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Europe and America. This is fhown on the Plate of 
Onchidium, &c. p. 485. fig. 27. 
4. Opatrum gibb.um : black ; fhells with numerous ob- 
folete raifed lines. It inhabits Sweden, on fand-banks. 
5. Opatrum laevigatum ; black; lliield pitchy in front; 
Ihells fubltriate. It inhabits New Holland. 
6. Opatrum crenatum ; black ; thorax with a crenate 
edge, the fore-angle projecting, the hind one fpinous ; 
ihells with crenate ftriae. It inhabits Sweden, on fandy 
plains. 
7. Opatrum glabratum : black; thorax and ihells 
fmoo'th and cinereous. It is found in the Eait Indies. 
8. Opatrum arenarium : grey; iliells ilriate. It is 
found at the Cape of Good Hope. 
9. Opatrum clathratum: black; iliells with punCtured 
itriae. Inhabits Cayenne. 
10. Opatrum plagum : deprefied, black, opaque; iliells 
ftriate, fmooth. Inhabits Siberia. 
11. Opatrum granulatum : black ; edge of the thorax 
fomewhat reflected ; the ihells have three raifed lines, the 
interftices punCtured. It inhabits the fandy plains of 
Barbary. 
12. Opatrum Orientale: cinereous; thorax and iliells 
rugged; fore flianks dilated, triangular. It is found in 
the fandy plains of the Eait. 
13. Opatrum tibiale : black; iliells punCtured, a little 
rugged ; fore-ihanks two-toothed at the bafe. 
14. Opatrum agricola: black; thorax fmooth; iliells 
ftriate. It inhabits Germany, and is a very fmall infeCt. 
13. Opatrum minutum: cinereous; thorax rough; 
iliells with four raifed lines. It is found in Sweden, and 
is very fmall. 
16. Opatrum pufillum : cinereous, thorax rough ; iliells 
with many ftrise. It is fmall, and inhabits Hungary. 
17. Opatrum quifquiliarum : black ; thorax granulate, 
fmooth in the middle; iliells very fmooth. 
18. Opatrum cinereum : black, clouded with cinere¬ 
ous; the ihells have punCtured grooves. It inhabits 
India. See the fame Engraving, fig. 28. 
19. Opatrum melinum; ochraceous, fmooth; thorax 
and ihells faintly punCtured. It is found in Germany; 
and is thought not to belong to this genus. 
20. Opatrum cineterium : bay, elongated ; iliells flat, 
very fmooth. It inhabits Pomerania. 
21. Opatrum bipuftulatum : ferruginous ; ihells faintly 
grooved. This alio is found in Pomerania. 
2z. Opatrum lithophilus: black, beneath fcarlet; thorax 
fcarlet, .emarginate, pointed at the corners behind ; the 
iliells are very fmooth ; the tarfi are three-jointed. It in¬ 
habits Germany, and, like the melinum, is of a doubtful 
genus. 
23. Opatrum monilicorne ; brown; thorax and iliells 
villous. It inhabits Germany. 
24. Opatrum filphoide : black, fmooth ; thorax dilated 
backw-ards ; ihells with punCtured itriae, and two fulvous 
bands. It is found on the oak fungus. 
*5. Opatrum unipunCtatum : brown, hairy; thorax fub- 
cylindric, emarginate, with a hollow in the middle ; the 
two laft joints of the antennae diilant and larger. 
2 6. Opatrum bipunCtatum : brown; thorax fub-cylin- 
dric, emarginate, with two hollows ; the two laft joints of 
the antennae dirtant and larger. 
27. Opatrum teftaceum: teftaceous ; the eyes, thorax, 
iliells, and antennae, are brown, the latter rufous at the 
bafe and tip; ihells with a large teftaceous lunule at the 
bale ; thorax with two impreffed dots. It inhabits Eu¬ 
rope ; iliells punCtured and ftriate. 
28. Opatrum brunneum; reddiili-browm, with yellow 
down ; iliells faintly punCtured, ftriate, with fix yellow 
fpots ; antennae and legs pale-yellow. 
OPDAEL'SCHOW, a town of Norway', in the pro¬ 
vince of Drontheim: eight miles fouth-weft of Dron- 
theim. 
OP'DAL, a town of Norway, in the province of Dron¬ 
theim ; fifty-four miles fouth of Drontheim. 
To OPE, or O'pen, v. a [open, Sax. op, Teel, own, Gr. a 
hole. Ope is ufed only in poetry, when one fyllable is 
more convenient than two.] To unclofe ; to unlock ; to 
piu into i’uch a ftate as that the inner parts may be feen 
or entered.—The draw-bridges at Amiterdam part in the 
middle, and a velfel, though under fail, may pafs them 
without the help of any one on-fhore; for the maft-head, 
or break-water, of the iliip, bearing againlt the bridge in 
the middle, opens it. Brown. 
The world’s mine oyfter, 
Which I with fword will open. Shahefpeare. 
Adam, now ope thine eyes; and firft behold 
The elfeCts which thy original crime hath wrought 
In fome, to fpring from thee. Milton's P. L. 
To fliow ; to difeover.—The Englifh did adventure far 
for to open the north parts of America. Abbot's Defc. of 
the World. —To divide; to break.—The wall of the ca¬ 
thedral-church was opened by an earthquake, and ftiut 
again by a fecond. Acldifon on Italy. —To explain ; to dif- 
clofe.—Some things wifdom openeth by the facred books 
of Scripture, fome things by the glorious works of nature. 
Hooker. —Paul reafoned with them out of the Scriptures, 
opening • and alleging that Chrift mud needs have fullered 
and rilen again from the dead. Ads xv ii. 3.—Gramont, 
governour of Bayonne, took an exquilite notice of their 
perfons and behaviour, and opened himfelf to fome of his 
train, that he thought them to be gentlemen of much 
more worth than their habits bewrayed. Wotton. —To be¬ 
gin ; to make the initial exhibition.—Homer opens his 
poem with the utmoll fimplicity and tnodefty; he conti¬ 
nually grow's upon the reader. Notes on the Odyffey. 
To OPE, or O'pen, v. n. To unclofe itfelf 3 not to re- 
main ihut; not to continue clofed ; 
The hundred doors 
Ope of themfelves ; a ruining whirlwind roars 
Within the cave. Dry den's H 3 n. 
To bark. A term of hunting. —If I cry out thus upon no¬ 
trail, never trull; me when I open again. ShaheJpeare's M. 
Wives of Windfor. 
Hark ! the dog opens, take thy certain aim ; 
The woodcock flutters. Gay's Rural Sports. 
OPE, or O'pen, adj. \_Ope is fcarcely ufed but by old 
authors, and, by them, in the primitive, not figurative, 
fenfe.] Unclofed; not Ihut.—Then fent Sanballat his 
fervant, with an open letter in his hand. Nek. vi. 5. 
The gates are ope; now prove yourfelves good feconds; 
’Tis for the followers fortune widens them ; 
Not for the fliers. ShaheJpeare's Coriolanus. 
Moll facrilegious murder hath broke ope 
The lord's anointed temple, and Hole thence 
The life o’ the building. ShaheJpeare's Macbeth. 
He, when Alneas on the plain appears, 
Meets him with open arms and falling tears. Dryden. 
Plain; apparent; evident; public.—They crucify to them¬ 
felves the Son of God afrefli, and put him to an opm 
fiame. Heb. vi. 6.—He, irefully enrag’d, would needs to 
open arms. Drayton. 
The under-work, tranfparent, Ihews too plain: 
Where open aCts accufe, th’ excufe is vain. Daniel. 
Not wearingd.ifguife ; clear; artlefs ; fincere.—The French 
are always open, familiar, and talkative ; the Italians fluff, 
ceremonious, and referved. Addijbn. 
His generous, open, undefigning, heart, 
Has begg’d his rival to folicit for him. Addijbn's Cato, 
Not clouded ; clear : 
With dry eyes, and with an openlook, 
She met his glance midway. Dryden's Boecaee. 
Not hidden ; expofed to view.—Moral principles require 
realoning and difeourfe to difeover the certainty of their 
truths: 
