OXA 
der in the early {pring feafon, which afterwards require only 
to be kept clear from weeds, 
And the other forts may be increafed, by planting off-fets 
from the roots or bulbs that come out from the fides o 
potted plant 
XALis, in the Materia Medica. The oxalis aceto- 
tofella is ‘otally inodorous, but has a grateful tafte, fo 
hat it is ul in fallads by fupplying the place of 
correfponds in a great eae in its medical ean ‘being 
efteemed refrigerant, antifccrbutic, and diuretic. It is re- 
commended by Bergius in inflammatory, bilious, and putrid a 
evers. ‘The principal ufe, however, of the acetofella is to 
allay inordinate heat and to quench thirft ; for this purpofe, 
the roo: of Lujula, probably on account of its 
beaut red colour rather than for its fuperior efficacy. 
ain effential falt is prepared from this plant, known by the 
ame of ‘ effential falt of lemons,’? and commonly ufed for 
une ink-ftains out of linen. This falt is made from the 
exprefled juice. Thunberg found that the oxalis cornua 
of the Cape of Goo 
497: 
$s effential falt of aes in this country, appears fome- 
times to confift of c ream of tartar, with the addition of a 
The active principle 
juice, which reddens vegetable blues, 
coagulates milk, and inftantly precipitates lime from its 
folutions, is fuperoxalat of potafs, which is obtained 
cryftallized from the juice, and fold in the fhops un- 
er the nam dees - ape falt of lemons.’ The fame 
by ca 
oxalat precipitates as foon as the roper quantity of alkali 
ad n the continent this falt is prepared by the 
following procefs: the juice is allowed to fubfide after be- 
in g flightly heated, and then clarified by adding to it water, 
in which a fmall portion of fine clay is fufpended. This 
clartfied juice is next boiled till a particle forms on its fur- 
face, and put afide for a month to cryftallize: the operation 
being repeated until the whole of the falt is obtained, when 
it is purified by a fecond 2? Mo uapiai Annal. de Chi- 
mie. xiv. 7. Woodville. mfon 
OX aargiene in the Materia Metica 9 of the Ancients, the 
me of a compofition of vinegar and brine, made by a fo- 
face of fea-falt i in water his is was ufed a arate in ul- 
cers, and fuppofed of great fervice againft the bites of ve- 
nomous animals, and for the curing children’s aed heads. 
iw 
, Ou 
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a 
OXE 
. was alfo ufed as a ftyptic poured into wounds, and wag 
metimes given warm in clyfters; but thefe were always 
llores by thofe of mil 
OX-BOOSE, in Rural Economy, a ftall er place where 
oxen ftand in the winter to be fed or fattened. 
O REAT, in Geography, a bend of the river 
Conneticut, about the middle of the townfhip of Newbury, 
in Vermont ; it contains 450 acres of the fineft meadow land 
in New Englan 
OXELZE UM, a word ufed by many authors to exprefs 
a mixture of vinegar and oil, for outward applicat‘on, in 
cafes of ae a = injuries 
OXEN 
OXEN rn ae in Cea a river a Maryland, ae 
runs into the Potomac, 39°8 
OXE 
in 1583. a — te education at Roftock, Witten- 
berg, and made ee progrefs in the languages, 
and in seers cere of fcience, but he feemed particu- 
larly attached to theology. “When he had finifhed his aca- 
demical ftudies, he paid a vifit to moft of the German 
n he was received into the fervice of 
him, was the 
adjuftment of fome differences that fubfifted between the 
Livonian nobility and the city of Revel, which he brought 
toa happy conclufion. e had now given fuch a favourable 
difplay of his talents, ice the king, who was far advanced 
in life, made choice of him to be guardian to the royal family, 
and placed him at the head of the regency. n the ac- 
ceffion of Guttavus Adolphus, he was promoted to be chan- 
cellor, and in 1613, when overtures were ma 
gociator on the part of the former. 
he accompanied the king in his expedition into Germany, 
and he had the fatisfaction of feeing an end put to hoftilities 
between Kuffia and Sweden, by an honourable | seat e 
continued to advance in the confidence av of his 
fovereign, till at length he was invefted with fall “authority 
in all civil and multary affairs on the Rhine, an 
having advanced into Bavaria aud Franconia, Oxeatie ema 
fixed his head.quarters at Mentz, whence he proceeded with 
the troops that he had collected to join his majefty, and then 
took up his ftation with fome ti dea in the upper part of 
Guflavus advance dto Lutzen, where e 
even‘. 
of about ten years, refigned the authority with 
hich he had been inveltel, and tock his feat in the fenate 
as chancellor of the kingdom, and as one of the five guar- 
