GS2 ' ORA 
Virginia: feventeen miles weF-fouth-weF of Frederickf- 
burg. 
OR'ANGE TOWN, a town of Wafhington-county, 
in the Fate of Maine: nineteen miles from Machias. 
OR'ANGE TOWN, or Greenland, a plantation in 
Cumberland-county, and Fate of Maine, in America, 
north-weF of Waterford. This is a mountainous coun¬ 
try, fome of its mountains having precipices zoo feet 
perpendicular. The fides of the mountains and the val¬ 
leys are fertile, producing good crops, and, in fome in- 
Fances, affording wild onions, which refemble thofe that 
are cultivated. Winter rye, which is the chief produce, 
has amounted to twenty bufhels on an acre. The neigh¬ 
bouring country formerly abounded with variety of game, 
fuch as moofe-deer, bears, beavers, racoons, fables. See. 
but, fince it has been inhabited, game is become fcarce. 
OR'ANGE TOWN, oi'Tap'pan, a town of the Fate 
of New York, near the weF coaF of the Hudfon, which 
here widens, and continues fo for feveral miles to the 
fouth, and is called the Tappan Sea. At this place major 
Andre was hanged as a lpy. See the article America, 
vol. i. p.461. It is twenty-three miles north of New- 
York. Lat.41.4. N. Ion. 73. 50. W. 
OR'ANGE-TREE, f. The tree that bears oranges: 
Flora herfelf to th’ orange-tree lays claim, 
Calls it her own : Pomona does the fame. Tate's Cowley. 
In the Philofophical Tranfaftions, N° 114, there is a very 
remarkable account of a tree Fanding in. a grove near 
Florence, having aa orange-Fock, which had been fo 
grafted upon, that it became, in its branches, leaves, flow¬ 
ers, and fruit, three-formed: fome emulating the orange, 
fome the lemon or citron, and fome partaking of both 
forms in one ; and, what was very remarkable, thefe mixed 
fruits never produced any perfect feeds: fometimes there 
were no feeds at all in them, and fometimes only a few 
empty ones. 
OR'ANGE-WENCH, f A girl who fells oranges. 
OR'ANGE-WIFE, or Orange-Woman, f. A woman 
who fells oranges.—You wear out a good wholefome fore¬ 
noon in hearing a caufe between an orange-wife and a fof- 
fet-feller. Shahe/'peare. 
ORANGEA'DE, f. A drink made of orange-juice, 
fugar, and water. 
OR'ANGE BURG, a diFrifl: of South Coro! ina, bounded 
fouth-weF by EdiFo-river: it is divided into three coun¬ 
ties, viz. Lottifburg, Orange, and Lexington. In its in¬ 
terior are extenlive foreFs of pine. It is vvotered by the 
north and fouth branches of EdiFo-river; and contains 
13,229 inhabitants, of whom 6564 are (laves.—Alfo, a poF- 
town of South Carolina, and capital of the above diFribt, 
on the ealt fide of the north branch of EdiFo-river.; con¬ 
taining a court-houfe, gaol, and about twenty houfes : 
feventy-feven miles. north-north-weF of CharleFon. 
OR'ANGERY, f. Plantation of oranges.—The oran¬ 
gery of Verfailles is the moF magnificent that ever was 
built: it has wings, and is decorated with aTufcan order. 
Chambers . —A kitchen-garden is a more pleafant fight than 
the fineF orangery, or artificial green-houfe. Spectator. 
ORA'NIENBAUM, a town of Germany, in the du¬ 
chy of Anhalt Deflau ; founded in the year 1688. It is 
fix miles fouth-eaF of Deffau, and ten weF fouth-weF of 
Wittenberg. Eat. 51. 48. N. Ion. 12. 28. E. 
ORA'NIENBAUM, a town of Ruflia, in the Gulf of 
Finland. Here is a royal palace, firF built by prince 
MenzikoF’, afterwards converted into an hofpital; but 
much ufed as a refidence by the emperor Peter III. It is 
twenty miles weF of Peterfburg. Lat. 59. 52. N. Ion. 29. 
26. E. 
ORA'NIENBURG, a tpwn of Brandenburg, in the 
Middle Mark, anciently called Boetzow, fituated on the 
Havel. It contains two churches. In the year 1699, a 
colony of the Vaudois was eFablilhed here, after being 
driven from their country on account of their religion. 
In the year 1671, this place was deFroyed by fire. It is 
ORA 
eighteen miles north of Berlin, and twenty-eight north- 
north-eaF of Potzdam. Lat. 52. 45. N. Ion, 13. 19. E. 
ORANMO'RE, a poF-town of Ireland, in the county 
of Galway : ninety-eight miles weF-by-fouth from Dub¬ 
lin, and five eafi from Galway. 
ORANSA'Y. SeeORONSAY. 
ORA'RIUM, f. in old records, the hem of a garment; 
a kind of veffment worn by the prieFs. 
ORAR'NE, a fmall ifland, on the weF fide of the Gulf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 60. 42. N. Ion. 17. 7. E. 
ORATA'VA a feaport-town on the weF fide of the 
ifland of Teneriffe, and the chief place of trade; but the 
harbour is unfafe in a north-weF wind. It contains one 
church, and feveral convents ; and is five miles north of 
Laguna. A very deFrudfive fire happened here in the 
month of April, 1816. 
ORA'TION,/. [Fr. oratio, Lat.] A fpeech made ac¬ 
cording to the laws of rhetoric; an harangue; a declama¬ 
tion.—This gives life and fpirit to every thing that is 
fpoken, awakens the dulleF fpirits, and adds a Angular 
grace and excellency both to the perfion and his oration • 
Watts. 
There fhall I try, 
In my oration, how the people take 
The cruel ifl‘ue of thefe bloody men. Shakcfpeare. 
To ORA'TION, v. n. To make a fpeech; to harangue. 
Not in ufe. —They gave anfwers with great fufficiency, 
touching all difficulties concerning their own lav/, and 
had marvellous promptitude both for orationing and giv¬ 
ing judgement. Donne's Hijl. of the Septuagint. 
OR'ATOR, f. [oratcur, Fr. orator, Lat.] A public 
fpeaker; a man of eloquence.—It would be altogether 
vain and improper, in matters belonging to an orator , to 
pretend to Frict demor.Fration. Wilkins. 
As when of old fome orator renown’d, 
In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence 
Flourifli’d, fince mute ! to fome great caufe addrefs’d. 
Stood in himfelf collected ; while each part, 
Motion, each a6t, won audience. Milton's P. L. 
A petitioner. This fenfe is ufed in addrejfes to chancery. 
Orator, among the Romans, difiered from a patronus. 
The latter was allowed only to plead caufes on behalf of 
his clients ; whereas the former might quit the forum, and 
afeend the roFra or tribunal, to harangue the fenate or the 
people. The orators had rarely a profound knowledge of 
the law; but they were eloquent, and their Fyle was ge¬ 
nerally correct and concife. They were employed in 
caufes of importance, infiead of the common patrons. 
Orators in the violence of elocution ufed all the warmth 
of gelture, and even walked backwards and forwards 
with great heat and emotion. This it was which occa- 
fioned a witticifm of Flavius Virginius, who aflted one of 
thofe walking orators, Quot millia paffhum declamdjfetl 
“ How many miles he had declaimed ?” 
Similar to the Roman orators were the Grecian rhetores. 
Thefe, atnongF the Athenians, were ten in number, and 
were elected by lot to plead public caufes in the fenate- 
houfe or afl’embly. For every caufe in which they were 
retained, they received a drachm out of the public money. 
No man was admitted to this office before he was forty 
years of age, though others fay thirty. Valour in war, 
piety to their parents, prudence in their affairs, frugality, 
and temperance, were neceffary qualifications for this 
office ; and every candidate underwent an examination 
concerning thefe virtues, previous to the elebfion. 
Public Orator, an office of very confiderable dignity, 
and of fome emolument, in the Englifh univerfities. The 
public orator is the principal, and in many cafes the only 
oFenfible, agent for the univerfity in all thofe matters or 
forms which are merely external. He carries on, or fu- 
perintends, all correfpondences which are calculated to 
promote the dignity, or raife the utility, of the feminary 
which conFitutes him. He has little to do, indeed, with 
th$ internal government of the body, for which a variety 
