OUT 
mean, weak, mannered, i incotte » &c. &e. 
tion of which terms we at to STYLE, in De efig 
In the produGtion cf a ure, managem cee ae outline 
conftitutes a very effential oad cf the difficulties to be con- 
tended with, both in the arrangement of the compofition, 
and in the completion, for the apparent relief of the objects 
In the firft place, the arrangement of forms or 
oint wherein refide the expreffion and 
it be of the terrific oa with 
nd, or fevere, the d effeét 
allel forms, or  neaily 
oie contrafts ; but if the 
merely agreeable, then lines playfully and 
gracefully combined, are ges ate to produce an appropriate 
bferv the work, 
e effet cutting and difagreeable to the eye ; or too 
cack blended and weakened : in either cafe the great obje& 
of relief is counteraéted. It mutt be the artift’s fteady en- 
deavour to fteer between thefe two difficulties, but how to 
effe& that defidcratum, to acquire the wifhed-for medium, 
depends fo entirely on a nice obfervance of nature, and on 
inherent tafte, that it is quite impoffible to give any pofitive 
rules concer 3 the painters of the Dutch and Flemifh 
{chools have a exemplified i it in il works, to the a 
of which we recommend our rea 
from the fenfe of feeing sere, but only from motion, 
O R n our Ancient Writers, were a fort 
of shave: or highwaymen, on the frontiers of Scotland, 
he rode about to fetch in fuch things as they could lay 
old on. 
OUT-POSTS, in a military fenfe, a body of men pofted 
beyond the grand guard, and {o calied, as being without the 
rounds or limits of the cam 
M, WILLIAM, | in Biography, a learned Enghith 
b born in the 
divine, was a native of 
In 1649 
a and in 1660 that of D. D. 
deaconr ‘of Leicefter, a during the following year he was 
inftalled prebendary of St. Peter’s church in Weftminfter. 
He died in g. He acquired celebrity by his fkill in 
rabbinical learning, as well as by his acquaintance with the 
fathers and the facred {criptures. He was a conftant and 
VoL. XXV. 
OVU 
much admired preacher. As a writer, he is entitled to 
the praife of nervoufnefs, precifion, and accuracy. 
was author of a learned work on 
m 
fh 
mons was publifhed, ea are good scimean of pulpit 
conpeacen Biog. 
OUT-RIDERS, are bailiff errant, eae by fheriffs, 
or their deputies, to fummon people in the remoteft parts of 
their hundreds, to the county or Pundred courts. 
OUT-RIGGER, in Ship Building, a large {par, or ftrong 
beam of timber, of whic h there are feveral projecting from 
the fide of a fhip, to which the maits are red in the act 
of careenin 
Our-RiGGER is alfo a fmall boom, occafionally ufed in poe 
tops to thruft out the breaft-back-flays to windwar 
order to increafe = tenfion, and thereby give additional 
fecurity to the topm 
OUTSHI- FERMEN, in Geography, a town of Little 
Bucharia; 130 miles E. of Cafhgar. 
fete a town of Little Bucharia; 30 miles S. 
of Ca 
OUTWA RD Flanking Angles. See ANGLE 
UT-WORKS, in Forti aera all thofe a made 
withoutfide the ditch of a fortified place, to cover and de- 
end it. See Fortification ees a « Vauban’s method ; 
under the article Military ConsTR 
ut-works, called alfo advanced aa eae works, are 
thofe which not only ferve to cover the body of the place, 
but alfo to keep the enemy at a diftance, and prevent their 
taking advantage of the cavities and elevations ufually found 
in the places about the counterfcarp ; which might ferve 
them either as lodgments, or as eaux, to facilitate the 
their batteries 
ide 
carrying on their trenches, and pla sie 
againft the place. Such are ravelins, tenailles, horn-works, 
queue d’arondes, envelopes, crown-wor moft ufual 
between the 
two baftions, on the flanquant angle of the sie a an 
before the curtain, to cover the gates and bridges 
OUVERT ee OVERTURE. 
OVUM Ancuinum, a name given by many authors to a 
foffil, fuppofed by the vulgar to be the petrified egg of a 
ferpent, but os really like the brontiz and ombriz, {pecies 
of the echini 
This foie have fuppofed to be a bead of glafs, ufed by 
the Druids to impofe upon the vulgar, whom they taught 
to believe that the poffeffor would be fortunate in all his 
saga and = it would a him the favour of the 
See A um Ovu. 
ut Philofop piece: or Chan is a glafs body of an 
oat for, refembling an egg: ufed for the fublimation of 
mercu 
Onn Polypi, in Natural Héfory, a name given. by fome 
a 
the 
ave 
animal, not yet go ee 
being very hi a looking like an abl gave farther 
| e to this error in ‘els knowin 
umphii, the name of a {pecies of porcelain fhell, 
of Oe obleas kind, called an egg, from its fhape, by that 
author. See PorcELAIn Shell. 
4Y OVUTSI, 
