OBO 
"The abdominal mufcles concur further in expiration by 
the tranfverfus approximates 
will be bent forwards upon the pelvis. 
if the right and left recti, 2 hasainetaae and obliqui aét to- 
have no concern in it); the trunk is 
mufcles of one fide aat feparately. The 
ata it to the fame fide. 
rally with the recti to fix the fternum; and cet redti at 
aes cms for the fame purpofe; thus, if a perfon lying 
down attempt to jase - head, and bend it forwards, the 
recti beco ~e quite 
The abdominal meee will move the pelvis on the cheft, 
if the latter part be fixed ; and either direétly, or obliquely, 
accordingly as thofe of both fides a& together, or as they 
a@t feparately on one fide. This effe€&t may be obferved in 
climbing, tumbling, &c 
Os.iqui fra icons a name given to fome flender muf- 
cular fibres iu he lar ee 
OxLIQuts ise oa (grand oblique, atloido-axoidien). 
This mufcle is placed at the upper an att of the 
neck, between ae {pinous procefs of the fecond vertebra, and 
rit 5 itis elongated, and nearly 
Arifing 
Its 
two extremities are more or lefs ten 
Its anterior furface covers the fecond 
ck, and the lias artery ; the mufcle 
1s aaa behind by the complexu 
obliquus inferior, by adie the tranfverfle procefs 
of the atlas to the {pinous procefs of the fecond vertebra, ro- 
tates the atlas on the latter bone. In this motion the head is 
carried along with the atlas ; aad the face is subse towards 
the fhoulder of that fide, qn which the mufcle re 
Osxiquus, Kiar ca a Ay sa atloido- one: in 
occiput on thé atlas, and inclines it to one 
Ostiquus ocilt Superior, : 
Osziaues oculi ‘isferi for i two mufcles of the eye. ‘See 
OBLIZ ZESZTI 2 ‘Geography, a town of Walachia ; 
‘40 miles E. of B reft. 
OBLONG, in "Goats fry, “a ‘figure longer than it is broad. 
Thusa relangled parallelogram, whofe fides are unequal, is 
‘ano lony : {6 an ellip fis ‘i is “alfo'’an oblo 
OBN NUNCIATION: Oe ineans in Raion ee, 
See Nungration. 
OBOCZ, in Cengraphy, a town of the duchy of Warfaw 3 
15 miles N.N.W. of Kalifch. 
OBO 
OBODOWKA, a town and fortrefs of Poland, in the 
palatinate of Braclaw ; 28 miles S. of Braclaw. 
E, Ital. a performer on the Hauthois ; which fee. 
OBOIAN, in Geography, a town of - fia, in the go- 
ae of Kirfk; N. lat. 51° ro! long. 35° 54!. 
OISTA, Ital. a performer on the hautbois. 
OBOL ARIA, in Botany, ‘was fo called by Linnzus, 
from obolus, a {mal! avciert coin ; this name being therefore 
equivalent to Money-wort, and copied to the sade plant, 
in allufion to the ovbicular fhape o 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. a a Mia ¥. 3 
tor. Lamarck D Sept v. afs mg onder. Didyma. 
mia i ala Nat. Grd Pius, Linn. Pediculares, 
= 
an Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, in two deep, large, 
rounded fegments. Cor. of one petal; tube inflated, about 
the length = the calyx; limb in four deep, elliptic-oblong, 
rather unequal, entire, {preading fegments, ane fhorter 
than the tube. Svzam. Filaments a awl-fhaped, inierted 
into the tube between ie fegments of the co 
fhorter than the limb, the two neareft rather the longe 
anthers fmall, rowndith. 
comprefied ; ftyle n g h 
amens ; ftigma thickifh, teen, permanent. Peric. Cap- 
fule nearly ovate, comnréfied, fomewhat tumid, of two 
valves oppofite to the partition, and two cells? Seeds nu- 
merous, very minute 
alyx i in two deep rounded fegments. Co- 
rolla four-cleft, nearly equal; tube inflated. Stamens be- 
tween the fegments of the limb. Capfule of two valves, 
— many ‘eds. 
. O. virgin Linn. Sp. Pl. 881. (O. aay 
radice fibrof, fummo caule foliis fubrotundis ; Pluk. Phyt. 
t. 209. f.6 Morif. feé 23.)—Native of 
Virginia and Penn‘ylvania. We received 2 perfect f{pe- 
cimens from the Rev Dr. Muhlenberg, which have enabled 
us to amend the generic charaGer, except what regards 
the capfule being of one or twe complete cells, a peint we 
have not materials to determine. The plant std sae to - 
very little known. Linnzus had no ae men ; Mx hau 
> pafled it over in filence; nor does — or Lamarck, i: 
pear to have feen it, there — no figu the genus in 
the « [lluftrations”’ of the latte Plokenee 8 fal genes a 
tion, copied orifon, 1s ae e root confitts 
of feveral thick’ fibres, and Is ak annual be parafiti- 
cal. Stem sweep fimple, three or four inches hi 
pe coro, 
the dried tate. Clayton defcribes it as of a pale red, and 
he fays the plant flowers in April. 
OBOLATA Terrg, in our Ancient Law Books, is a 
certain quantity of land, which fome authors fix at half an 
acre ; though others make it but half a perch. 
According to Thomafius, the obolus terre contains ten 
feet in length, and five in breadth 
OLLAH, in Geography, 2 a town of Perfia, in the 
province of Irak, on the Tigris. Although this town be 
not large, it is ree and we'l peopled, and its Ghia ea ig 
peculiarly delightful ; 3 near Baffora. 
LUS, in Coinage, an ancient filver money of Athens, 
the fixth part of a drachm; which fee 
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