OPP 
rown round it, though they are exported from hence. 
The gardens round Oporto are beautiful and pleafant, and 
the plants of the Cape and of New Holland grow in the 
open air with goofeberries, currants, and other fruits of the 
colder countries of Europe, which are not feen round 
Lifbon. 
Th mon people are more fuperftitious, though not 
e fanatic, than elfewher hey are helm a een 
humoure and thefts and ener are uncom 
ces of affaffinations with knives, under the ripfluence of 
cur. The politenefs and friendly 
e ded: their lan- 
sige diminutives to an excefs that is often 
refs fomewhat differs from that of the 
fouthern emenes: ; wooden fhoes being here very common, 
though not found farther towards the fouth. Oporto is 
49 miles N. of Coim mbra. 2 x11, W. long 8° 
rg’. Link’s Travels through Portu 
OPOS, a word ufed by the old atic writers to ex- 
prefs the juices of plants, haere flowing {pontaneoufly, or 
means of incifions, 1t is Hippocrates to exprefs 
g 
o 
UM, « or Possum, i in Zoology. See D1pELpuis. 
OPOTSCHNA, in Geography, a tewn of Bohemia, in 
the circle of Koning ; 15 miles N.E. of Konigin- 
OUN, one of the Navigators’ iflands, in the South 
Pacific ere fituated moft eafterly as well as moft Maal 
of Sahl e group: it is alfo called « Toomanua.” §. lat 
14° 7!. 
. lon we 
OPPA, a ee of Silefia, which runs into the Oder; 
14 miles §.E. of Troppau. 
TOW, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Iglau ; 
14 miles S. of Iglau 
Oreo See Tor 
AN, a ok Vero OF Teal, in the department of Be- 
naco ; 13 miles 
O N, a principal — of Silefia, bounded N. by 
ay and the principalities of Breflau, Oels, and Bace: ; 
E. by Poland; 8. by the ara rig of Ratibor, Jagern- 
dorf, a nd Troppau ; and W. hofe of Neiffle and Brieg. 
The. foil is generally fandy, and or parts are covered with 
large heaths and forefts. It contains 27 towns and a few 
villages.—Alfo, a city of Silefia, and capital of the above- 
mentioned principality, fituated on the Oder, and the fee 
sae bifho fortified after ancient manner, and con- 
ining iate church, and a college, 
which polearicl belonged to ae Jefuits. "The houfes are 
{tly wooden ftru€tures, and the inhabitants are Pers 
Giles 45,m miles S.E. 
N. lat 50° 35'. 
E. long. 17° 58'. 
oil PENAU, a town of Baden; 13 miles E. of Straf. 
38 
of Breflau. 
“OPPENHEIM, a town of —— in ed ese igh 
h 
Tonnerre, and chi ef » in the 
vinifts, but the Lutherans 
heir churches. At this place is a good growth of wine ; 3 
miles S.E. of Mentz. N.- lat. 49° 51’. E. lon 
OPPIAN, in Biogra a Greek poet and grammarian 
Vou xxv ee J - ‘ 
jo 
OPPOSER, Foreien. ge ForEIcn Ofpofer. 
3 
OPP 
was a native of Anarzarba in ae and flourifhed in the 
beginning of the third ceatur 
entitled ‘6 Halieutica,”’ on fthin 
Ritteshufus, Lu ugd. B. 1597; of Schneider, Argent. 1776; 
~ of Bellin de Ballu, Argent. 1785, in two volumes 
octavo 
OPPIDO, in Geography, a town of Naples, in Calabria 
Ultra; the fee of a bifhop ; deftroyed by an earthquake in 
the year 1783; the prefent town is built three miles from 
the former, which contained about 3000 wer aerar 1200 
of whom perithed on that occafion. f the p 
t Geography, a 
town and colony of Africa, in Mau ritania Corfariont 18 where 
the emperor Claudius formed an eftablifhment of veterans, 
It was fituated on the fouthern bank oe = river Chinalap, 
N. of the mountains denominated Zalac 
OPPIDUM har a town of Gallia ay ee be- 
tween etnias Convenarum. tin. 
—Alfo, a town of Africa, = Mauritania Tingitana, be- 
tween "Tremuke a nd Ad Nov 
OPPIETO, in Cae a town of the ifland of Cor. 
N.N.E, of Ajazzo. 
ae in Mein the act of obftruGing or 
= saa ges of the body, by re~ 
fica; eight miles 
OPPIL 
elly. 
Vitcid, roth foods, difficult of digeftion, are oppilative ; 
they do not pafs off well, but flop in the mouth of the 
veflels. 
OPPILATIVE. See Deoprivative. 
OPPONENS Pouiicis, in Anatomy, a mufcle of the 
thumb : it is part of = thenar of Winflow, and the carpo- 
metacarpien of Dum It lies on the firft bone of the 
ao immediately ander the abduCtor, and exte nds from 
thumb into oppofition to the other fingers, as when w 
a fpherical ody in one hand, or, in a {maller oe, hen 
cil, 
we hold 2 pen, penc Cc. 
OPPONENT, a perfon who withftands or oppofes 
another. The ade is chiefly ufed in ee sad _ 
or academic difpu O op- 
pofes a thefis, iH apadak it by his oljeetions, is ‘called op- 
nens, @pponen 
OPPO. 
