 
fometimes pointed, and fometimes barred thu 
== or thus, —_ 
But thefe equally fignified a triple time. Broflard. 
The {even antiphones, or alternate hymns of feven verfes, 
&c. fung by the choir in the time of Advent, were — 
called O, from their beginning with fuch an exclam 
Inthe ftatutes of St. Paul’s church in ere dies is 
one chapter, De Faciendo Q. Lib. Stat. MSS. f. 86. 
O is an adverb of calling, or interjeGtion of forrow or 
wifhing. 
Ni, in the ey bad Sack As foon as the fheriff enters 
into, and makes up his accounts for iffues, amerciaments, 
and mean prea ce raGtice is to mark on his head O. at. 
which fignifies, dinar, nift habeat fu ‘ufficientem geen : 
and immediately he ia = king’s debtor, and a debe 
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