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other days, they fay the prayer for the king and govern¬ 
ment, and afterwards the prayer of the Addition. Thofe 
who are poffeffed of a palm-tree branch, citron. See. go 
once round the altar, faying Hofanna, i. e. Save vis ! they 
then carry the Law to the ark again, and,after fome other 
prayers are faid, the fervice is ended. The willow-twigs, 
which they hold in their hands on this day, are to remind 
them of the blefling of the waters. This feaft is alfo that 
of Gatkering-in the Harveft. 
The eighth day of the Feaft of Tabernacles, very ftriflly 
kept, is called the Day of Solemn Affembly. The mo¬ 
dern Jews keep nine days of this feftival, inftead of eight. 
Time's Teltjcope, 1816. 
QCTOBLEPH'ARUM, f. [fo named from the Gr. 0 vlu, 
eight, and @ht(pu.cov, the eye-laih.] In botany, a genus of 
mofles founded by Hedwig, upon the Bryum albidum of 
Linnaeus, its only known fpecies. (See the article Bo¬ 
tany, vol. iii. p. 2S2, 7 .) Effential Generic Character — 
Fringe of eight funple equidiftant teeth ; capfule without 
an apophyfis. ' 
Odloblepharum albidum, a fingle fpecies. Dillenius 
received this mofs from “ Providence-ifland in America,” 
but from which of the two illands fo named, does not ap¬ 
pear: Dr. Swartz found it in Jamaica; and we have the 
fame from the Eaft Indies, gathered by Dr. F. Buchanan. 
The frequent coincidence between the cryptogamic vega- 
tables of the two Indies is a curious circumftance in the 
philofophy. of botany ; as well as that between the aqua¬ 
tic plants of widely-diftant, and even different, climates. 
This is a finall perennial mofs, forming tufts on the trunks 
of trees, and remarkable for its white, rather opaque, 
though glittering, colour, with fcarcely a tinge of green, 
in which refpefts it agrees with our Dicranum glaucum, 
and the Sphagnum, or bog-mofs; abforbing moifture, like 
them, with the greateft rapidity, though ever fo long 
dried. The leaves are linear, fomewhat fpatulate, entire, 
ipongy, without any rib, fpreading in every direction, 
fcarcely half an inch long. Antherte red, in axillary tufts, 
furrounded by four leaves. Capfules on the fame plant, 
axillary, elliptical, fmooth, pale brown, their ftalks about 
half an inch long, ereft. Lid conical, acute, fhorter than 
the capfule. Fringe reddifli-brown, its eight teeth broad 
at the bafe, ftiort, acute. This is reprefented on the pre¬ 
ceding Plate, at fig. 2. 
OCTODU'RUS, a village in the modern country of 
Swifferland ; now called Mtiftigny. 
OCTOED'RICAL, ad). Having eight fides. 
OCTOG'ENARY, adj. [aBogeni, Lat.] Of eighty years 
of age. 
OCTOGE'SA, a town of Spain, alittle above the mouth 
of the Iberus ; now called Meqidnenfa. 
OC'TOGON. See Octagon, p. 391. 
OC'TON, a town of France, in the department of the 
Herault: fix miles north-eaft of Bedarrieux, and four 
fouth of Lodeve. 
OC'TONARY, adj. [oBonarius, Lat.] Belonging to 
the number eight. 
OCTONOC'ULAR, adj. [from the Lat. 0B0, eight, 
and oculvs, an eye.] Having eight eyes.—Moll animals are 
binocular; fpiders for the molt part oBotiocu/ar, and fome 
fenocular. Berham's Phyf. Theol. 
OCTOPET'ALOUS, aclj. in botany ; [from the Gr. 
Lv.r.u, eight, and mraXov, a-flower-leaf.] Plaving eight 
flower-leaves. 
OCTOPH'ORUM, J'. Among the ancients, a carriage 
with eight wheels. It alio ftgnifieda chair, or litter, car¬ 
ried by eight chairmen, and moftly ufed by the women*. 
OCTOPITA'RUM, in ancient geography, a promon¬ 
tory of Albion, which is evidently St. David’s Head in 
Pembrokefhire. 
OCTOSPO'RA, f. in botany; [from the Gr. aura, 
eight, and credos, a feed.] A genus of fungi eltablilhed by 
Hedwig, of which he gives the following chara&er: 
Trunk perfectly Ample, terminated by a fertile furface, 
which is either concave, flat, or reflexed; and out of 
O C Y 
which proceed very numerous elongated delicately-mem- 
branousfeed-cafes,generally furrounded with a filamentous 
fubftance, not connected among themfelves, each of them 
producing eight feeds. Schreber adopts this genus ; but 
the profeffed writers on fungi, though ufually fo prolific 
in genera, entirely negleft this, retaining the plants which 
compofe it in the eftabliflied genus of Peziza, to which 
they properly belong. See Peziza. 
OC'TOSTIC, J'. [from the Gr. ov.ru, eight, and 
a verfe.] A llanza confiding of eight lines. Cole. 
OC'TOSTYLE, f. [from the Gr. ovro, eight, and rvXo?, 
a pillar.] In the ancient architecture, the face of a build¬ 
ing containing eight columns. Harris. 
OCTOSYL'LABLE, adj. [0B0, Lat. a.ndjyllable.'] Con- 
filling of eight fyllables.—In the oBqfy liable metre Chaucer 
has left feveral compofitions. Though I call this th eoBo~ 
Jyllable metre, from what I apprehend to have been its ori¬ 
ginal form, it often confiftsofnine, and fometimes ten, fyl-- 
lables; but the eighth is always the laft accented lyllable. 
Tyrtchitt's Ejfay on the Lang, and Verf of Chaucer. 
OC'TUNX, f. A w'ord ufed by fome difpenfatory- 
writers to fignify eight ounces. 
OC'TUPLE, adj. [ oBupulus , Lat.] Eight-fold. 
OC'ULAR, adj. [oculaire, Fr. from oculus, Lat.] De¬ 
pending on the eye; knoum by the eye.—Fie that would 
not believe the menace of God at firft, it may be doubted 
whether before an ocular example he believed the curfe at 
firft. Brown. 
Prove my love a whore, 
Be fure of it: give me the ocular proof, 
Or thou hadll better have been born a dog. Shakefpeare. 
OC'ULARLY, adv. To the obfervation of the eye.— 
Great defire I had to inform myfelf ocularly of the Hate 
and practice of the Roman church ; thejcnowledge whereof 
might be of no fmall ufe to me in my holy ftation. Bp. 
Halts Specialties of his Lij'e. 
OC'ULATE, adj. Having eyes ; knowing by the eye. 
OC'ULIST, f. One who profeffes to cure diftempers of 
tire eyes.—If there be a fpeck in the eye, we take it off; 
but he were a ftrange vculi/t who would pull out the-eye. 
Bacon. — I am no oculift; and, if I fliould go to help one 
eye and put out the other, w r e fliould have an untoward 
builnefs. L'Eftrange. 
OC'ULUS BE'LI, [Latin.]—The oculus beli of jewel¬ 
lers, probably of Pliny, is an accidental variety of the 
agat kind ; having a grey horny ground, circular delinea¬ 
tions, and a fpot in the middle, refembling the eye; whence 
its name. Woodward. 
OC'ULUS CHRIS'TI, f. in botany. See Inula and 
Salvia. 
OCUMA'RA, a bay of the province of Caraccas, in 
Terra Firma, South America, five leagues eaft of Porto- 
Cabello, which is a very good and weil-fiieltered port. 
It is defended by a battery mounting eight pieces of can¬ 
non. The village of Ocumara is at the diftance of one 
league from the port, and is watered by a river of the fame 
name, which, after fertilifing its valleys, difeharges itielf 
into the fame bay at the bottom of the fort. Between the 
bay of Ocumara and that of Guayra, are feveral fmall 
ports, where the inhabitants of that coall fliip their com¬ 
modities for Guayra, or Porto-Cabello; but none of 
them very important. 
■ OCUNHA'ZARY, a town of Bengal: twenty miles 
north-north-weft of Ramgur. 
OCUNNOLUS'TE, a town of United America, in the 
ftate of Tennelfee : twenty-one miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Tellico. 
OCYMAS'TRUM, f. in botany. See Lychnis. 
OCYMOI'DES. See Cerastium, Lychnis, Sapona- 
ria, and SlLENE. 
OCYMOPFIYL'LUM. See Isnardia. 
OC'YMUM. See Ocimum, p. 389. 
OC'YMUM. See Polygonium and Stachys. 
O'CYMUM frutefeens. See Perilla ocymoides. 
4 OCYP'ETE, 
