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that of the earth; its density is therefore about 1.4, be- urbane (er-ban'). a. [< L. urbanus, of or per- 
ing a little more than that of Jupiter. It is about 19.2 , *:,. ,;* _,] 
ng a little more than that of Jupiter. It is about 19.2 
times as far from the sun as the earth is; and its period 
of revolution is about eighty- four years and one week. It 
has four satellites Ariel, I'nibriel, Titania, and Oberon 
of which the first two are extremely difficult telescopic ob- 
jects. They revolve in one plane nearly perpendicular to 
that of the orbit of the planet. 
urao (o-ra'6), . [= F. ttmo; S. Amer. name.] 
A native name for natron found in the dried- 
up lakes and river-courses of South America : 
same as the trona of the Egyptian lakes. See 
natron, tromi. 
Urapterygidas (u-rap-te-rij'i-de), n. pi. [NL. 
(Guen6e, 1857), < Drupteryx (-pteryy-) + -idee.] 
taining to a city or city life, hence refined, 
polished, urbane: see urban. Urbane is to 
urban as humane is to human.'] 1. Of or be- 
longing to a city or town ; urban. [Bare.] 
Though in no sense national, he [Horace] was, more truly 
than any has ever been since, till the same combination 
of circumstances produced Be"ranger, an urbane or city 
poet. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 239. 
2. Civil; courteous; polite; usually, in a 
stronger sense, very polite ; suave ; elegant or 
refined : as, a man of urbane manners. 
A more civil and urbane kind of life. 
World of Wonders (1808). 
So I the world abused in fact, to me 
Urbane and civil as a world could be. 
Crabbe, Works, VIII. 159. 
= Syn. 2. Civil, Courteous, etc. See polite. 
A family of geometric moths, typified by the 
genus Uraptcryx, having the fore wings always 
acuminate and the hind wings usually caudate. 
The species are mainly tropical, but the family is repre- 
sented in all parts of the world. The larva; are much elon- c-~~T " V ~~ ^ 
gated, and arc furnished with protuberances, especially urbanely (er-ban h), adv. In an urbane man- 
on the eighth segment. The pupa; are inclosed in loose ner; courteously; politely; suavely, 
net-like cocoons suspended from leaves. Fourteen genera Urbanist (er'ban-ist),n. [< Urban (L. Urbanus) 
and more than 100 species have been described. Chotrodet /. ,ipf 1 -t- 'i*t 1 1 An nrl heron t of Pone 
and Oxydia are the other principal genera. Also Urap- $f de i;{ T ~ tst ^ * An adherent Of Pope 
terydss, Ourapteridy, Ourapterygidx, etc. Urban VI., in opposition to whom a faction set 
Urapteryx (u-rap'te-riks), n. [NL. (Boisduval, U P Clement VII. in 1378, thus beginning the 
1832), < Gr. oiipa, tail, + vrcpvj, wing.] A ge- great schism. 2. A member of a branch of 
nus of geometrid moths, typical of the family tne Clarisses following a mitigated rule. See 
Urapterygidse, having the body moderately slen- '"-" 
border. The species are found in tropical 
America, Asia, and Europe. U. sambucaria is 
the only European one. 
urari (o-ra'ri), . Same as curari. 
urarize (o-ra'riz), a. Same as curarized. 
urate (u'rat), n. [< ur-ic + -ate*.] A salt of 
uric acid. See uric. 
uratic (u-rat'ik), a. [< urate + -ic.~\ Of or 
pertaining to the urates Uratic diathesis, in 
med., a condition in which there is a tendency to the de- 
position of urates from the blood in the joints and other 
parts of the body ; a predisposition to gout. 
uratoma (u-ra-to'ma), n. A deposit of urates 
in the tissues ; tophus. 
uratosis (u-ra-to'sis), n. In med., the condition 
in which a deposition of crystalline urates takes 
place in the tissues. 
Urau^es (u-ra'jez), n. [NL. (Cabanis, 1851), < 
Gr. ovpa, tail, + avyf/, light, sheen, pi. the eyes. 
Cf. Lipaugus.~\ A genus of African glossy star- 
lings, having the tail in the typical species 
greatly lengthened. It is based upon the glossy 
thrush of Latham (1783), which is the same bird that 
served as type of the genera Lamprotornii (Temminck) 
and Juida (Lesson). U. 
northeastern Africa; the male is 18 inches long, of which 
the tail makes two thirds ; the plumage is glossy oil-green 
with steel-blue, purple, violet, and bronze tints, in some 
parts marked with velvety black. Several other species 
of this genus are described. 
bane: see urbane, urban.'] 1. The character 
of being urbane; that civility or courtesy of 
manners which is acquired by associating with 
well-bred people ; politeness ; suavity ; cour- 
tesy. 
So will they keep their measures true, 
And make still their proportions new, 
Till all become one harmony, 
Of honour, and of courtesy, 
True valour and urbanity. 
B. Jonson, Love Restored. 
Do you find all the urbanity in the French which the 
world gives us the honour of? 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 87. 
2. A polished humor or facetiousness. 
Moral doctrine, and urbanity, or well-mannered wit, are 
the two things which constitute the Roman satire. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal, Ded. 
If in this respect [the wrong use of pleasantry and hu- 
mor] we strain the just measure of what we call urban- 
ity, and are apt sometimes to take a buffooning rustick 
air, we may thank the ridiculous solemnity and sour hu- 
mour of our pedagogues. 
Shaftesbury, Wit and Humour, I. v. 
= Syn. > l. Complaisance, amenity. See polite. 
ized, ppr. urbanizing. [< urban + -ize.~\ To 
render urbane. Howell, Forraine Travell, p. 9. 
Urbicolaet (er-bik'o-le), n. pi. [NL. (Linnaeus, 
1758), pi. of urbicola : see urbicolous.'] A group 
of butterflies including forms now placed in the 
Hesperidse; the skippers. 
urbicolous (er-bik'o-lus), a. [< NL. urbicola, 
dwelling in a. city,' < L. urbs (urbis), city, + 
colere, dwell in, inhabit.] Inhabiting a city; 
urban. Eclectic Rev, [Rare.] 
urbi et orbi (er'bl et 6r'bl). [L. : urbi, dat. 
of urbs, city (see urban); et, and; orbi, dat. of 
orbis, the world (see orb).'] To the city (that 
is, Rome) and the world. The phrase is used in the 
publication of papal bulls, and (according to Larousse) 
by the Pope in pronouncing his blessing in the church of 
the Lateran on Maundy Thursday, Easter, and Ascension 
day. 
Urceola (er-se'o-la), n. [NL., < L. urceolus, a 
little pitcher or urn : see urceolus."] 1. [Rox- 
burgh, 1798 : so called with ref . to the form of 
the corolla.] A genus of gamopetalous plants, 
of the order Apocynacese, tribe Echitideee, and 
subtribe Ecdysantherese. It is characterized by an 
urceolate or globose corolla with somewhat induplicately 
valvate lobes (in its order a very rare arrangement). It 
includes 7 or 8 species, natives of the Malay peninsula and 
archipelago. They are shrubby cumbers with opposite 
feather-veined leaves, and dense cymes of small flowers 
urban (er'ban), a. and n. f= F. urbain = Sn ""Tmboselypamcled at the ends of the branches. U.elas- 
Pa It vrhnnn < T, iirJtnwiia nf AT- .ta;, <M is the caoutchouc- vine of Sumatra and Borneo, a large 
rg. it. uroa.no, ^ L,.uroanus,ot or pertaining to climber, often with a trunk as thick as a man's body cov- 
a city or city lite, hence polite, refined, urbane ; ered with soft, thick, rugged bark. The milky juice which 
oo a ,,,,,,,, . i,. ..n,.,. ; !*_. / ....i, _-i_ rta oozes from incisions separates, on standing in the open 
air, into a watery fluid and an elastic mass which has been 
, 
as a noun, a dweller in a city ; < urbs, city. Cf 
suburb, suburban. Cf. also urbane ~\ I a 1 Of 
or belonging to a city or town Msembling a 
city ; characteristic of a city ; situated or liv- 
ing in towns or cities : as, an urban population 
urban districts. 
thery skin, resembling oranges, and containing a tawny 
P U 'P wn i cn is eaten both by Europeans and by natives. 
2. [Z. c.] Eccles., same as cruet, 2. 
And, however advanced the urban society may be, . . UJCeolar ( er 'sf-9-lr), [< urceolus + -arS.'] 
the spirit of progress does not spread very far in the coun- Same as urceolate. 
Q. P. Lathnp, Spanish vistas, p. 183. urceolareine, a. See urceolariine. 
2f. Civil; courteous in manners; polite. [In Urceolaria (er*se-6-la'ri-a), . [NL., < L. ur- 
this sense urbane is now used.] Urban servi- ce <>lus, a little pitcher (see urceolus), + -aria.'] 
tudes, in law. See predial servitude, under servitude. 1. In bot.: (a) A small genus of gymnocarpous 
II. n. One who belongs to or lives in a town lichens, having a uniform crustaceous thallus 
and urceolate apothecia (whence the name). 
urchin 
U. scruposa and U. cincrea are used for dyeing. 
(6) Same as Urceolina. 2. [Lamarck, 1801.] 
In zodt., the typical genus of Urceolariidx, hav- 
ing the posterior acetabulum provided with 
an entire internal horny ring. U. mitra is 
found in fresh water as a parasite of planarian 
worms. 
urceolarian (er"se-o-la'ri-an), . and n. I. a. 
Pertaining to the family Crceolariiilse or having 
their characters. 
II. n. An iufusorian of this family. 
Urceolariidse (er"se-o-la-ri'i-de), n. pi. [< Ur- 
ceolaria + -idie.~\ A family of commensal or 
parasitic peritrichous infusorians, containing 
Urceolaria and a few other genera of fresh and 
salt water. 
urceolariiform (er' / se-o-la'ri-i-f6rm), a. [< NL. 
Urceolaria + L. forma', form.] In bot., having 
the form of lichens of the genus Urceolaria. 
urceolariine (er"se-o-la'ri-in), a. In bot., of or 
pertaining to the genus Urceolaria. Also spelled 
urceolareine. 
urceolate (er'se-o-lat), a. [< urceolus + -nte 1 .] 
1. Shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like a 
pitcher as respects the body, and contracted 
at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla. 2. Pro- 
vided with or contained in an urceolus, as a 
rotifer. 
urceole (er'se-61), n. [< L. urceolus: see urce- 
olus, urceola.J Same as cruet, 2. 
urceoli, . Plural of urceolus. 
Urceolina (er // se-6-U'na), n. [NL. (Reichen- 
bach), from the shape of the flowers; dim. of 
L. urceolus, an urn: see urceolus.] A genus of 
plants, of the order Amaryllidaceee, tribe Ama- 
ryllese, and subtribe Cyathiferte. it is character- 
ized by broadly tubular or urn-shaped flowers with short 
lobes, an ovary with numerous ovules, and stamens more 
or less winged at the base, but not united into a cup as 
in the related genera. The 3 species are natives of the 
Andes, and are bulbous plants with flat-petioled leaves, 
ovate-oblong or narrower, and umbels of numerous showy 
flowers, usually yellow and green. The genus is also 
known as Urceolaria (Herbert, 1821). U. pendula and U. 
latifolia, are border plants from Peru, known in cultiva- 
tion as urn-flower, and by the generic names. U. mini- 
ata, often called Pentlandia, is a very showy greenhouse 
plant, producing a solitary leaf and afterward an umbel 
of drooping vermilion flowers. 
urceolus (er-se'o-lus), n. ; pi. urceoli (-li). [NL., 
< L. urceolus, a little pitcher, dim. of urceus, a 
pitcher: see urceus.'] 1. A little pitcher or 
ewer. 2. In bot., any pitcher- or urn-shaped 
body. 3. In zool., the external tubular casing 
or sheathing of a wheel-animalcule ; the zoothe- 
cium of a rotifer, corresponding to the lorica of 
an infusorian. It may be gelatinous and hyaline, or 
mixed with hard foreign particles ; in rare cases, as that 
of Melicerta, the urceolus is not organic, but fabricated 
from extrinsic matter. Encyc. Brit., XXL 5. 
urceus (er'se-us), n.; pi. urcei (-1). [< L. urceus, 
a pitcher; cf. area, a large vessel, Gr. vpxa, a 
pickle-jar.] Eccles., a ewer, usually of metal, 
to hold water for washing. 
urchin (er'chin), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also 
urchon, urchone, urchyn; < ME. urchin, urchon, 
urchone, urchoun, urchun, irchon, irchoun, hir- 
cheoutte, < OF. ireqon, eregon, heriyon, hcrisson, 
herysson, F. herisson = Pr. erisson = Sp. erizo 
= Pg. ericio, ourico = It. riccio, < L. *ericio(n-), 
< ericius, a hedgehog, < er, orig.*her, = Gr. xfo, 
a hedgehog: see ericius.] 1. n. I. A hedge- 
hog. See hedgehog and Erinaceus. 
Like sharp urehouns his here was growe. 
Rom. of the Rote, 1. 3136. 
The common hedgehog or urchin. Ray. 
2. A sea-urchin. 
The urchins of the sea called echini. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, ix. 81. 
3f. An elf ; a fairy : from the supposition that 
it sometimes took the form of a hedgehog. 
Urchins 
Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, 
All exercise on thee. Shale., Tempest, i. 2. 326. 
4. A roguish child; a mischievous boy. 
I trowe the vrchyn will clyrae 
To some promocion hastely. 
Roy and Barlow, Rede me and be nott Wrothe (ed. Arber, 
[p. 43). 
Pleased Cupid heard, and checked his mother's pride, 
"And who s blind now, mamma?" the urchin cried. 
Prior, Venus Mistaken. 
5. One of a pair of small cylinders covered with 
card-clothing, used in connection with the card- 
drum in a carding-machine. E. H. Knight. 
II. a. 1. Elfish; mischievous. [Rare.] 
Oft at eve [she] 
Visits the herds along the twilight meadows, 
Helping all urchin blasts and ill-luck signs 
That the shrewd meddling elfe delights to make. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 845. 
