OFA 
n the back of ima which produce larve, that are 
ae. fatal to the 
ele 3 body black, with cinereous 
p black band. It inhabits Lap- 
P Wings with a brown band and dots; body 
hairy, tawny-grey; abdomen with three rows of blackith 
{pots. It inhabits "Afia, and depots its eggs on the back 
of the antelepe. 
Downy, yellow ; ha with three tufts 
This is a Siberian 
e bo ne of this Cee is entirely brown. 
It cohabits “South ee 
fkin, on the —- 
tur a. penetrates deeper, and produces an ulcer, which 
frequently cones ata. 
CESYPE ae a kind of fatty mucilage, of the 
ftence 0 ent, of a greyifh colour, an 
fickifh cifagreable frnell, drawn from the greafy wool 
growing on the throats and between the buttocks of 
fheep. 
The word is formed ie the Greek oic, /beep, and on, 
2 putrefyn or Ake the celype i a filthy, and as it 
tter re from 
oil it in water Tet the lotions or 
th kim o 
fatty fubftance, which being irsined aieuen a linen cloth, 
and fet to cool, makes the cefype much ufed externally to 
~ 
the Greek writers 
became 
cu 
OETSKAIA, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the 
government of Irku tik ; 40 miles N. of Irkutfk. 
OETTING, New, a town of ag eight miles 
N.W. of Burkhaafen. N. lat. 48° 12'. E. jon ng. 12° 38/, 
OETTINGEN, or of ile any, 
OETTING, a count 
fituated N. of the Danube, bounded E 
al 
[oe] 
Le i 
_ 
a 
Lutheran religion are equally orofelfed in mie country.— 
Alfo, the capital of the fore-mentioned country, fituated on 
the Wernitz, the feat of the regency and treafury, and con- 
taining a fociety of arts, a grammar-{chool, and an eae 
houfe ; 14 miles S. of Anfpach. N. lat. 48°57’. E. long 
10° 37. 
OEVARA, a town of ee ee in the province 
of Choco; 40 miles N. of Zita 
CEUVRE, Fr. Opera, tal This word, durin 
laft century, and even earlier, was ufually pre 
work of a mufical compofer; as Opera prima of Corelli, 
uinta of Vivaldi, &c. 
the 
h 
s thefe pompous names, by 
which acthors imagined themfelves glorified. Rouffeau. 
OEYRAS, in Retest ih a town of ee in Eftra- 
madura, on the Vagus; eight miles Li 
Oxyras, New, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Angola. 
OFAN NTO, a river of Naples, which ae near Conza, 
and runs into the cong tic; 12 miles W. of Tra 
FARA, of Japan, in the ifland of ‘AGohon 
an capital ae a Creer gale Fida; 100 miles N.W. o 
OFF 
paler a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra; 14 miles 
E. of Aquil 
OFESCA, a town of Serviay on the N. fide of the 
Danube, oppefite Belgrade. 
FF, a nautical term, applyin 
fhip when fhe fails fro 
in 
ng to the movement of a 
om the fhore towards the fea. When 
by one board fhe 
the fhore, and by the Pei more to- 
thet is faid to ftand of and on th 
F of a canal, is the bank I ca ( Plate I. 
Canals, fig. 5-) w which is on the contrary fide of the canal 
from the towing-path /c.; and off/lope is the fide LI, that 
is oppofite to Je. 
FFA, in Bingraphy, king of the Mercians, one of the 
Saxon princes of the heptarchy, whofe power and eee 
have rendered them worthy o commemoration. He 
ceeded to the throne by the general confent of the pe cople: 
after a fuccefsful infurreGtion againft 
in 755. e ex- 
i was not to be reftrained 
e war upon Lothaire, 
w : aad 
king of Kent, and Ken aan kin 
g of Weflex he 
former he defeated in a bloody battle at a village 
near Seven-Oaks, and reduced his kingdom a ftate o 
€ the nupti 
and feftivity of thefe entertainments, ioe was feize 
and fecretly beheaded: a ough 
uvefts, 
ffa caufed to be dug that dyke, which {till 
extending the mouth o t ee. Offa, 
by his various fuccefles, w become the moft potent 
prince in the was even refpeCted for his power 
nominated the adoptive, than pa ieee fon of 
erefy was condemned in the cil . bares held in 
794, confifting of 300 bifhops. * h,” fay ume, 
‘ were the queftions wh oad in rede » and 
pay * 
which ‘city was at that time his principal refidence. He 
pretended to have been directed by a vifion to the reliques hee 
t 
