OCT 
been manufatured out of Ajau-hou-ha, the Caribean appella- 
tion of the fine tree to which it belongs. See PorosTema. 
COTZINITZAN, in Ornithology. See Oniotus 
Annulatus 
OCOZINGO, i in » Gengraphy, a town of Mexico, in the 
province of Chi es E. of Chiapa dos Efpagnols. 
4 ae the yee a kind of military fhoe, 
or fhort boot, which was made of white tin, and ornamented 
with gold or aie ton the ankles. 
hee the Gree 
omer’s time, ie he thence gives them the appellation of 
Among the Romans, none were allowed 
but the two upper clafles o the people, 
er fuch whofe cftate exceeded 7500 drachma 
bongk dange K Inter, in Geography, a navigable inlet, 
fh dangerous without a pilot, on account of its bars 
ae es of fand, on the coaft of North Carolina, leading 
into Pamlico foun, and out of it into Albemarle found, 
through which all veffels mutt pafs that are bound to Eden- 
ton, Wafhington, Bath, or neree: N. lat. 35° 10’. 
DA A 
OCRI See 
are IM, in Ancient Gusrapy, @ promontory of the 
ifle of Albion, which was undoubtedly the Lizard point in 
Cornwall, siobabl Rhen, a 
y called Ocrinum, from wae 
d as 
CRO S, in One See. Trinca Ochropus. 
RZKA, in Geography, a town of Poland, in the pa- 
latinate of Lublin ; 26 miles N.W. of 
TABIS, in Law. See OcTave 
OCTACHORD, an inftrument or fyftem of mufic, com- 
pofed of eight founds, or feven degrees. The odochord, or 
lyre of Pythagoras, yaaa ae the eight founds ex- 
prefied by thefe letters, E, F, G, a, b, c, d,e: that is to 
fay, two disjun& tetrachords. 
oc A RIDES, formed from ORTHETNELS compofed 
of ‘oxrw, eight, and eros, year, in Chronology, &c. the {pace or 
duration of eight years. 
oc ETERIS, oxlaernpis, in Antiquity, a cycle, or 
term of eight years, atthe end of which three entire lunar 
months were added. This eae was in ufe till Meton, the 
Athenian, reformed the calendar, by finding out the golden 
pana or cycle of nineteeen years. See CALENDAR and 
¥CL 
OCTAETIS, in Natural Hiffory, a name given by Lin- 
seus, and many other authors, to a kind of egies o the 
aftrophyte clafs, the rays of which are eight in number, 
where they firft part from the body, but foon divide i into 
. see OctToco 
OCTAHEDRON, or Ocr rAebED N, in Geometry, 
of the five —— bodies ; confifting of eight — and ear 
See Recutar Body. 
OCTANDRIA, in Botany, the eighth clafs in the Lin- 
nzan artificial fyftem, and fo named from the flowers which 
belong to it having eight fan ip the fame flower with 
‘OCT 
the piftil or pitlils. The orders are four- 1. Monogynia, a 
very various and rich one, containing Epilobium, Fi uchfia, Eri- 
ca, Vi accinium, Daphne, and feveral other interefting plants. 
2. Digynia, a very fmall order ; fee Mornrinera. 3. Tri- 
pk chiefly remarkable for Polygonum, which however is 
not conftant in the number of either ftamens or ftyles 
4. Tetragynia, in which we find two curious Britifh plants 
a Paris and Adoxa. 
CTANT, or OcTILe, in Afronomy, an afpe& or pofition 
of two planets, &c. wherein their places are diftant b 
eighth part of a circle, or 45 degrees from one sree (es 
See Aspect. 
OCTAPLA, formed from oxtw, i ila _d. Something 
with eight rows or columns, a term in the facred peers ufed 
for a ‘kind of ancient Polyglot bible, pee of eight 
columns. 
In the firft column was the Hebrew text, in Hebrew cha- 
raters; in the fecond, the fame text in Greek charaGiers ; 
in the third, the Greek verfion cf Aquila; in the fourth, 
that of Symmachus; in the fifth, the Septuagiat ; in the fixth, 
that of Theodotrion ; in Lief feventh, that called the Jifth 3 the 
laft was that called the /ixth 
Origen was the author of the otapla, as well as of the 
tetrapla and vos 
ARO Creek, in Geography, a river of “Ame- 
rica, in Pennfylvania, which runs into the Sufquehanna, 
N. lat. 39° go’. W. lon e 2. 
OCTATEUCH, in the Sacred Literature, is ufed for 
the eight firft books of the Old Teftament, viz. Genefis, 
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Jofhua, J udges, 
and Ruth. Procopius of Gaza has ten commentaries on 
the Odateuch. 
O VE, the firft and moft perfe& of concords in 
Mufic, in the order of their being generated by the harmo- 
nies of a fingle eet after thé umifon, it is that among all 
= founds of w the ratio is moft fimple. The untfon 
8 in the ratio of cme. the coincidence of the pulfations 
Gacpedieg together ; that is, as 1 to Tr e octave is in 
the double ratio, that is, as 1 to 2. he harmonies of 
the — evel reciprocally agree without exception, which 
does n fhort, thefe two 
blance, that they are often confounded in 
in the harmony even one is indifferently a for the other. 
When a child or a woman feems to be finging in umfon 
with a man, eve are conftantly finging in o€taves. is 
interval is called otave, or eighth, becaufe in afcending dia- 
tonically there are feven degrees and eight different founds. 
The following are the properties ~ fo fingularly dif- 
tinguifh - Hay ve from all other intervals 
e includes within i ae all the primitive 
and original founds fo that — ae eltablifhed a fyftem 
or feri sin the exten 
Pp 
currences in all the re g and REePLicaTE.) 
It is by virtue of this pr ‘operty of the oGtave, that it has 
been called we cay n by the Greeks. See Diapa 
II. The 
SON. 
ave further embraces all the confonances and 
upon the fa 
have the following table: 
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