OWL 
ter to the labourers ; ei at a greater diftance 
than four or five miles fi t was on this ifland 
that the celebrated ie dace Cook: fe ll a facrifice to a aa 
derftanding, or fudden impulfe of revenge, in the natives, 0 
Sunday the 14th of eee 1779. See his Copecaa 
article. 
OWL, in Ornithology. cies = 
Ow, Churn, See Caprimuteus Europeu 
Ow. Fifh, or Sea Owl, in a ne an Englith name 
for he lumpus, more frequently called the dump-fifb 5 and by 
the sae the cock-paddle. See CycLoprerus Lumpus. 
igeon, in Ornithology, the name of a particular {pe- 
cies ae Fe called Moore the columba bubo nominata. 
It isa {mall and fhort-bodied pigeon ; it has a fhort round 
head, and has a feries of feathers that feparate and open two 
ways upon the breaft : but its moft remarkable character is 
its beak, the upper chop of which is bent, and ae over 
like an owl’s: this is the occafion of its nam It is of 
various colours, as aa blue, orblack, but i is ; always of 
one colour, never 
Owt’s Head, -in Gegraphy a cape on the S.E, coaft of 
Nova Scotia, N. lat. W. long. 60° 50’. 
K, a town of Hindooftan, in Rehileund ; 12 
miles E. of Bifflow 
OWLER, a uien of a fhip, or other perfon, who con- 
veys wool, or other prohibited goods, in - cee to the 
fea-fide, in order to fhip them off contrar 
The name is Satie hence, that like eae ae only ftir 
abroad in the night- tim 
WwLi NG, in Law, fo called from its oe ufually 
carried on in the night, denotes the offence o F tranfporting 
wool or fheep out of sl kingdom, to the detrim ent of its 
ftaple manufaure. as forbidden at common law (Mir. 
II. 
c. I. § 3-)) and more _paticlarly by ftatute 11 Edw 
c. 1. when the impor of our woollen manufaGure firft 
beca obje recs 7 “and there are now 
for a year, and that at the end of the year the left hand fhall 
be cut off in 
in the mo n place ; se the fecond offence is felony. 
The reat 12 Can — pile an 7 & -IID. c2 
make the ex of wool, fheep, r fuller’s earth 
por 
liable to se geen ras Be the aes of the i 
reft of the fhip and cargo by the owners, if privy ; 
confifeation of goods, and three years’ pa sian ae to the 
er and all the mariners. nd t : tute 4 ae 
Ge — a ae enforced by o. II 1. and 
oe I. aie rene it ail ocd for eas years, 
the e penal be no 
ae cee a fhip, by whom fhe is 
WNER, t 
freighted to the merchant for conreyane by fea. 
- 
— public aaa hia fhall there be laid up. 
O X 
OWRUCZE, in Geography, a town of ainia in 
the palatinate of Kiev ; 96 miles N.W. of 
OWSCRA a tow wn of Hindooftan, in ines 20 
miles W. of al 
cae nme, is salen bark, beaten or ground 
a to ere i in a pre lanai = ae her. 
Mammalia Pecora, 
lunar form. It 28 eight extting teeth in the lower jaw, none 
in the upper, and no The animals of this genus are 
extremely ufeful to er fervin as beafts of draught and 
burden, and furnifhing for food beef, milk, cheefe, butter, 
curds and whey ; their aw ake excellent leather for 
t i 
riety of seul anf and even the hoofs, 
hair are converted to u ey principally delight in i 
paftures, avoiding woods and itsep hills; they fight by pu aged 
wit their ha their v: oice is deno minated “c orang 
ee ave : 
as fteer, ftot, runt, eae ftirk, feg, and many others, 
which vary in different di 
e common ox, or Bos taurus, has round horns, which 
re curved outwards ; and a pendant dewlap. 
URUS. 
Ox, i in Rural Economy, the name of a well-known animal, 
produced from the male of the cattle kind by caltration. 
ee CaTrT 
Oxen, like other domettic aie vary much in colour ; 
but nee: ae ce co pal it be gloffy, thick, and 
mooth to arfh, tough, or thin, 
there is ol " ieee that the anneal is out of order, or 
at leaft not a ftrong conftitutio 
Mr. 
room to back the cart; for which realan the “hatt ts fhould be 
made oe enough to admit them. Ox-collars are ftrongly 
recommended. 
he comparative merits and demerits of beafts of labour, 
depend, in his opinio 
farm with. Their kee Ese in fo e 
prices of hay and corn, and on the fize and voracioufnefs of 
the beaft to be fed. T'alaing into the ac voidabl 
pilfering of carters 8, On an eq f time, an 
) be kept at two-thirds of the expence of a large cart- 
rfe. In ee sea it is rae here to aol - 
orfe, 
re ity, 
uality 
equally asp and squall eit Their ‘reg de. 
ends 
