OUR 
in form of chefnut fhells ; whence Vitruvius, and others of 
the ancients, call it echinus, chefnut-fhell. 
ong us, it is ufually cut with the reprefentation of 
eggs and anchors, or arrows’ heads, placed alternately; 
whence its Italian name ovelo; Latin, ovum; and French, 
auf; q.d. egg. 
OUPLE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in Dow- 
latabad ; 10 miles E. of Perinda. 
OUR, in Ichthyology, a variety of the Mua edule. 
ur Lady. See Notre Dame. 
Our Lady of the Thiftle. See TuIstLe. 
OURA, in Geography, a town of Portugal, in the pro- 
vince of Tras los Montes; gmiles 5. of Chaves. 
OUR 1N, or Uran Soangus, the name of an imaginary 
fe& of magicians in the ifland Gromboccanore, in the Eatt 
when they can take them. 
O A, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 72 miles 
N. of Dacca. 
OUREM, a town of Portugal, in Eftramadura, feated - 
i iles W 
on a mountain, containing 1800 inhabitants ; 12 miles 
of Thomar. 
OUREOS, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Engia; 14 
miles N W. of Engia. 
OURFA, Roua, or Rouah, a town of Afiatic Tur- 
key, in the province of Diarbekir, anciently called «« Edeffa,”’ 
which fee; watered by acanal from the Euphrates. Many per- 
t 
Antiochia ad Callirrheem. 
Ourfa 1s built upon two hills, and in the valley between 
them, at the S. orner of a fine plain, rendere 
beautiful by the rocky, mountainous parts that furround it : 
it is about three miles in circuit, encompaffed by ancient 
Ss. On the north fide is 
° 
3 
oO 
it is a deep foffe: i 
and has two Corinthian pillars, the capitals of which are ad- 
6 ftones, each about one 
portico belonging to fome large temple. Ac 
dition, the throne of Nimrod ftood on thefe pillars; but it is 
certain that Timur Bec 
Ourfa is the refidence of a pacha, who commands not only 
the greateft part, if not the whcle, of Macedonia, but a 
confiderable tract of country to the weft of it as far as Antab. 
This place carries 
thoroughfare into Perfia. 
here, efpecially that of the yellow kind, for which they 
he Armenian Chriftians, of whom 
e is accnfiderable number, have two churches, one in 
the city and another near it, in the latter of which the 
the tomb of a great faint, whom they call Ibrahim, and who 
was probably Ephraim Syrus, formerly deacon of Edeffa. 
The furrounding country is fertile in corn and fruit. This 
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OUR 
town was firft taken by the Saracens in 1087, retaken by 
the Chriftians in 1097, and feized in 1142 by the Turks, 
who have ever fince retained poffeffion of it ; 80 miles S.W. 
of Diarbekir. N. lat. 36°50’. E. long. 38° 25! 
38° 25!. 
R, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda; 
30 miles N.N.W. of Rachore. 
OURICO, in Zoology. See Hysrrix Prehenfils. 
OURIGUI, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 
Dowlatabad ; 
OURIQ 
lat. 37° 39! . long. 8" 9!. 
OURISIA, in Botany, a name of which we find no ex- 
° 
Pediculares, Jufl. 
{kin. 
‘ alyx deeply five-cleft, rather unequal. Co- 
rolla funnel-fhaped ; limb five-cleft, nearly equal, obtufe. 
Stigm: two-lobed. Capfule of two cells, and two valves ; 
the partitions from the centre of each valve. Seeds with a 
lax tunic-like fkin. 
1. O. ruelloides. (Chelone ruelloides ; Linn. Suppl. 279. 
Willd. Sp. 26.)—Leaves roundifh-ovate, unequally 
renate. Flower-ftalksaxillary, oppofite.— Native of 
Fuego, in the clefts of rocks. Root perennial, creeping, with 
woolly fibres. Stems procumbent, fhort, fmooth. eaves on 
long ere ftalks, ronn arth ovate, b tt i h long, nearly 
{mooth, with one central rib, and two pair of lateral ones, 
2. O. integrifolia. Brown. n. 1.—Leaves nearly ovate, 
Flower-ita.k terminal, moftly folitary. Gathered 
Mr. Brown in Van Diemen’s land. mooth creeping 
rically diftin@. e fe is la 
OURISSIA, in Ornithology, a {pecies of the Trochilus 5 
which fee. 
OURO, in Geography, a river of Africa, which runs into 
the Atlantic, N. lat. 23’ 30’.—Alfo, a river of Afri- 
ca, whichruns into the Indian fea, S. lat. 24° 25’. 
OUROE, a {mall ifland of Denmark, near the coaft of 
Zealand, in the Ifefiord gulf; 4 miles N.E. of Holbeck. 
N. lat. 55° 46' long. 11° 50’. 
OUROLOGY, in Medicine, is the do€trine of difeafes, 
as judged of by the appearances of the urine. 
The changes in the fenfible qualities of the urine, under 
different 
