OME 
ing thefe ; viz. punto, king, queen, &c. if they be found 
in the ame hand with the former, are alfo reputed as mata- 
dores, and to be allowed, or forfeited for, like the reft ; 
and this as low as the fequence reaches, without inter- 
ruption. 
There are fome pbb in the manner of playing the 
mes he who has fpadille is obliged 
s game ae ever fo bad ; which is called forced 
fpadille : fometimes, when all have paffed, a perfon undertakes 
z 
as eee a uiri he fo m 
are . alt: and five tricks muft be won, otherwife the crite 
is 
vrfie 
If the ombre venture the game without calling in any 
king, this tco is called praying fans prendre 3 in ha cafe 
the other four are all againft him, and he mu n five 
tricks alone, or ss ed "The reft is much the nes as by 
three, mutatis mutandis. 
OmBRE de Soli, in Heraldry, fhadow of the fun, is aes 
the rae is borne in armo as that the eyes, nofe, 
mouth, which at other times are eed, do not genes ; 
and the colouring is thin, fo that the field may be feen 
through it. 
RIA. See Brontia and Ceraun 
OMBROMETOR, a machine to m 
of rain that falls. 
ee 
caf ure the — 
figure of 
it in a groov 
e, whofe capacity, at di ifferent times, muft 
e meafured, and SS fhews the quantity of rain that 
See Rain 
RONE, in Ceo oral: a river of ar ind which 
runs into the Mediterranean, 5 miles S. cf Grefl N 
lat. 43° 47'.—Alfo, a town of Etruria, in the ceatory of 
Sienna, at the mouth of the Ombrone.—Alfo, 
Etruria, which runs into the Arno, 8 miles below Florence. 
OMDARRA, atown of Bengal; 27 miles E.S.E. of 
agore. 
OMD 
AR, a town of Egypt, at the feparation of the 
iles N. f 
3; 7 mi N.W oi Cairo, 
N. lat. 30° 6. E. long. 49° 3'. 
OMEDUNDA, a town of Bengal ; 34 miles N.N.E. 
NA, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
bes 3 25 miles N.N.W. of Navarre. 
OMELET, or Amer, a kind of pancake, or fricaffee 
of eggs, with other ingredients, very ufual in Spain and 
ai 
Triged 
derives the ee rom ec, together, ees ave, to diffolve, 
moifien, mix. = e Mothe le Vayer, fon the French 
ewuf, egg, and me ie 
The forms of aes are various. We meet with farced 
ariver of e 
OME 
omelets, omelets with fugar, omelets of green peas, omelets 
@ la Turq, &c. 
A noted author in this way prefcribes the following one: 
the eggs being beaten, are to be feafoned with falt and pep- 
per, andthen fried in butter made boiling hot: this done, 
gravy isto be poured on, and the whole itrewed with chives 
and parfley, fhred aan ae one fide is fried enough, it 
is to be turned on the o 
LOOR, in “Gesraply, a town of Hindooftan, 
in Travancore ; 6 miles N. of Anjenga. 
O A, a town of Ra fia, in the govern- 
ment of Ekaterinoflav, on the Dnieper ; "60 miles N.E. of 
herfon. 
OMELYSIS, a word ufed by Hippocrates, and others 
of the ancients, to exprefs the meal of barley, crude or rot 
parched. It is recommended, when reduced to the form of 
a poultice, by Solngs in wine and oil, for curing all tumours 
of the tonfils. 
be drank in +o eee. 
date have made 
or flour, and fome for an equal mixture of the m 
ley, linfeed, and fenugreek feed, in equal quantities; in me- 
dicine ufed for horfes. And Coelus Aurelianus ufes it fre- 
quently for a cataplafm made either of meal, or bread, and 
water. 
The primitive and literal fignification of this 
word feems to be, a fign of future events from the lan- 
guage of a perfon fpeaking, without.any intention to pro- 
phefy : this meaning of the word is id sie in the — 
known paflage of Cicero: 
fenfe, in which it is ufed by ancient writers, is ftill more com- 
prehenfive as well as common : in this fenfe, it fading: t 
whole myitery and practice of augu’y, as it wa earned on on 
a eal fyftem by the Greeks and Romans. 
ord omen, in all thefe three fenfes, is applied to 
figns of ae events, drawn from circumftances neither 
SUguaruieue nor very extraordinary or uncommon. The 
the human mind, however, which has led 
os and extraondiaty events were the prefag 
appen ence the word omen, in its molt ex- 
Ne Tis fig snified any portent or pro 
lav 
igy- 
The n fprocelso of the human mind, by which the 
elief of 0 s is generated, ained in a moft clear, 
pee and philofophical a laa in the following pa af 
fage feflor Stewart, in his = ead the Philofophy 
of the nen Mind, p. 346, qua aitio 
«¢ This tendency of the mind . ffociate together events, 
which have been prefented to it nearly at the fame time ; 
although, on the whole, it is attended with infinite advan- 
ightened 
