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OCYP'ETE, [Gr. fwift-flying.] The name of one of the 
harpies, who inferred whatever ffie touched. Hef/od. 
OCY'ROE, a daughter of Chiron, who had the gift of 
prophecy. She was changed into a mare. 
OC'ZAKOW, or Oczakoff, once a town of Turkey 
in Europe* and capital of a fangiack of the fame name. 
During a former war, it had a Turkifh garrifon of 20,000 
men ; however, it was taken by the Ruffians in 1737, and 
all that refifted were put to the fword : the Ruffians them- 
felves loll 18,000 men in the affault. The Turks returned 
the fame year with 70,000 men to retake it; but were ob¬ 
liged to retire, after the lofs of 20,000. In 1738, the 
Ruffians withdrew their garrifon, and demolilhed the for¬ 
tifications. It was feated on the river Bog, to the weft of 
the Dnieper, or rather where they both unite and fall into 
the Black Sea : forty-two miles fouth-weft of Bialagrod, 
and 190 north-by-eaft of Conftantinople. Having been 
long a lubjeft of great conteft between the Ruffians and 
Turks, it has now lo completely difappeared,tha.t, accord¬ 
ing to Dr. Clarke, it would be impoffible to trace its life 
without a guide. This abandonment, however, was, in 
Mr. Heber’s opinion, very bad policy ; fince,.lying at the 
junSHon of the Bog and the Dnieper, Oczakoff is the 
natural emporium of thefe feas. Odefla, however, is now 
the feat of government. Clarke's Travels, Part. I. 
OC'ZE, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia : 
forty-four miles weft-north-weft of Birlat, and ten fouth- 
eaft of Bekeu. 
OC'ZYCE, a town of Lithuania : forty miles fouth- 
eaft of Minfk. 
O'DA, f. in the Turkifh feraglio, fignifies a clafs, cham¬ 
ber, or order. The grand fignior’s pages are divided into 
fiveclafles, or chambers, called orlas. 
The firft, which is the lowed in dignity, is called the 
Great Oda, from the number of perfons that compofe it. 
Thefe are the juniors, who are taught to read, write, and 
fpeak, the languages; which are, the Turkifh for this 
world ; the Arabic for paradife; and the Perfian for hell, 
by reafon of the herefy of the people that fpeak it. 
The fecond is called the Little Oda; where, from the 
age of fourteen or fifteen years, the youth are trained up 
to arms, and the ftudy of fuch polite learning as the 
Turks are acquainted with ; viz. logic, arithmetic, geo¬ 
metry, and a little aftrology. 
The third chamber, called Kilar Oda, comprehends 
two hundred pages ; which, befides their other exercifes, 
are commanded by the kilerdgi-bachi, for the fervice of 
the buttery and fruitery. 
The fourth only confifts of twenty-four; thefe, under 
the khazineda-bachi, take care of the treafurein the grand 
fignior’s apartment, where they never enter with any 
clothes on that have pockets. 
The fifth is called Khas Oda, i. e. privy-chamber; and 
confifts of forty pages, which attend the emperor’s bed¬ 
chamber. The firft of this chamber is called Oda Bachi; 
the fecond Siliktar, See. Every night, eight of thefe pages 
keep guard in the emperor’s bed-chamber; they are polled 
in feveral places, fome nearer him, others farther off, ac¬ 
cording to their degrees in the chamber. They are to 
take care the lights, kept conftantiy in the chamber, do 
not glare in his eyes, and awake him ; and, if they find 
him difturbed with any troublefome dream, to take care 
he be awaked by one of the agas. 
ODALEN'GA, a town of France, in the department 
of Marengo: fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Crefcentino, and 
fix eaft of Verrua. 
OD'ALIK, f. So called from the word oda, fignifying 
chamber, a denomination given to female llaves attached 
to the feraglio of the grand fignior, in contradiftindlion to 
thofe feven who are felefted as his favourites, who partici¬ 
pate moft commonly in his pleafures, and who fometimes 
acquire no fffiall degree of influence over public affairs. 
Thefe are diftinguifhed by the appellation of kadeun. If 
one of the odaliks be pregnant, fhe is treated with great 
attention, provided the fultan has no male children ; on 
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the contrary, fhe finds herfelf in a very critical fituation, 
when he has any by a kadeun, or flave in favour. She is then 
fortunate ifftieefcape by mifearrying, as the child is fmo- 
thered at ils birth. For one of thefe odaliks to become 
kadeun, an honour very ardently wiflied by all, it is ne- 
celfary that the grand fignior fhould fend one of the feven 
favourites to the old feraglio, the place of exile for his 
women who have mifbehaved, or have had the misfortune 
to difpleafe by growing old. 
ODAVA'R A, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon, 
fituated in the Gulf of Jeddo : forty miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Jeddo. 
ODD, adj. [nddu, Swed. Junius thinks it to be de¬ 
rived from adeled. Mr. H. Tooke contends, that it is the 
participle owed, ow'd. “ Thus,” he lays, “ when we are 
counting by couples, or by pairs, we fay one pair, two 
pairs, &c. and one owed, ow'd, to make tip another pair. 
It has the fame meaning when we fay, an odd man, or an 
ot/dadlion : it ftill relates to pairing; and we mean, with¬ 
out a fellow, unmatched, not fuch another; one owed to 
make up a couple.” Div. of Purley, ii. 38.—This fpeci- 
ous etymon (fays Mr. Todd) will hardly be received. A 
later writer carries it to the Greek An??, “ which fignifies 
every thing that can relate to the unit;/, if I may, fo ex- 
prels myfelf, of a being. Dio?, fay the ordinary lexico¬ 
graphers, peculiaris,y?M generis, funs, privatus.” Whiter’s 
Etym. Mag. p. 478. Our word is thus to be traced to the 
firft fy liable (A) of the Greek word ; but the fame etymo- 
logift alfo notices the Arab, ahd, the term for one. ] Not 
even; not divifible into equal numbers.—What veritv 
there is in that numeral conceit, in the lateral divifion of' 
man by even and odd;. aferihing the odd unto the right 
fide, and the even unto the left; and fo, by parity or im- 
parity of letters in men’s names, to determine misfor¬ 
tunes. Brown's Vu'g. Err. 
This is the third time ; I hope 
Good luck lies in. odd numbers. Shakefpeare. 
More than a round number; indefinitely exceeding any 
number fpecified.—The account of the profits of Ulfter, 
from the fifth year of Edward Hid until the eighth, do 
amount but to nine hundred and odd pounds. Envies on 
Ireland. —Sixteen hundred and odd yeara'after the earth 
was made, it was deftroyed in a deluge of water. Burnet. 
—The year, without regard to days, ends with an odd day 
and odd hours, odd minutes and odd feconds of minutes ? 
fo that it cannot be meafured by any even number of days, 
hours, orminutes. Holder on Time. —Particular; uncouth ; 
extraordinary; not like others; not to be numbered among 
any clafs. In a lenfe of contempt or dillike.—When I 
broke loofe from writers who have employed their wit 
and parts in propagating of vice, I did not queftion but 
I fhould be treated as an odd kind of a fellow. Spectator. 
Her madnefs hath the oclcleft frame of fenfe, 
Such a dependency of thing on thing, 
As e’er I heard in madnefs. Shakefpeare's 3 Leaf. for Meet/. 
Of thee, kind boy, I afic no red-and-white, 
To make up my delight, 
No odd becoming graces, 
Black eyes, or little know-not-what’s in faces. Suckling. 
To counterpoife this hero of the mode, 
Some for renown are lingular and odd; 
What other men dillike is fure to pleafe, 
Of all mankind, thefe dear antipodes. Young. 
Not noted ; not taken into the common account; un¬ 
heeded.—There are yet miffing fome few odd lads that 
you remember not. Shakefpeare's Tempefi. 
I left him cooling of the air with fighs, 
In an odd angle of the ille. Shakefpeare's Tempefi. 
Strange; unaccountable ; fantaftical.—It is an odd way 
of uniting parties, to deprive a majority of part of their 
ancient right, by conferring it on a faftion who had never 
any right at all. Swift, 
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