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totle, andthe fentences of Peter Lombard. 
leGed in pe and oe at Paris in two volumes folio. 
Enfield’s Aift. Phil. v 
OC O, in pee Law Writers, denotes a tribute 
which the lord impofed on his vaflals, or tenants, on occafion 
of war, and other exigencies. 
‘ OCCASIONAL Causz, &c. 
ENT, &c 
OCCATION, a term in the ancient hufbandry, by which 
they exprefled what we do by harrowing, though they per- 
formed it with a different inftrument, a kind of rake. With 
the teeth of this inftrument they levelled the greund, and 
broke the clods, and, with the hand, ftrewed the corn over 
this level ground. ‘Then they brought on the plough, and 
ploughed it in; fo that the grain was fown in furrows, as 
we exprefs it, and ufually came up, as we fee it does at this 
time with us, in the fame cafe, in the lower parts only. After 
it had got a few leaves, they went over the ground again 
with the fame inftrument a gee time, to clear away the 
weeds, and move the earth a 
See Causz, ErFrrici- 
among 
a great deal fell pie upon, and among, the young plants, 
daa 7 em; they were ufually obferved 
rofe har arrowing, except in cold 
had arofe ag the more ep ftirring of the ground. Tull’s 
Hufban 
OCCHIO, : in pone Making, the hole of the floor of the 
tower of the le 
8 ra. 
that point of the horizon where the 
fun fets at i: beset into the fign Cancer, when the days 
are longe 
OccipDE 
fun fets, ace entering the 
the days, with us, are a - 
OCCIDE a term chiefly ufed in aria to 
diftinguifh commodities Wome t from the 
America, from hs e brought from the Eaft Indies, cack 
are {aid to be or 
In this ee we vig occidental bezoar. 
OcciDENTAL Pearl. See 
OcciDENTAL Horizon. 
: 
t, Hybernal, say of the horizen where the 
of Capricorn; at which time, 
See Horizon. 
occ 
OCCINIANO, in edi te red a town of France, in the 
department of the Marenge; feven miles S.W. of Cafala. 
Cc ALIS, in Anatomy, an epithet applied to 
the Sgt fituated about the occiput, as an arter ry, vein, 
e, &c 
3 
@ 
Ocosrrraras Mufculus. See Evicrantus. 
— ITIS Os, a bone of the cranium. See Cra- 
OCCIPLTO- Fronrauis, a mufcle of the fcalp. See 
rear 
UT, the back-of the cranium, forming the pro 
Pe ihe immediately above at neck ; or the particular 
bone forming that part of the 
OA, in Geography, a bay onthe §. fide of the ifland 
of St. Domingo, into which fall the rivers Sipicepy and 
Ocoa. It lies of Neybe or Julienne bay, and is 
bounded S.E. by point Satins, and W. by the E. point at 
the mouth of Bya 
Occoa, a cogs r the E. coait of the ifland of aban 
in the Windward ice about 20 miles E. of Gua 
tanamo bay. 
OCCOCHAPPY, or Bear-Creek, a river of Am 
in the Miffifippi territory, which dilcharges ‘eft throne 
the S.W. bank of Tenneflee es ju the Mufcle 
fhoals. From this creek to the navigable il of Mobile 
river, there i is portage of about 50 mile 
NEACHEA Teranns, t two long narrow iflands 
at the head of Roanoke ri river, in al Sere aaa below where 
the Staunton and Dan unite and form that riv 
ULT, fomething fecret, hidden, or iavifible. The 
occult fciences are, magic, mecromancy, cabbala, &c. 
Agrippa has feveral books of fecal philofophy, ea . 
the vaineft, wildeft dreams imaginable : and Fludd n 
lumes of the cabbala, or occult (acaces wrapt ee under 
figures or Hebrew charaGers. 
Weak philofophers, when unable to difcover the caufe 
of an effet, and unwilling to own their ignorance, fay, 
it arifes from an aul virtue, an occult caufe, an occult 
quality. 
Occutr, in Geometry, is ufed for a line that is fcarcely 
perceivable, drawn with the point of the compaffes, or 
black-lead oS 
ccult, or dry lines, are ufed in feveral operations 5 as 
the raifing “of plants, defigns of building, pieces of per- 
{peCtive, &c. They are to be effaced when the work is 
finifhed. 
OCCULTATION, in Aftronomy, the time a ftar or pla- 
net is hid from our fight, by the interpofition of the body 
the moon, or of fome oe planet. See seis 
"Occur ion, Circle of Perpetual. See 
aa a tae in Law, he that firft feizes and takes 
poffeffion of a thing. 
If a tenant hold land, &c. for the term of another’s life, 
and fuch tenant die firtt, without making any eftate of it 5 
he that firft enters to hold that term out, is faid to acquire 
a el eae and is called an Ree by reafon his title 
comes by the firft occupatio 
o if a tenant, for his own life, grant over his eftate to 
ey 5 if the grantee dies ee him, there fhall be an 
occupan 
OCCUPATION, or Occupancy, in the Civil Law, 
denotes the poffeffion of fuch things as at prefent pronerly 
belong to no private perfon, but are capable of being made 
As, by feizing or taking {poils in war; by —s 
things wild by nature, as birds, and beafts of game, &c.; 
L Se things before undifcevered, or loft by their cae 
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OccuPraATION 
