ORP 
nicely prepared, when, on aa ee - melted metal ia 
the glafs furnace, it makes it {wel 
The colour it een isa very eleg en and a 
fea-green, or a mixt c » between cen, according to the 
quarnity and degree oF ‘algae. Neri’s Art of Glafs, 
” ORPHAN, a child, or Sars deftitute of father; or 
that has neither father nor 
Hence the Taborites, or ‘followers of Zifca, finding them- 
felves, at his nore en chief or conductor, took the 
2 use of orpha 
ng the Ath nian, = ee whofe fathers had 
loft hee lives j in the fer of their country, — al 
the guardianfhip of the ‘pelemarchus ’ pee was tg pro- 
vide them with a competent maintenance out of the public 
treafury. 
In the city of London there is a court of record efta- 
The lord- 
an orp an 
a writ of ravifbment of ward, if the orphan be taken 
away ; or the mayor and aldermen may imprifon the offender, 
until he produces the infant. If any one, without the con- 
fent of the court of aldermen, marries fuch an orphan under 
the age of twenty-one years, a out of the city, they 
may fine and imprifon him until pai 
Executors and adminiftrators n dying, a 
to exhibit true ee of ses chat ietore the lord. 
mayor and ee n the court of orphans, and give 
a chanibea lain ad Londo on and his fucceflors, 
y ie for the orphan’s part; which if th 
a to do, they may be committed to ‘prifon until they 
oO 
“ 
Cap-.t 
» &c. bongs cs the city of “London, 
i P opriated for 
fi 
efted in them till te age of 
ft 
ried, thei haves thal furvive to the other children ; but after 
the age of twenty-one, it is free from any 0 hanage cuftom, 
and, in cafe of inteftacy, fhall fall = the ftatute of dif. 
tributions. See Custom of Londo: 
Oxruan Lfland, in Geography, an " ifland of America, at 
the mouth of the Penobfcot, containing about 10,000 acres 
of excelent tillage land. 
seg Re fifhing-bank off the S.E. point of 
Chaleur’ S aoa he N.E. coaft of New Brunfwick, on 
which is from 75 ‘6 ra fathoms water. 
ORP 
Orruan’s Jfland, an ifland in lake Ontario, lying off the 
E. fhore of Maryfburg, and near to it, in Traverte bay. 
ORPHANUS, in Natural Hiffory, a name given by fom 
— to a poor fpecies of opal, called by fome pfiude. 
opalus ; it has no other colours befide a milky-white, and 
purplifh-red. This ftone is frequent in Germany, and Hun- 
- ORPHEON; a firinged inftrument, turned with a wheel 
like the vielle, which it very much refem 
RPHE age : fringed inftrument of mufic, {maller 
than the pandora, which it entirely jen in It is 
tuned like the ieee i higheft or firft ftrin 
ORPHEOT STE ae in Aotiguity, perfons 
initiated in the Orphic myfte They affured all that 
were admitted into their fociety of certain felicity after 
death. (See OnpHeEus.) At their i initiation, little elfe was 
ga of them befides an oath of fecrec 
ORPHEWUS, in Grecian Hiffory, and Mythology, i is one of 
the ca ancient and venerable names among the poets and 
muficians of Greece. His reputation was eftablithed as 7 
as the time of the Argonautic oe in which 
himfelf an adventurer : and is y Apollonius Rhodius 
not only to have incited the Argonauts to row by the found 
of his lyre, but to nquifhed and put to filenee the 
Sirens, by the fuperiority of is ftrains. Yet, notwithftand- 
‘Ss ated celebrity he fo long enjoyed, there isa 
r 
ph 
Pibable that it iiss as d wit 
and that writers have attributed to a; 
But eed tha 
colle& all th 
eae in n hit re IntelleGtual have bee ~~ fied 
mining and oe the ie Peat [. ave been 
opinions and writings 
our bard, m he ecards not only as the firft mufician 
and poet x aaomy, but a a great m tho logitt, from 
whom the Greeks derive the "Thracian religious rites and 
myfteries. 
«« It is the opinion,"’ fays he, * of fome eminent philologers 
of later times, that there never was any fuch perfon as Ore 
not y Orpheu Ties granted’ 
that eran Jad enied the eine of fueh : man; there 
feenas 
