OBE 
the fhadows of gnomons in different latitudes. See Gno- 
IsK, in Grammar, isa charater in form of a dagger 
(t)>. ferving to refer the reader to fome note, or other mat- 
ter, in the margin 
ELUS, in Aniqity, 8 denotes a little line or ftroke, 
like a needle; whence it e oGeAos, which fignifies peed, 
The word is chiefly ufed in ay ns of Origen’s Hexapla ; 
wherein he diftinguifhes, with an afterifk or ftar, the fupple- 
ments he makes to the ee of the Septuagint, where it falls 
fhort of the Hebrew meaning ; and with an obelus or lineola 
(—), thofe a eee the Septuagint had any thing not 
in the Hebre 
St. Jerom lye the obelus was only ufed in thofe places 
where fomething was to be retrenched from the Septuagint, 
as fuperfluous, = = afterifk in thofe that were defective, 
Thefe marks uently occur in ancient manufcripts. 
ots, the one 
and the afterifk is a 
are with four points 
Geography, a town of “Auftria; s fix 
miles E. a E.o gg. 
R, ariver which flows from a lake on the borders of 
Poland and Silefia, and runs into the Oder, four miles S. of 
Zullichan 
BACH, a = of the duchy of Wurzburg; 10 
miles N W. of Kiffing 
RBERG, a ‘yailiwick of Switzerland, peloneme, = 
to the abbey of St. Gall. 
on ERDORF, a town of Bavaria; 32 miles S. of fAugt 
bur 
OBERGESTLEN, a town of Switzerland, inthe Va- 
lais; 48 miles E. of Sio 
OBERHAUSBERCGEN, a town of France, in the 
department of the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a can- 
ton, inthe diftri€t of Strafourg, three miles N.W. of it. 
The place contains 329, and the canton 11,720 inhabitants, 
on aterritory of 120 kiliometres, in 18 communes. 
OBERINGELHEIM, a town of France, in the de- 
partment of Mont Tonnerre, and chief place ofa canton, in 
the diftri€&t of Mayence. The place contains 1658, and the 
canton 10,623 inhabitants, in 18 communes. 
BER a town of the duchy of Baden; 12 
miles E. of Strafburg. N. lat. 48° 33’. E. long. 8° 10’. 
OBERKOTZAU, a town of lal in the princi- 
pality of Bayreuth ; 3 sr > of 
OBERLAND, a provi 
of Prutfia, formerly called 
*¢ Hockerland,”’ fectile and well cultivated. Before Prufha 
was invaded by the Teutonic knights, this eae! could 
furnith for the field 1 1, confifting of horfe 
and foot ; but as the See had exercifed great cruelties 
towards the Chriftians, the Teutonic knights, In 1273, la 
the le ire and too poffeffion o Oo, a terri- 
tory in the duchy of ae lying between the town of 
Seelburg and Lithuan 
OBERMOSCHEL, See Moscue 
it.— 
RNAI, a town of France, in ae artment of 
the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
trict of Barr. lace contains 4391, and the c 
p anto 
I peer inhabitants, on a territory of 110 (isnene. in 11 
communes. 
OBERNBURG, a town of oo in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine; 16 miles armit 
BE a to many, in ‘the county of 
ay eee on the Neckar ; eight ile E. of Schramberg. 
fo, n of Bavaria, in the bifhopric of Bamberg ; 
feven miles 'N of Bamberg. —Alfo, a town of Germany, 
OBJ 
in the county of Henneberg; eight miles §.E. of Meinun. 
en.—Alfo, a town of Bavaria, on the Inn; 12 miles S.S.W, 
of Paffau. 
OBERNHAU, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Erzgebirg ; fix-miles W. of Laaterttein 
OBERNKIRCHEN, a town of Auftria ; eight miles 
W. of ao 
OBERROSLA, a town of Germany, in the princi- 
pality of Culmbach ; 13 miles S. of Hof. 
OBERSDORYF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Chrudim ; 14 miles E.N.E. of Leutmifchl.—Alfo, a town 
of Bavaria ; 62 miles S. of Augfbur Irg. 
E, a lake of Bavaria, one mile S. of Konig 
fee.—Alfo, a jake of Carinthia, one mile W. of Welach. 
BERSTADT, a town of eel in the county of 
Henneberg; feven miles E, . of Meinungen 
OBERSTE See a town of Wurtemberg ; nine 
miles S.E. of Heilbro 
OBERWALD, a a of Switzerland, in the Valais; 
o miles E. of Sion. 
RWELS, or Ozerwoxtz, a town of the duchy 
of Stiria; 24 miles W. of Judenburg. N. lat. 47° 13’. 
E. long. 14°. 
OBESITY, Obsesrras, in Medicine, the flate of a a per- 
for. too much loaded ut a nd flefh, otherwife called cor- 
Aiffifi ippl, 70 ast eae: 
at the ce of 17 miles from its mouth. 
DOS, a town of Portugal, in Eft jy feated 
on ariver which runs into the Adlantic, and for. ay at 
its mouth called «* Lagoa de Obidos.’? Th A wn is de- 
fended by 3 a ftrong a ona rock; 3 38 miles N. of Lifbon 
N. lat. 39° 20’. W. long. 8° 
OBJECT, derived from ocr, to fet before, which is 
compofed of “ob and j jacea, I le againft, in Philofophy, one 
thing = sar or prefented to the mind, by fenfation, 
or by imaginat 
n object is sfoniettiag that affects us by its prefence, that 
moves the e eyey ear, or fome of the organs of fenfe 
or, at leaft, is reprefented to us by the imagination 
The feliccPplitsophen cate obje& to be that about 
which a power, at, or habit, is employed. Thus, good 
the objet of the wie has of the oe fo 
eA is the obje& o ; found, of hearin 
jets are coe sided into next, pro ane, i are 
thofe on which the ror habit is immediately employed ; 
which fe 
in which fenfe alae is the next object of fight. And re- 
e, which are thofe ee perceived by means of the former : 
c, 
Ideas are the immediate oe as of the mind in thinking : 
oe their relations, attributes, &c. are the mediate ob- 
es it appears that = is a fort of fubordination of 
hat a next rd toa 
