OT W 
spo of the Ottomans in Europe = place A.D. 
1353. RCHAN, OTHMAN and Tur 
OTT TONE, in Geography, a town of de Ligurian re- 
public ; miles N.E.o enoa 
OTT hier OTZBERG, or Ureberg, 
Darmftadt ; 26 miles N. of Heidelberg. 
OTTUPLA, in the Jtahan Mufic, fignifies odtuple, o 
the meafure of four times: it is marked with a femici 
C; and fometiines thus : = when it is to be played very 
a town of Heffe- 
again : 
o be ottup 
is called by xe Ttalians ottupla é an , thus 
eet eeetee ts 
Jk — | 
Ottupla. Dodecupla. 
oy 
@ 3 a 
— 
Corelli, in the laf movement of his tenth fonata, opera 
terza, very often ufes an 8 for the dodecupla, to fhew, that 
the triple there is changed to common time. 
OTTW Alcona pri in Geography, a town of France, in 
the department of the Sarre, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftria of Sarrebruck ; 13 m miles N. of Sarrebruck. 
1460, and the canton 7288 inhabitants, in 28 com 
OTUBUE, a fmall ifland in the South Pacific ocean, 
near the coaft OF Bolabola. 
OTUGUNGE, a town of Bengal; 24 miles S. of 
Calcutta. 
T , a town of Spain, in the province of Grenada ; 
5 miles S. of 
OTUS, in Oruitbalney; the name of the common horn-owl 
of the fmaller wend in a ba ee different from the great 
horn-owl or eagle-owl. STRIX. 
OTUTUCLA, i in Ga set See Maouna. 
OTWAY, s, in Biography, an eminent writer of 
eh ide in Suffex, was educated 
pet and in 1669 he was entered 
zal 
OUA 
accompanied his troops to the continent ; 
iffipation he returned ver i 
through habits of 
ftate of poverty, 
ther pieces he com 
f 
amifhed, he begged a fhilling of a aur and that 
and was devouring in t 
Johnfon does not give credic to 
e ftory, an n- 
formed that he died of a fever, pert ke his exertions in 
the purfuit of a thief who had robbed one of his friends. 
ory,’’ fays one of his Searles “ affociate 
with the tender fcenes that cele- 
moral qualities to excite that regard which is the only found- 
ation of fober fympathy. Befides the diffolutenefs of man- 
ners difplayed in his life and writings, he was a fhamelefs 
flatterer of the great, and feems to have had no other public 
principle than that of a fervile attachment to authority.” 
The is a ap already mentioned are juftly accounted fome 
of the moft tender and pathetic that the Englith theatre 
of his Orphan can fcarcely be human. 
without a virtuous character excepting the heroine, at all 
times excites the se intereft, and is at t 
popular, and frequently ated in 
refpectable country theatres. 
paint the horrors and vices of popu 
put into the mouth of his revolutionary hero fuch forcible 
declamation againft the corruptions of government, and fuch 
glowing fentiments of patrioti{m, that. it has, occafionally, 
even in our times, been thought unfit for public reprefenta- 
tion. Befides his dramatic works he compofed fome pieces 
of poetry, which, however; have very little merit. The 
lateft edition of Otway’s works is that of the prefent year, 
1813, in four vols. o. In the year 1719 was printed a 
iece afcribed to Otway, but certainly not written by him ; 
it was called ** Heroic Friendfhip,”? ‘That at the time of his 
death he had made fome progrefs in a play, is pretty certain 
from the following oe printed in L’Eftrange’s 
Obfervator, Nov. 26, 1686: ‘* Whereas Mr. Thomas OF 
way, fome time before his death, made four atts of a pla 
whoever can give notice in whofe hands the copy lies, me 
to Mr. Thomas Betterton, or to Mr. William Smith, at the 
Theatre Royal, hall be rewarded for their pains.” Biog. 
Brit. Johnfon’s Lives of the Poets, and nae Brit. 
VA, Eaes, in Natural Hiffory. 
in in the Human Anatomy. See Ferus and GENERA- 
Ov VA, among the ancients, a kind of verfes, wherein the 
verfes were red to the form of ane g 
n Archite@ure, are ornaments in form of eggs, 
ae from each other by anchor 
e Englifh ufually call thefe onan eggs and ane 
Taitead of eggs, the ancients fometimes carved hearts, on 
which occafion it was that they introduced arrows, to fym- 
bolize love. 
OUABASH, in Geography. See Wasasn. 
OUA- 
