ODA 
in fome degree, thovgh not fo iad tran{parent in 
water as the oriental. See Gem 
oo Veneris, a name given oy fome to the umbilicus 
marinu 
eesti which 18 
» by ab 
village of ieasraee is at 
port, and is red by 
after fertilifing me vallies, oe itfelf into the fame 
b e bottom of the fort. Between the bay of Ocu- 
mall ports, where the 
heir coud for Guayra, 
= none of them very important. De. 
AZARY, a town of Bengal; 
of Ramgur. 
OCYMOPHYLLON, i in ii See IsNARDIA. 
OCY aye See Ocr 
OCZE, in ee a 2 town “4 fa til Turkey, in 
Moldavia; 44 miles 
NS a » a town of Lithwanie 40 miles S.E. of 
20 miles 
ODA, in the Turhi/b Seragho, fignifies a .clafs, chamber, 
or order. 
The grand fignior’s pages are = into five claffes, or 
chambers, called odas. See Pac 
The firft, which is the ak in dignity, is pag the 
great oda, from the number of perfons that com 
Thefe are the juniors, who are taught to read, enn and 
{peak the languages ; which are, the ‘Turkith for this world; 
the Arabic for paradife; and the Perfian for hell, by reafon 
of the herefy of the people that {peak it. 
The fecond is called the Ji#tle oda; where, from the age of 
fourteen or fifteen years, the youth are trained up to arms, 
and the ftudy of fuch polite learning as the Turks are ac- 
es with; viz. logic, arithmetic, geometry, and a little 
aft 
In pels of thefe chambers is a page of the privy-chamber, 
who fuperintends them, as the prefeéts in the colleges of the 
Jefuits. 
The third chamber, called £ilar-oda, comprehends two 
hundred pages; which, befides their other exercifes, are 
commanded by - kilerdgi-bachi, for the fervice of the 
buttery and fruite 
The fourth pat confitts of twenty-four ; thefe, under the 
khazineda-bachi, take care of the treafure in the grand 
figniar’s a gaentiaal where they never enter with any clothes 
on that have poc 
The fifth is called Va as-oda, %. €. privy chamber, and con- 
fifts of alos pages, attend the emperor’s bed-cham- 
ber fi — o s chamber is called oda bachi, the 
any ‘troublefome dream, to take care he be awaked by on 
of the agas. 
ACHI, or Oppasasst, an officer _ — ant 
foldiery, fas odes t to a ferjeant or corporal a 
, The common foldiers, and janizaries, called I eldachis, after 
haying fered a certain term of years, are always preferred, 
ODE 
and made is peel 3 and of biquelairs, in ee become 
odabachie, 3. ¢. orals of companies, or chiefs of certain 
divifions, whofe number is not fixed; being fometimes ten, 
and fometimes tw 
Their pay is fie doubles fer month, and they are diftin- 
guifhed by a large felt, a foot broad, and above a foot 
long, hanging on the ba ck, with two pisag oftrich feathers. 
ODALIKS, fo called from a word oda, sanebn 
ination $1 o flaves attached to the 
If one 
when t 
tune to difpleafe. 
A » in Geography, a town of Japan, in the 
ifland of apa fituated in the gulf of Jedo; 40 miles 
S.S.W. of Jed 
ODD. See “EVENty, and Foo 
ODDENA, in Geography, a seen Arabia, formerly 
a {plendid city, now in ruins, near T'aa 
DER, a town af Arabia, in 5 province of Yemen ; 
12 miles S. of Wadeij. 
DE, 2 Greek word implying a melody or fong. 
see 
Oda, from the Greek Beg cantus, Songs or fi ging 
in es Ancient Poetry, a fong or hymn; 
proper to be fung, and coupe for that pte ie 
finging being ufually accompanied with fome mutical inflru- 
ment, chiefly the lyre. See Lyric Poetry 
The peculiar and diftingnifhing character of the ode is, 
that it is intended to be fung, or accompanied with mufic ; 
and though this diftin@ion was not iene to any one 
fpecies of poetry, becaufe mufic and poetry were coeval and 
originally always joined together, yet after their ie pbeeey 
and when bards produced compofitions in verfe that were to 
- recited or read, not to be fung, fuch poems as were ie 
figned to be ftill joined with mutic or fon by way of 
diftin@tion, called odes. It is from this crcumiance of the 
ode’s being {uppofed to retain its original u with mufic, 
that we are to deduce the peculiar and EA eres quali- 
ties of this ene of peste x: Mufic and fong naturally add 
and the liberties a is allowed to take beyo 
ond any other 
{pecies of poetry. ence, 
that neglect of regularity, thofe 
e digreffions, and that diforder, which it is fuppofed to admit ; 
and which, indeed, moft lyric poets have not failed fufficiently 
to exemplify in a Sigua The effets of mufic upon 
the mind are c 
€ 
o the former charaéter of th 
or it may defcend to ie latter of the pleafant and the 
gay; and between thefe there is, alfo, a middle ee : 
