OYA 
heat, and the remaining matter, which is the falt, is to be 
colleéted together, and kept in a phial carefully ftopt ; for 
it is {ubje& to run, if left to the accefs of the air, like the 
common alkali falt 
O 
from ofus, fot and staua, the fame as seupo, a crown ; 
rown in f the Wernerian Soc. v. 1.40. odr. Nov 
Holl. v.1. 462. Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. 
Nat. Ord. Contorte, Linn. <Apocynea, Jui. Afelepiadee, 
Brow 
Eff. Corolla wheel-fhaped, f{preading. Colu 
prominent. Crown of the ftamens of five ohne arte. 
Endivided leaves. Anthers tipped with a membrane. Maffes 
of pollen compreffed, attached by their taper points, sie 
sae ous. Stigma pointlefs. Follicles fmooth. Seeds 
mo 
I. “0. Leeearcod a oe? aca Linn. Suppl. 
~ oxb. Coromand. v. t. Willd. Sp. Pl. 
ae. Apo cea ma de rafp ata 
aca, flore apis gem vericalons: Pluk. Am 
es li near lanceolate 
ufhy places, near rivers 
and Mal ak Koenig, who fent fine 
mens to Linn written on one of them that the 
plant is efculent, oa called Uf. eae in the Tamul language.” 
ur’ 
Dr. 
ple, at leaft of the Malabar coaft. He e gives Oudy-palla as 
its name amon the Telingas, and remarks that cattle eat it. 
The root is fibrous, and “perennial as ST as the twining, 
flender, {mooth, round, branchin he Jeaves and 
lowers are produced during the rainy ee ; the former are 
oppofite, ftalked, above two inches ee linear-lanceolate, 
acute, entire, sevens fingle-ribbed, t green, roun 
at the bafe, deciduo ufters ious ax, ftalked, lateral, 
folitary, between be Jeaf-ftalke at one fide, lowers the 
fize of thofe of Primula Auricula, of fome - — moft 
» but their 
2, O. carnofum. Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. 1. 462. 
~—Leaves nearly oval, pointed. Segments of the ene 
linear.— Native of the tropical ded of New Holland, where 
it = = by Mr. Brown, The ems are twining, her- 
bac eaves » {mooth, oppofite. Flowers in 
cabal ftalked clufters, Coan seen the leaf-ftalks. Mr. 
rown remarks that this New Holland {pecies is fo very 
different from the Eaft Indian one, he is inclined to think 
they ASA to be different genera. 
OXYTOCHIA, formed of ofus, /harp, and twrrw, I bring 
deg in Medicine, a term ufed by many authors to exprels 
fuch aoe gas are given to promote delivery, 
ACHA, in Geography, a town of South Ame- 
rica, in athe province of Quito; 25 miles E. of Quito. 
OYA MBRE, Caprz, acape on the N. coaft of Spain. 
N. lat. $5 ao W. long. 4° 17 
OY OK, a river of Guiana, which runs into the 
Adanticy_ aes cape Qrange, 
OYO 
OYE, atown of France, inthe leet ange of the flraits 
of Calais, fituated on a bran ch of the to whick 
it gives name, formerly in poffeffion aE the Englifh ; fever 
miles E.N.E. of Calais. 
Over, Norder and Sander, two {mall iflands of Denmark, 
in the North fea, two and three miles N. of Norditrand. 
OYER, a town of Norway; 88 miles N. of Chriftianta. 
Over feems to have been anciently ufed for what we call 
hes. 
Over and terminer, a commifficn direGted to the judges and 
other gentlemen of the county to which it is iffued, by 
virtue whereof they are empowered to hear and dane 
treafons, and all manner of felonies and trefpaffes. How- 
ever, the judges or ferjeants at law only are of the ‘pales 
fo that the reft cannot a& without the prefence of o 
The term is French, and literally denotes to lan 
and determine. In our ftatutes it is fometimes written oyer 
and determiner. This is the firft and largeft of the five com- 
miffions by which our judges of affize do fit, in their feveral 
circuits. (See Assizes.) The words of the commiffion 
are ‘to inquire, hear, and fen 3? fo that a virtue 
of this commiffion they can only proceed upon an indid- 
ment found at the fame ate i they mutt firft i ae by 
means of the grand jury or inqueft, before they are ag ie 
to hear and determine by the help of the petit jury. 
fore they have another commiffion of “ gaol-delivery,”’ which 
empowers them to try and deliver every prifoner, who fhall 
be in the gaol when the judges arrive at the circuit town, 
wheneve er, or before whomfoever indicted, or for whatever 
Q 
et 
fion of oyer and terminer, and gaol-delivery, confined to thofe 
offences, which need of immediate inquiry and pu- 
ifhment ; upcen the courfe of p ding is much 
e fame, as upon general and ordinary commiffions. For- 
merly it was in purfuance of the tes 8 Ric. II. 
c. 2. and 33 H VIII. c. 4. that no judge or other law- 
er could 5 in the commiffion of oyer and terminer, or in 
from ca a sae and determining civil caufes. 
But that local ae which the jealoufy of our an- 
cefters ‘was careful to prevent, being judged lefs likely to 
operate in the trial of crimes and mifdemefnors, than in mat- 
ters of property, and difputes between party and partys . 
was thought proper by the ftatute 12 Geo. II. c. 27 
allow any man to be a juftice of oyer ae terminer, and . 
neral La delivery, within any county of Englan 
ciently it was only in ufe upon fome fudden outrage, 
or anluereesioe. in any place. 
YER de Record is a petition made in court, praying that 
the judges, for joie proof, will be pleafed to hear, or 
loo : upoty any re 
e like fenfe, a perfon may demand oyer of a bond, 
deed, a or the like. 
» acorruption of the French oyex, hear ye, being 
a term, or formula, wherein the criers in our courts enjoin 
filence or attention, before they make proclamation of any 
thin 
OVL CREEK, in Geography,a river of Pennfylvania, — 
runs intothe Allegany, N. lat. 41° 2° 43! 
> atown of Spain, in the province oe Alava ; a4 
miles 8.S.E. of Vittoria. 
=Z, atown of France, in the department of 
the Ain, and chief le of a canton, in the diftri& of 
antua ; 
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