ORI 
upper and greater brown, edged with yellow 3 3 tail rounded. 
The bill is corneous; legs and claw 
US ; Fork-ta rump, 
© mevewaarts Gold-headed wane Black ; cap, 
wing, iar tail-coverts pieaellag. Th 
golden ; bill black ; legs and claws b 
abits America; and is oak veer inches long, but in bulk 
it is about ah fize of a 
O in dronomy, one of the brighteft conftellations 
of the rae fpher and as it cccupies a large 
{pace there, this cit ecun nee may probably have given the 
ancients, and particularly Pindar, boolean to fay that Orion 
onftroufly large fize, which Manilius 
ors ¢ magni pars maxima cceli.’’ 
the ancients than this con- 
2 is mentioned in feveral paflages of the Bible, 
rek. xiii. 10. Amos, v. 5. And both the 
ee ers aul the Vulgate call it Orion, as well as the 
Greeks 
The is formed from the Greek zp, to make water 3 
the ancients eee that it raifed tempets at its rifing o 
and fettin 
e flats in the conftellation Orion, in Ptolemy’s cata- 
oeues, are thirty-eight; in T'ycho’s and Hevelius’s, fixty- 
in the Britannic oss ee See Con- 
STELLAT TION 
ORION, in 1 Mythology, seo a fable that is the ‘molt 
celebrated, and at the fam moft obfcure in antiquity. 
birth of Orion Sle a myftery equally indecent and 
ae ae to be underftood. 
Ae fir letter of his name was a and he was called 
Orion, which Ovid thus expre 
“ Perdidit nies litera prima fonum.”’ 
Homer, who mentions Orion femal fays nothing of 
the able of his birth, which probably was not invented in 
his t It is certain that Orion gala himfelf by his 
eau to the {cience of aftrono which he had learned 
firtt ag attributes Orion’s death “ "hie vealouly of 
Dian 
“ ‘Bo when Aurora fought Orion’s love 
Her } joys difturb’d your blifsful hours above, 
Till in Ortygia, Dian’s winged 
Had pierc’d the haplefs hunter to othe heart.” 
Pope’s Odyff. v. 155. 
Von. XXV. 
ORI 
Paufanias fays, that Orion’s sent was to be feen at Tana- 
gtus in Beeotia; but this was probably merely a cenotaph; 
fince ke was actually seered in Delos, called Ortygia. 
believe, that this fable was the fame with, at leaft a 
copy of, the ftory of ‘Abraham? s entertaining say fines angels, 
who came and foretold to him the birth of - 
iven t» the vie brightedt ftars in the 
conttellation of Orion; and the name of Ja-ob, which fig- 
nifies “ ftrong againft the Tonk ” upon crags of the 
myfterious combat he had with an angel, . ve given 
rife to it. Befides, the Arabians call the vroftellation ‘of 
Orion, “ Algebar,”? or ** Algebao,”’ the ftrong, the giant. 
The Abbé Fourmont has alfo argued that this {tory 1s the 
fame with that of the venerable patriarch. In favour of 
this fentiment, the authors have to allege, that Orion, being 
anagrus, acity of Beeotia, the country where Cadmus 
fe ttled, and having there introduced the reli igion of the 
Phoenicians, hiltory of Abraham, fo pleated in all the 
Eatt, ve been known there 
RION'S Res in Afronomy, a conttellation, called alfo 
Eridanus ; which fe 
ORIPAA, in Cc, a town of Sweden, in the go- 
vernment of Abo; 3 27 miles E. of Abo. 
CoLtumna. See OLUMNA. 
Onis Diforior. See Distortor. 
Oris Speculum. See SpecuLtum. 
ORISI pee a in Biography, an eminent compofer for 
the church, at Rome, in 1770. then ranked fo high 
for the e sie ee as well as {cience, of his ecclefiaftical com- 
sore weed in a. ig s ftyle, that upon any feftival, where- 
ever mae(tro di cappella, and had compofed a mafs, 
there was eee to be a great crowd. 
O » in Geography, a province of Hindooftan, 
bounded on the north by Bahar and Bengal, on the eaft by 
the sai eile circars and the bay of Bengal, on the fouth a 
Golconda, on the weft by Berar. It was formerly a 
kingdom, till reduced by Akbar in 1592, and extended from 
the bay of Bengal to the coaft of Coromandel ; but it is not 
now fo extenfive. Under Sagie ae it yielded a revenue 
of 36 lacks of rupees. The foi at, moift, and fertile, 
and the heat exceflive. Orriffa is notaiually one of the Britith 
provinces, though only a {mall part of it is fubje& to the 
Benga The diftrit's of Midnapour are pof- 
fefled by the Britifh nation; the remainder being in the 
hands ee the Mahrattas, and their tributaries, 
RIST I, or OrnIsTANO, a town ie - ifland of 
Sardinia, fituated on the weft coaft, on a gul which it 
gives name ; the fee of an archbithop ; forifed, ‘it thinly 
inhabited ; 38 miles N.W. of Cagliari. N. lat. 39° 48'. 
E. long. 8° sol, 
OR iSTAL, a river of Mexico, which runs into the bay 
of Hondurse N. lat. 15° 48’. W. long. 86° 
RITES, in Botany, cesitne, a hi dees Pete hei 
Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 10. 189. v. I. 
387.—Clafs and order, Tetrandria Sets Nat Ord. 
Proteaceae, Juli. 
Eff, Petals four, equal, recurved at the fummit. 
Stamens inferted above the middle of the petals, prominent. 
4A Nedctariferous 
