OLE 
are careful to preferve a few roots to the truncheons; thefe 
are cut off in the {pring after the danger of the froft is over, 
and planted about two feet deep in the ground, covering the 
furface with litter or mulch, to prevent the fun and wind 
from penetrating and drying the ground; when the plants 
have tak root, they are careful to ftir the ground, 
and deftroy the weeds. 
as that which is produced in a leaner foil. 
ground is efteemed the beft for thefe trees, and the oil which 
1s made from the trees growing in that fort of land is much 
finer, and will keep longer than the other. 
the countries where the inhabitants are curious in the 
Oo the 
ave more regar 
produce, than to 
ey t 
and the quantity of oil they will 
their quality. 
years, 
Thefe plants all afford variety among others af the green- 
houfe kind, as well as in other fituations. 
Otea is alfo the name of a ftone defcribed by Ludovicus 
Dulcis, and fome other fuch authors, who attribute great 
virtues to it, and fay it was variegated with feveral colours, 
as yellow, black, white, green, &c. It feems to have been 
{ome one of the common agates, to which their ignorance 
had prompted them to give new name. 
. tian. e was author of ma 
e of Perfian Rofes, a ColleGtion of pleafant Stories, 
i Maxi the Poet 
OLE 
OLEAGINOUS, fomething that partakes of the nature 
of oil; or out of which oil may be expreffed. 
Thus olives, nuts, almonds, &c. are oleaginous fruits, or 
fruits out of which oil is expreffed. 
Pines, firs, &c. are oleaginous woods, yielding refin, tur- 
pentine, &c woods, oleaginous ones burn the beft 
OLEANDER, or Ross-Bay, in Botany. See NERIUM. 
OLEARIUM, in Natural Hiftory, a {pecies of Bucci- 
num.—Alfo, a {pecies of Murex ; which fee. 
- OLEARIUS, a fpecies of Turbo; which fee. 
AM, in Biography, a learned German, 
3, at Afherleben, in Lower Saxony. He 
was for fome time a profeffor 
ingenious 
ufeful Maxims, Shach-Saadi, 
by 
o German ;"’ N. 
& 
LEARIU; FREY, a learned German Lutheran di- 
vine in the feventeenth century, was born at Halle, in 
Oo. oe 
nd became paitor of St. Ulric’s church, in his native city. 
After this he was created doctor of divinity, appointed 
of St : 
. Mary 
{peétor of the Lutheran Gymnafium; and finally 
fuperintendant of the churches in the duchy of Magdeburg 
by the elector of Brandenburg. He died in 1685, at the 
age of eighty-one. He was author of feveral theological 
works, among which were “A Life of Chrift, from the 
feur Evangelifts ;’’ and «An Explication of the Book of 
ob.”” Moreri. 
Ovearius, Goprrey, grandfon of the laft, was born at 
‘Leipfic in the year 1672. When he had completed his 
academical courfe he went to Holland, and from thence to 
England, for farther improvement. Upon his return to 
Leipfic in 1699, he obtamed a profeflorfhip of the Greek 
and Latin languages; an office which he filled with diftin- 
guifhed ability till the year 1708, when he was appointed 
to the theological chair. He obtained other confiderable 
offices, and died in 1715, leaving behind him many works 
that teftify to his induftry and talents; among thefe were 
«An Introdu@tion to the Roman and German Hiftories ;*’ 
a Latin verfion of * The Hiftory of the Apoftles’ Creed,”’ 
from the Englifh of fir Peter King; a Latin verfion of 
“ Stanley’s Hiftory of Philofophy,”’ and feveral theological 
works of confiderable merit. The father of this perfon, 
viz. John Olearius, was born at Halle in 1639; was alfo 
‘diftinguifhed for his literary acquirements, and was one of 
the firft who engaged with Carpzovius, Alberti, and Itti- 
gius 
