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in their hands almoft 120 years, Ormus was loft by the 
Portuguefe. It ivac computed that, exclufive of jewels 
and rich merchandife, the plunder and ready-money 
amounted to above two millions. The articles of the ca¬ 
pitulation were but ill obferved, and the Perfian was not 
very fcrupulous in executing the treaty; fo that theEng- 
lifli were far from having their full fhare of booty, and, 
of what they did receive, the greateft part perifhed at 
fea. The Portuguefe made an attempt for the recovery 
ol Ormus, in which they might have been fuccefsful, if 
the viceroy at Goa had not, through want of capacity, 
indolence, or pique to the officer who commanded in that 
expedition, failed in his duty. After it once fell into the 
hands of the Perfians, the place was quickly ruined ; and 
the trade transferred to Bander Abaffi, or Gambroon. 
Lat. 27. 8. N. Ion. 56. 40. E. 
OR'MUZD, the Good Genius among the ancient 
Perfians. 
ORNACIEU'X, a town of France, in the department 
of the Ifere: fifteen miles eaft of Vienne. 
ORNA'IN, a river of France, which runs into the Marne 
near Vitry le Frangois. 
OR'NAMENT, f. [ornamentum, Lat. ] Embelliftiment; 
decoration : 
So may the outward ihows be lead themfelves : 
The world is ftill deceiv’d with ornament. Shahefpeare. 
Something that embelliihes. — Ivorie wrought in ornaments 
to decke the cheekes of horfe. Chapman .— No circum- 
ftances of life can place a man fo far below the notice of 
the world, but that his virtues or vices will render him, 
in fome degree, an ornament or difgrace to his profeffion, 
Rogers. 
The Tufcan chief, to me has fent 
Their crown, and every regal ornament. Dryclen. 
Honour; that which confers dignity.—They are abufed 
and injured, and betrayed from their only perfe&ion, 
whenever they are taught that any thing is an ornament 
in them that is not an ornament in the wifeft amongft man¬ 
kind. Law. —The perfons of different qualities in both 
fexes, are indeed allowed their different ornaments; but 
thefe are by no means coftly, being rather defigned as 
marks of diftinftion than to make a figure. AddiJ'on. 
To OR'NAMENT, v. a. To embelliffi ; to bedeck ; to 
adorn.—Thofe auguft towers of St. James’s, which, though 
neither feemly nor fublime, yet ornament the place where 
the balances are preferved, which weigh out liberty and 
property to the nations all abroad. Warhurlon to Hurd. 
Why droops my Damon, whilft he roves 
Through ornamented fields and groves ? Slienjlone. 
ORNAMEN'TAL, adj. Serving to decoration ; giving 
embelliftiment. — Some think it moft ornamental to wear 
their bracelets on their wrifts, others about their ancles. 
Brown. 
ORNAMEN'TALLY, adv. In fuch a manner as may 
confer embelliftiment. 
ORNAMEN'TALNESS, f. The ftate or quality of 
being ornamental. 
OR'NAN, [Heb. fignifying one that rejoices.] A man’s 
name. 
ORNA'NO, a town of the ifland of Corfica : ten miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Ajaccio. 
ORNAN'S, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrifr, in the department of the Doubs, containing 3500 
inhabitants : nine miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Befangon, 
and fourteen north-north-weft of Pontarlier. Lat. 47.6. N. 
Ion. 6.13. E. 
OR'NATE, adj. [ornatus , Lat. This is an old word 
in our language ; of which Milton feems to have been 
fond. It is in Huloet’s Dictionary.] Bedecked ; decora¬ 
ted ; fine.—Not in rude and old language, but in polyflied 
and ornate terms. Pref. to the Rohe of Eneydos; Caxton; 
1490. — A graceful ami ornate rhetorick, taught out of the 
rule of Plato. Milton on Education, 
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What thing of fea or land. 
Female of lex it feems, 
That fo bedeck’d, ornate, and gay, 
Comes this way failing ? Milton's S. A. 
To OR'NATE, v.a. To adorn ; to garniffi.—This is 
the expofition of the noble philofopher; which I have 
written, principally to the intent to ornate our language 
with ufing wordes in their proper fignification. Sir T. 
Elyot's Gov. 
ORNATELY, adv. Finely; with decoration; with 
embelliftiment.—To utter the mind aptly, diftinftly, and 
ornately , is a gift given to very few. Skerrye's Figures of 
Gramm r and R/iet 1555. 
With proper captations of benevolence 
Ornately pollylhed after your facultie. Shelton. 
ORNA'TENESS, J'. Finery; ftate of being embel- 
lifhed. 
OR'NATURE, f. Decoration.—His noble purpofewas 
this : to lave precious monumentes of auncient writers, 
which is a moll: worthy worke ; and fo to bring them from 
darknefle to a lyvely light, to the notable fame and or- 
nature of this land. Bale's Leland's New Year's Gift, 1 549. 
OR'NE, a river of France,which runs into the Sarte in 
the department of the Sarte. 
OR'NE, a river of France, which rifes about five miles 
eaft from Sees, in the department to which it gives name; 
pafies by Sees, Argentan, Clecy, Caen, &c. and runs 
into the Englifti Channel about three leagues below'Caen. 
Lat. 49. 23. N. Ion. o. 10. W. It gives name to the under¬ 
mentioned department. 
OR'NE, one of the nine departments of the north-weft 
region of France; compofed of the fouth part of Nor¬ 
mandy, and almoft the whole of Perche ; bounded on 
the north by the department of the Calvados, on the 
north-eaft by the department of the Eure, on the eaft by 
the department of the Eure and Loire, on the fouth by 
the departments of the Sarte and the Mayenne, and on 
the weft by the department of the Channel; 32 French 
leagues in length, and 15 in breadth, containing jjo 
fquare leagues, and 397,931 inhabitants; but Haffenfratz 
makes the number of inhabitants only 348,972. This 
department is traverfed from eaft to weft by a ridge of 
hills partially covered with forefts. Here are iron-mines 
and mineral lprings. Alengon is the capital. 
ORNEAU', a river of France, which runs into the Sam- 
bre fix miles below’ Chaftelet. 
OR'NES, a river of France, which rifes near Ornes, in 
the department of the Meufe, pafles by Eftain, &c. and 
runs into the Meufe eight miles fouth of Thionville. 
OR'NES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe : fix miles north-nortli-eaft of Verdun, and feven 
north-w'eft of Eftain. 
ORNISCOP'ICS, f. [from the Gr. opn a bird, and 
ffy-oma, to view'.] Omens or predictions, drawn from the 
flight, feeding, or other aCtions, of birds. 
ORNIS'COPIST, f. One who examines the flight of 
birds in order to foretel futurity. 
ORNITH'IftE, a wind blowing from the north in the 
fpring, and fo called from the appearance of birds, (0piSsj.) 
Columella. 
ORNITHID'IUM, f. in botany. See Epidendruj^ 
coccineum. 
ORNITHOGA'LI FA'CIE, in botany. SeeHypoxis. 
ORNITHOGA'LO AFFI'NIS. See Claytonia and 
Ornithooalum. 
ORNITHOG'ALUM, f. [an ancient name, adopted by 
the Latins from the Greeks, evidently derived from ogsts, 
o£h 9 os, a bird, and yx\cc, milk ; but its application has 
proved a ftumbling-block to moft etymologilts. Ainbro- 
finus prefumes the word may allude, either to the Hu¬ 
lling milky white of the flowers, or to the white bulbs, 
or roots. Tournefort fuppoles the flowers, being 
green when clofed, and white when expanded, may have 
been compared to the wings of feveral birds. Linnaeus 
