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called tfigufa, or milk-herb. The fix Lift fpecies are na¬ 
tive; of japan, and have fqn,are ftalks. 
Propagation anti Culture. The plants, being moll of them 
annual, are propagated from feeds, fowfi in March upon 
a moderate hot-bed, and tranfplanted into another hot- 
Jted, where they muft be watered and (hided until they 
have taken root; after which they muft have plenty of 
air in mild weather, and muft be watered frequently. In 
May they (hould be taken up with a ball of earth to their 
roots, and planted out either in pots or borders, (hading 
and watering them as before. They may alfo be increafed 
by cuttings taken oft’ any time in May and planted in a 
moderate hot-bed ; obferving to (hade and water them 
during ten days. In three weeks time they will be fit to 
remove. The feeds are ufually brought from the fouth 
of France or Italy every fpfing, becauTe fome of the forts 
feldom ripen their feeds in this country in the open air. 
But feeds may be faved here, by placing the plants in an 
airy glafs cafe or ftove in the autumn ; fupplying them 
■with water, and letting them have free air in mild wea¬ 
ther. 
Some of the more tender forts may be fown on a hot¬ 
bed early in the {bring, and, when the plants come up, 
tranfplanted on another tenjperate hot-bed to bring them 
forward ; and, when they have obtained ftrength, tranf¬ 
planted into feparate fpots, and placed in the ftove. The 
Shrubby forts may be increafed by cuttings, planted in a 
hot-bed. 
OCI'VAS, a town of Brafil, in the government of 
Maranhao. 
OCK, a river of England, which runs into the Thames 
at Abingdon. 
OCK'ER, a river which rifes in the Hartz Foreft by 
feveral fprings, about eight miles fouth-eaft from Goftar, 
panes by Wolfenbuttel, Brunfwick, &c. and runs into the 
Aller five miles weft of Gifhorn. 
OCK'HAM, a village in Surry, fix miles north-eaft 
from Guildford, where lord King has a feat and park! The 
church (lands almoft oppofite to the lioufe; and in the 
church-yard is a (lone over the grave of John Spong, a 
carpenter, on which is this punning epitaph : 
Who many a fturdy oak had laid along, 
Fell’d by Death’s furerhatchet, here lies Spong; 
Pods oft he made, yet ne’er a place could get ; 
And liv’d by railing, though he was no wit ; 
Old faw’s he had, although no antiquarian ; 
And lliles corrected, yet was no grammarian, 
OCK'LEY (Simon), a diftinguifhed oriental fcholar, 
was born at Exeter in 1678. He was entered of Queen’s 
college, Cambridge, in 1696, where he applied himfelf 
very aftiduoully to the feveral branches of literature, and 
efpecially to the oriental languages. Having taken 
orders, he was prefented to the living of Swavefey, in 
Cambridgefliire; and in 1711 was chofen profefl’or of Ara¬ 
bic in that univerfity. He married while young; and 
the expenfes of a growing family involved him in debt, 
for which he w'as thrown into confinement among the 
debtors in Cambridge-caftle. It is not known by what 
means he obtained his liberty, but he did not live long to 
enjoy it, dying in 1720. He difplayed his zeal for pro¬ 
moting the ftudy of Eaftern literature, in a publication 
entitled “ Introduflio ad Linguas Orientales,” dedica¬ 
ted to the bifhop of Ely, and addrefted to academical 
youth, with an exhortation to purfue a branch of learning, 
without which, he fays, no one ever became a great di¬ 
vine. The mod confiderable work of this learned author 
was his “ Hiftory of the Saracens,’’ from 632 to 705, in 
two volumes 8vo. the firft was publifhed in 1708, and 
the fecond in 1717, while he was in prifon. This is a 
valuable work, and contains much curious and enter¬ 
taining information refpefting the religion, manners, 
and culloms, of the Saracens, of which a great part was 
new at the time when he wrote. In 1707, he publi(hed 
3 tranflation from the-Italian of “The Hiftory of the 
OCT 
Prefent Jews throughout the World, by Leo Modena, a 
Venetian Rabbi;” and, in the following year, he gave a 
tranflation from a curious work entitled “ The Improve¬ 
ment of Human Reafon, exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebu 
Vokdhan, written by Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail.” Blow. 
Brit. 
OCLIS'SER, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat, on 
the fouth fide of the Nerbuddah, oppofite Baroach. 
OCOL', a town of Thibet: eighty miles weft-north- 
weft of Cha-tcheou. 
OCO'NA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Arequipa, 
near the coaft : ninety-fix miles weft-north-weft ,of Are¬ 
quipa. Lat. 16. S. 
OCO'PA, a town of Peru, in the jurifdiftion of Atun 
Xauxa. 
OCOQUAN', a river of America, in Virginia, which, 
after a (hort courfe, dilcharges itfelf into Patowmack 
river, five miles below Colchelter. Lat. 39. 39. N. Ion 
77. 18. W. 
OCORO'NI, a town of New Mexico, in the province 
of Cinaloa : twelve miles north of Cinaloa. 
OCOTF/A, J'. in botany. See Porostema. 
OCOZIN'GO, a town of Mexico, in the province of 
Chiapa : forty miles eall of Chiapa dos Elpagnols. 
O'CRA, ./I A vifeous vegetable fubftance well known in 
the Weft Indies, where it is ufed to thicken foup, parti¬ 
cularly that kind called pepper-pot; as well as for other 
purpofes. 
OC'RAN, [Heb. a dilturber.] A man’s name. 
OCRE'A, f. Among the ancients, a kind of military 
(hoe, or (hort boot, which was made of white tin, and 
ornamented with gold or fiiver about the ankles. Itsuie 
was very ancient; as the Greeks were fo provided with 
them in Homer’s time. Among the Romans, none were 
allowed to wear the oereer but the two upper dalles of 
the people, or fuch whofe eftate exceeded 7500 drachmas. 
OCRECOCK IN'LET, a navigable channel between 
Albemarle Sound and Pimlico Sound, in N. Carolina. 
OCRIC'ULUM, in ancient geography, a town of Um¬ 
bria, near Rome. Now Otricoli, which fee. 
OCRI'DA. See Akrida, vol. i. 
OCRFNUM, in ancient geography, a promontory of 
the ifie of Albion, which was undoubtedly the Lizard 
Point in Cornwall, probably called Ocrinum from Or it 
Riien, a high promontory; and, as the Britons kept pof- 
feftion of Cornwall fo long, we need not be furprifed 
that the prefent name of that promontory, the Lizard, 
is alfo of BritKh derivation, from Lis-ard, a lofty pro¬ 
jection. 
OCRZ'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lub¬ 
lin : twenty-fix miles north-well of Lublin. 
OCTAET'ERIS, f. [Greek.] A cycle or term of eight 
years in the Grecian chronology, at the conclufion of 
which three entire lunar months were added. This cycle 
was in life till Meton’s invention of the golden number, 
or cycle of 19 years. 
OCTAGON, j. [from the Gr.ox.Tw, eight, and yunx, 
a corner.] In geometry, a figure confiding of eight (ides 
and angles ; and this, when all the (ides and angles are 
equal, is called a regular oSlagon, which may be inferibed 
in a circle. Harris. 
OCTAG'ONAL, or Octogonal, adj. Having eight 
angles and fides.—Here was anciently a large church, 
buiit in honour of that glorious triumph : but all that 
now remains of it is only an udogonal cupola, about ei°mt 
yards in diameter. Maundreirs Trav. —The font, remain¬ 
ing in its old fituation near the chief entrance, is large, 
and well-ornamented ; and was probably conftruCled at 
the time of the prefent church, with fome of whofe win¬ 
dows the Gothick mouldings on the faces of its ottvgouul 
panes uniformly correfpond. War ton's Hijlof Kiddington. 
OCTAHE'DRON, or Octohedron, / in geometry, 
one of the five regular bodies, confiding of eight equal 
and equilateral triangles. 
OCTAN'DRXA, f. [from the Gr. oxt u, eight, and 
2 a man 
