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dular at the bafe; ftem arboreous. This is a fmall tree, 
with an upright even trunk, from twelve to fifteen feet 
high; the branches fpreading horizontally, bent down, 
warted, fubdivided, elliptic-elongated, alternate, fcat- 
tered, a foot and a half long, nodding, attenuated at the 
bafe, blunt at top, entire, very fmooth, nerved. Native 
of Jamaica, where it is frequently cultivated. It is called 
by the Englifii cobnut, by the French noifettier. The ker¬ 
nels are efculent and fapid, the cotyledons only being 
emetic. The branches and petioles, on being broken, 
pour out a tenacious watery liquor. Cultivated in 1763 
by Mr. Miller. It flowers in June and July. 
OMPHALO'BIUM, f. in botany. See Connarus. 
OMPHAL'OCELE, ./•’ [from the Gr. oytpaXo^, the na¬ 
vel, and a fwelling.] A kind of tumour or rupture 
in the navel. 
OMPHALO'IDES, f. in botany. See Cynoglossum. 
OMPHALOMAN'TIA, f. [from 0 pipaXot;, Gr. the na¬ 
vel.] A fort of diviftation pretended to by midwives and 
old women, of telling how many more children a woman 
is to have, by examining the number of knots on the 
tunbilical cord. 
OMPHALOP'TER, or Omphaloptic, f. in optics, a 
glafs that is convex on both fides 5 popularly called a con- 
vex lens. 
OM'PHALOS, f. [Greek.] The navel. 
OMPHALOTO'MIA, f. [from the Gr. op.tpa.'Ko^, and 
T5 m,i I'jj, to cut.] The operation of dividing the navel-firing. 
OMPOMPANOO'SHOOCH, a river of the fiate of 
Vermont, which runs into the Connecticut in lat. 4.3. 44. N. 
Ion. 72. 15. W. 
OMP'TAH, a town of Bengal: twenty-one miles weft 
of Calcutta. 
OMRADT'TY, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Berar: twenty miles Ibuth-foilth-eaft of Ellichpour, 
and 142 north-eaft of Aurungabad. Lat. 20. 55. N. Ion. 
78. 16. E. 
OM'RA, f. A man of the firft rank in the Mogul em¬ 
pire; a nobieman. See the article Hindoostan, vol. x. 
p. 176. 
OM'RI, [Heb. a thief.] A man’s name. Omri was ge¬ 
neral of the forces to Elah king of Ifrael. Informed, as 
he befieged, Gibbehon, that Zimri had murdered his maf- 
ter and his whole family, and ufurped the throne at Tir- 
zah, he halted thither, and laid fiege to the place. When 
Zimri found himfelf unable to defend the city againlt 
Omri, he, in the feventh day of his reign, burnt the pa¬ 
lace on himfelf and his family. For about four years 
there enfued a civil war between Omri and Tibni the 
Ion of Ginath. At laft, Tibni being dead, Omri obtained 
the throne, and reigned about eight years alone, and 
twelve in all. Having purchafed a hill from one Shemer, 
lie built a fine city thereon, and called it Samaria, and 
made it the capital of his kingdom. He was more wicked 
than Jeroboam, or any of his predecellors. He enabled 
a number of idolatrous laws, which were but too well ob- 
ferved many ages afterwards. He died at Samaria*. A. M. 
3086, and was lucceeded by Ahab. 1 Kings xvi. 15-29. 
OMSK, a town and fortrefs of Rufiia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobolik, on the river Ora, at its union with the 
Irtifch ; built in the year 1716, and lupplied with a con- 
fiderable garrifon. It is 260 miles fouth-eaft of Tobolik, 
and 324 fouth-weft of Narim. Lat. 55. 4. N. Ion. 74. 54. W. 
OMTCIIOU', a river of Thibet, which runs into the 
Nitchon near Tarendfong. 
OMU'RA, a town of Japan, in the illand of Ximo: 
fifteen miles north-north-eaft of Nangafaki. 
O'MY, adj. [on, Sn. Goth, irn, Ice), vapour; octm, Scot. 
fteam.'J Meliow : fpoken in the north, of land. Ray and 
Grofe. 
ON, prep, [ana, Goth, an, Germ, aen, Teut.] It is put 
before the word which fignifies that which is under, that 
by which any thing is fupported, which any thing ftrikes 
by falling, which any thing covers, or where any thing is 
fixed.— On me, on me, let all thy fury fall. Pope. 
O N 
As fome, to witnefs truth, Heav’n’s call obey. 
So fome on earth mull, to confirm it, ftay. Dryden. 
It is put before any thing that is the fubjeClof aClion : 
The unhappy hulband, hulband now no more ; 
Did on his tuneful harp his lofs deplore. Dry den. 
Noting addition or accumulation : 
Mifchiefs on mifehiefs, greater Hill and more ; 
The neighbouring plain with arms is cover’d o’er. Dryden. 
Noting a Hate of progreflion : 
Ho, Masris! whither on thy way fo fall ? 
This leads to town. Dryden. 
It fometimes notes elevation.—The fpacious firmament on 
high. Addijon. 
Choofe next a province for thy vineyard’s reign, 
On hills above, or in the lowly plain. Dryden. 
Noting approach, or invafion : 
Their navy ploughs the watery main, 
Yet foon expebl it on your Ihores again. Dryden. 
Noting dependance or reliance.—On God’s providence 
and on your bounty, all their prefent fupport and future 
hopes depend. Smalridge. —At, noting place : 
On each fide her, 
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like finding Cupids. Shakefp. 
It denotes the motive or occafion of any thing.—The joy 
of a monarch for the news of a viflory, mull not be ex- 
prefied like the eeftafy of a harlequin on the receipt of a 
letter from his miftrefs. Drydetis Dufrefnoy. —We abilain, 
on fuch lolemn occafions, from things lawful, out of indig¬ 
nation, that we have often gratified ourlelves in things 
unlawful. Smalridge's Sermons. —It denotes the time at 
which any thing happens; as, This happened on the firft 
day.— On is uled chiefly before day or hour, not before 
denominations of longer time.—In the fecond month, on 
the feven-and-twentieth day. Gen. viii. 14.—It is put be¬ 
fore the objebl of fome palfxon.—Companion on the king 
commands me ftoop. Shakejpeare. 
C ild tears recal him into wretched life ! 
Their forrow hurts themfelves; on him is loll. Dryden. 
*n forms of denunciation it is put before the thing 
threatened: 
Hence on thy life; the captive maid is mine. 
Whom not for price or prayers I will refign. Dryden. 
Noting imprecation: 
Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of you, 
That triumph thus upon my mifery! Shaltefpeare. 
Noting invocation: 
On thee, dear wife, in defarts all alone 
He call’d. *' Dryden',1 Georg. 
Noting the Hate of a thing fired. This fenfe feems pecu¬ 
liar, and is perhaps an old corruption of a-fire. —His fancy 
grows in the progrefs, and becomes on fire like a chariot- 
wheel by its own rapidity. Pope's Pref. to Iliad. 
The earth Ihook to fee the heavens on fire, 
And not in fear of your nativity. Shahefpeare's Hen. IV. 
Noting ftipulation or condition.—I can be fatisfied on 
more eafy terms. Dryden. —Noting diltinftion or oppofi- 
tion.—The Rhodians, on the other fide, mindful of their 
former honour, valiantly repulfed the enemy. Knolles. — 
Before it, by corruption, it Hands for of. — A thriving 
gamefier has but a poor trade on't, who fills his pockets at 
the price of his reputation. Locke on Education. 
This tempeft, 
Dafhing the garment of this peace, aboded 
The fudden breach on't. Shakejpeare'$ Hen. VIII. 
Noting the matter of an event.—Note how her grace is 
alter’d 
