694 ORB 
ORBIC'ULARNESS, f. The ftate of being orbicular. 
ORBIC'ULATED, adj. Moulded into an orb. 
ORBICULA'TION, f. State of being moulded into 
an orb or circle.— It might have been more fignificantly 
called orbiculation, feeing this circumfufion makes not 
only a circle, but fills a fphere. More's Song of the Soul. 
ORBIC'ZE, or Worlitz, a river of Bohemia, which 
runs into the Elbe near Pardubitz. 
ORBIEU', a river of France, which rifes in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eaftern Pyrenees, and runs into the Aude 
five miles north-weft of Narbonne. 
ORBI'GA, a river of Spain, which runs into the Duero 
near Zamora ; anciently called Urbicus. 
ORBIL'IUS PUPIL'LUS, a grammarian of Beneven- 
turp, who was the firft inftrudlor of the poet Horace. He 
came to Rome in the con fulfil ip of Cicero, and there, as 
a public teacher, acquired more fame than money. He 
was naturally of a fevere difpofition, of which his pupils 
often felt the effects. He lived almoft to his 100th year, 
and loft his memory fome time before his death. Suet.de 
Illvft. Gr. 
OR'BION, a lake of the ifiand of Corfica, near the 
fea, on the eaft coaft: tvventy-feven miles fouth-eaft of 
Corte. 
OR'BIT, f. [orbita, Lat.] The path of a planet or co¬ 
met, or the line deferibed by its centre in its proper mo¬ 
tion in the heavens.'—The Sun’s, or rather the Earth’s, 
orbit, is the curve which it pafles along in its annual re¬ 
volution, called the ecliptic. The orbit of the Earth, and 
that of all the primary planets, is an ellipfis, in one of 
•whofe foci the fun is placed ; in which ellipfis they move 
according to this law, that a radius drawn from the cen¬ 
tre of the fun to the centre of the planet, always de- 
feribes areas proportional to the times. The ancient af- 
tronomers made the planets deferibe circular orbits with 
an uniform velocity : Copernicus liimfelf could not be¬ 
lieve they fliould do other wife. But after him came af- 
tronomers, who, with a little more phyfics, have made 
r.o difficulty of changing thefe circular orbits into ellip¬ 
tical ones, and of making them move with different ve¬ 
locities in different parts of thefe orbits. The lemidiame- 
ter of the Earth’s orbit is now ftated to be 94,696,969 
miles Englilh, and the feniidiameter of Saturn’s orbit, 
about ten times as great. The orbits of the planets are 
not all in the fame plane as the ecliptic, or the Earth’s 
orbit round the Sun ,- but are varioufiy inclined to it, and 
to one another: but Hill the plane of the ecliptic inter- 
fe£is the plane of the orbit of every planet in a right 
line, which pafles through the Sun. Chambtrs. 
Suppofe more funs in proper orbits roll’d, 
Diffolv’d the fnows and chas’d the polar cold. Blackmore. 
The cavity in which the eye is placed.-—Afmailorb. Not 
proper. 
Attend, and you difeem it in the fair 
Conduft and finger, or reclaim a hair, 
Or roll the lucid orbit of an eye, 
Or in full joy elaborate a figh. Young. 
ORBITEL'LO, a town in the Siennefe, but belonging 
to Naples. It is fituated on the eaft fide of a lake, near 
the coaft of the Mediterranean, with a good harbour, 
and well fortified : Jixty-nve miles north-weft of Rome, 
and feventy-eight fouth of Florence. Lat. 42. 31. N. Ion. 
11. 6. E. 
OR'BITUDE, or Orbity, f. [from orbits , Lat. defti- 
tute.] Lofs 6r want of parents or children ; lofs of huf- 
band or wife ; any privation.—Confidering the frequent 
mortality in friends and relations in fuch a term of time, 
he may pafs away divers years in forrow and black habits, 
and leave none to mourn for liimfelf ; orbity may be his 
inheritance. Browne's C/ir. Mor. 
She’s in orbity; 
At once receiver, and the legacy. Donne's Poems. 
ORBO'NA, in mythology, a goddefs worfliipped at 
Rome, who was invoked in behalf of orphans, or to 
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comfort fathers and mothers for the lofs of their chil¬ 
dren. 
OR'BOZ, a town of Grand Bukharia, on the B a mi an ; 
fifteen miles fouth of Balk. 
OR'BY, adj. Refembling an orb. Not ufed .— It fmote 
Atrides’ orbie targe j but runne not through the brafle. 
Chapman. 
When now arraid 
The world was with the fpririg, and orbie lioures 
Elad gone the round againe through herbs and flowers. 
Chapman. 
OR'BY, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland : twenty- 
eight miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Gotheburg. 
ORC, f. [orca , Lat. from o^vyu., Gr.] A fea-fiffi ; a 
fpecies of whale, or more probably the grampus, Del- 
phinus orca.— Orbs, that for their lord the ocean wooe. 
Drayton's Polyolb. —Proteus’ herds, and Neptune’s orbs, 
B. jon/bn's MaJ'ques. 
An ifiand fait and bare, 
The haunt of feals and ores, and fea-mews clang. Milton . 
OR'CADES, iflands on the northern coafts of Britain, 
now called the Orkneys, which fee. They were un¬ 
known til) Britain was difeovered to be an ifiand by 
Agricola, who prefided there as governor. Tacit, in 
Agrie. 
ORCH, or Or'chanet. See Orchis. 
OR'CHAL, or Orchil. See Archil, vol. ii. 
OR'CHAMPS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Jura : nine miles weft of Quingey, and feven north- 
eaft of Dole. 
OR'CHAMPS EN VEN'NES, a town of France, in 
the department of the Doubs : fifteen miles eaft of Ornans, 
and fourteen north-north-eaft of Pontarlier. 
OR'CHAMUS, in fabulous hi (lory, a king of Affyria, 
father of Leucothoe by Eurynome. He buried his 
daughter alive for her amours with Apollo. 
OR'CH ARD, f. [either hortyard or wort yard, fays Skin¬ 
ner ; from op’cgeapb, Sax. It fignified formerly a gar¬ 
den in general; from urt, Goth, an herb, and gard, a 
hedge 5 hortus, Lat. Milton writes the word orchat, 
probably from the Gr. oy/a\ 0?.] A garden of fruit-trees. 
—Planting of orchards is very profitable, as well as plea- 
fureable. Bacon s Advice to Vitliers. —His parfonage-houfe 
from an incommodious ruin he had rendered a fair and 
pleafant dwelling, with the conveniences of gardens and 
orchards. Fell. 
'T hey overcome their riches not by making 
Baths, orchards, filh-pools. B.Jonfon. 
Her private orchards, wall’d on ev’ry fide, 
To lawlefs fylvans all accefs deny’d. Pope. 
In planting an orchard, great attention fliould be paid 
to the nature of the foil; and fuch forts of fruits only 
fliould be cliofen as are heft adapted to the ground de- 
figned for planting, otherwife there can be little hopes 
ot their fucceeding ; and it is for want of rightly obfer- 
ving this method, that we fee in many countries orchards 
planted, which never arrive to any tolerable degree of per¬ 
fection ; the trees ftarving, and their bodies either co¬ 
vered with mofs, or the bark cracked and divided, both 
which are evident figns of the weaknefs of the trees j 
whereas, if inftead of apples the orchard had been plant¬ 
ed with pears, cherries, or any other fort of fruit better 
adapted to the foil, the trees might have grown very well, 
and produced great quantities of fruit. <• 
As to the pofition of the orchard, (if you are at full 
liberty to choofe,) a riling ground, open to the fouth-eaft, 
is to be preferred ; but by no means plant upon the fide 
of a hill where the declivity is very great; for in fuch 
places the great rains commonly wadi down the better 
part of the ground, whereby the trees would be deprived 
of proper nourifhment; but, where the rife is gentle, it 
is of great advantage to the trees, by admitting the fun. 
and air between them, better than it can upon an entire 
a level; 
