OMB 
days, brought him to his tomb, at the age of fixty-three. 
He refu - to nominate a fucceffor, but appointed fix 
eleGtors to fill the vacant throne. Omar was deeply and 
Gelervedly regretted by the people. 
i 
ch 
raxn : {peaking of the ues of prede- 
ceffor, he fays, “ yet the abftinence and humility of Omar 
ere noc infer to the virtues ubeker ; his food 
; his drink was water; h 
that was in 
among the beggars on the fteps of the mofque of Medina. 
Economy is the fource of liberality, and the increafe of the 
revenue enabled Omar to eftablith a juft and perpetual reward 
for paft and prefent fervices to the faithful. Carelefs of 
his own emolument, he affigned to Abbas, the uncle of the 
prophet, the firft and moft ample allowance of twenty-five 
thoufand drachms or pieces of filver. Five thoufand were 
allotted to each of the aged warriors, the relics of the field 
fought in the firft battles agamft the Greeks 
and Pei fians, and the decreafing pay, as low as fifty pieces of 
filver, was adapted to the refpeCtive merit and feniority of 
the foldiers of Omar. Under his a and that of his 
predeceffor, the conquerors of oa were the trufty fer- 
vants of God and the people: mafs = a public 
oe was confecrated to a aes neces of pea war 3 
nt mixture of juftice and bounty, main ae ed the 
difeipline of the Saracens, and hey united, by a rare felicity, 
the difpatch and the execution of defpotifm, ie the equa al 
and frugal maxims of a republican governmen Univer 
Hitt. Gibbon. 
Omar II., the 13th caliph of the race of the Ommiades, 
fucceeded his coufin, Solyman, in the year 717. He laid 
fiege to Conftantinople, but was forced to raife it, on ac- 
count of a violent ftorm, which deltroyed a great part of his 
fleet. He was poifoned at Emeffa, in Syria, in the year 
e is charaéterifed as having been extremely juft, 
religious, and devout, and as one who — fixed his mind, 
rom his infancy, entirely upon another He had 
; but his uiGeediiky exhaufted all 
ans he had nothing to leave to 
his fucceffors. 
; in Cs ariveron the coaft of Brazil, 
which runs into — Atlantic, and whofe mouth is in S. lat. 
5°, and g. 36° 
ARK, : M4 town of Norway ; 38 miles N.E. of Fre- 
derick‘{tadt. 
SUYOS, a agrees of South America, in the 
overnment of Buen iks of the lake 
‘Titicaca. at it produces little 
‘It has alfo the advan 
living on the borders of the lake, who are ative and induf- 
trious in the profecution of it 
A, af{mall — in the Adriatic, near the coatt of 
European Turkey. t. 43° 5’. E. long. 18° 
MBAY, an land in nan Eaft Indian fea, ca 60 
miles in length from E, to W., and 18in breadth. SG. lat. 
7° 58’. E.long. 125° 7', 
ERGAUM, a town of Hindooftan ; 25 miles W. 
LA, a river of Dalmatia, which runs into the 
driatic, a little N. of Ragufa, forming at its mouth a 
confiderable gulf. 
OMB 
OMBO, a town an Egypt, on the E. coaft of the Nile; 
26 miles N. of Sye 
BRE, a viebrated game at cards ; 
perfons ; Acs generally by 
me of ombre is borrowed he Spaniards, and 
ripe all the phlegm and aes of ‘iar people in the 
in 
played by two, 
three. 
ae or four when the ether five are divided, fo as one 
have two and the other three. 
After the cards are dealt, if none of the parties think 
their hand ftrong enough to attempt for the ftake o r game, 
they all pa/s ; and after fomething put down to the former 
ake, deal over again. If any willattempt for it, he hence- 
ree is called the ombre ; and the other two become leagued 
oo like two partners at whift, to defend it againft 
"Note, ach has the refufal of being ombre, according to 
his aad of fenior ity. 
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The other w 
iy se declin ard, or cards, but 
leaves that to ce others, a is called sive | Vie: prendre: 
if he gains the point, in this latter cafe, he reaps fomewhat 
extraordinary, more than in the firft. 
If ail in either cafe, he is faid tobe beafted : and the 
failure is called a remife, or repuefle ; and if one of the de- 
fenders of the {take win more tricks than he, fuch'perfon is 
faid to win codille, and takes up the ftake the ombre played 
for: and in both cafes, the ombre is to forfeit the value of 
the ftake played for to the board. 
f the ombre win all the nine tricks, it is called winning 
the vole, and he reaps double; and if he attempt it, and 
mifcarry, he {uffers proportionably. 
The overfights and irregularities committed in the courfe 
of the game, are called dcafls, and {ubject the perfons charge- 
able seats to forfeitures. 
to the order and value of the cards at ombre, it is 
be Sie that the ace of A pee called Jpadille, is den 
in 
ny th trump, 
and called manille ; the ace of clubs led haf, the third ; 
and if either of* the red fuits be of that t fuit, 
The “rel in a black fuits are 
nave, feven, fix, five, four, and t 
they follow Xe king, queen, knave, deuce, three, four, 
five, an 
The three fir ft, or principal trumps, are called matadores ; 
they are not obliged to at- 
which have this prleae, that t 
but for want of an- 
when it leads ; 
ply any other card. 
n the hands of the ombre, 1 a cafe he be beaited, he isto for- 
feit for them; or if he gain his point, he is to have a confi- 
deration for them ; but for nothing lefs than three. And it 
mutft be farther ee) that the trumps immediately a 
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