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and manner, Arniaud agreed with the captain for five 
hundred fequins, which he paid down, and, putting Of- 
man on-hoard a bark of his own, fent him medical aflift- 
ance, and every thing neceflary for liis recovery. When 
cured, Ofman propofed to him to write to Conftantinople 
for re-payment of what he had advanced, and defired to 
be difmiffed upon his parole. Arniaud would not be ge¬ 
nerous by halves; but gave Ofman permiffion to take the 
bark, and difpofe of it as he pleafed. He immediately 
fet fail for Damietta, whence he afcended the Nile to 
Cairo. He there paid the captain one thoufand fequins 
oil account of his benefaftor, and prefented him with two 
rich peliffes for liimfelf. He executed his commifiion, re¬ 
turned happily to Conftantinople, and was himfelf the 
bearer of the news of his captivity. His gratitude to Ar¬ 
niaud terminated only with his life; and, during all the 
fteps of his elevation, he never intermitted a correfpond- 
ence of letters and prefents with him. He even extended 
liis beneficence to all the Frenchmen with whom he had 
any concern. 
In 1715, war having been declared between the Turks 
and the Venetians, the grand vizier Ali, intending to in¬ 
vade the Morea, affembled his army in the neighbourhood 
of the ifthmus of Corinth, and gave in charge to Ofman 
to force the pafiage, which he effected, and at the fame 
time carried the city of Corinth by ftorm. In recom- 
penfe, he was made a bafhaw of two tails. He afted as 
fecond at the fiege of Corfu in 1716; and, when it was 
raifed, he remained three days after the general, to favour 
the retreat of the troops, not withdrawing till they were 
in fafety. He was appointed feralkier, or chief commander 
in the Morea, in 172.2, on which occafion he requefted 
Arniaud to fend him one of his fons, that he might give 
him a lucrative employment. He next rofe to the rank 
of a baftiaw of three tails, and was nominated to the go¬ 
vernment of Romelia. In 1731, Ofman was called to the 
high dignity of grand vizier. He caufed Arniaud to be 
informed of this promotion, who, with his fon, vifited 
Conftantinople on the occafion, bringing wdth him twelve 
Turkifli captives whom he had ranfomed. The vizier re¬ 
ceived them in the prefence of the great officers of the 
empire, to whom he related the ftory of his benefaftor’s 
generofity to him, adding, “ Where is the Muffulman 
capable of fuch an aftion ?” He treated them with the 
moll affectionate familiarity, and gave them fubftantial 
proofs of his kindnefs. Ofman in 1732 was depofed, more 
to the regret of the people, to whom he had reftored 
plenty, than to his own ; and he felicitated himfelf that 
lie left his place with a good confidence, and without for¬ 
feiting the regard of his fovereign. Fie fet out for the 
government of Trebifond, to which he had been ap¬ 
pointed ; but, by the way, he received an order to take the 
command of the Turkifli army in Perfia. In July 1733, 
he fought a bloody battle with Thomas Kouli-Khan, in 
which the Ottoman arms were victorious; and his fuccefs 
was rewarded with an accefiion of power and dignity. A 
fecond battle, however, in the following September, 
proved extremely difaftrous to the Turks, and fatal to 
Ofman, who was killed in the field by two mufket-fhots. 
Frazer's Life of Nadir Shah, 1742. 
OSMAND'GIK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the go¬ 
vernment of Sivas : 140 miles north-weft of Sivas, and 
eighty fouth of Sinob. Lat.40.45.N- Ion. 35. 10. E. 
CSMAN'TKUS, J'. in botany. See Olea. 
OS'MI, a town of Dagheftan : twenty-eight miles 
north-weft, of Defbund. 
OS'MINGTON, a village in Dorfetfhire, near Wey¬ 
mouth ; where is a quarry of ftone called Horfefieffi. On 
the fouth fide of the church-yard was a burial-place for 
the anabaptifts ; now an orchard. The church is a large 
ancient ftrufture, with fome ancient grave-ftones. 
OSMI'FES,/’. [from 0j7-p.il, Gr. odour; on account of 
its powerful lweet fmelh] In botany-, a genus of the clafs 
fyngenefia, order polygamia. fruftranea, natural order of 
compofitae difcoideae, (corymbiferse, Jujf.) Generic cha- 
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rafters—Calyx: common imbricate, gibbous; with the 
inmoft leaflets augmented at the tip. Corolla: compound 
radiate; corollets hermaphrodite, feveral in the difk; fe¬ 
male in the ray. Proper of the hermaphrodite tubular, 
five-cleft; of the femaleligulate, entire. Stamina: in the 
hermaphrodite; filaments five, very ftiort; anther cylin¬ 
drical, tubular. Piftillum: in the hermaphrodites; ger- 
men oblong; ftyle filiform, the length of the corollet; 
ftigma bifid. In the females, germen fmaller; ftyle fili¬ 
form, the length of the corollet; ftigma obfolete. Peri- 
carpium : none; calyx unchanged. Seeds: in the her¬ 
maphrodites folitary, oblong; with fcarcely any pappus, 
or only margined; the pappus obfolete and fomewhat 
chaffy: in the females, rudiments commonly abortive. 
Receptacle : chaffy.— Effential Char after. Calyx imbri¬ 
cate, fcariofe ; corolla of the ray ligulate; down obfolete ; 
receptacle chaffy. There are five fpecies. 
1. Ofmites bellidiaftrum, or hyffop-leaved ofmites: 
leaves linear, flelhy; ftems fcariofe. Branches woody and 
thickifh. Leaves oblong, narrow, acute, nearly of the 
fame form and fize with thofe of hyffop, feflile all over the 
branches to the very flowers, which are feveral in num¬ 
ber, at the ends of the ftems and branches; the difk of 
them is yellow, and the ray white. 
2. Ofmites dentata, or toothed ofmites: leaves obo- 
vate, toothed, villofe. Adopted on the authority of 
Thunberg. 
3. Ofmites camphorina, or fweet-fmelling ofmites: 
leaves lanceolate, fubferrate, toothed at the bafe. Stems 
quite Ample, with one peduncled flower. Leaves like 
thofe of Chryfanthemum leucanthemum, or ox-eye daify, 
tooth-ferrate, naked, gradually fmaller towards the top; 
they are feflile, alternate, cluftered, tomentofe. Ray of 
the corolla white; difk yellow. It has a very ftrong fmell 
of camphor, whence both its names. See the Plate, fig. 1. 
4. Ofmites afterifcoides, or faint-fmelling ofmites : 
leaves lanceolate, obfoleteiy-ferrulated. Stem thick. 
Leaves alternate, thickly fet, (lightly embracing the ftem. 
Flowers capitate, terminal, feflile, yellowifh-white. The 
fmell of camphor is not fo ftrong in this fpecies as in the 
preceding. See fig. 2. 
5. Ofmites calycina: leaves lanceolate, naked ; calyxes 
fcariofe. Stem erect. Leaves fcattered, ereft, narrow- 
lanceolate, naked, or very little pubefcent, nerved un¬ 
derneath. Flowers terminating, folitary, feflile; corolla 
yellow. 
Thefe are all fhrubs, natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 
This laft fpecies is made a diltinft genus, Lapeyroulia, by 
Thunberg and Wildenow. 
OS'MIUM, f. See the article Mineralogy, vol. xv. 
p. 508. 
OS'MOND (St ), was born in Normandy, of a noble 
family. In 1066 he followed the fortunes of William, 
who became the conqueror of England, and who made 
him the chancellor of this kingdom, and nominated him 
to the bifhopric of Salifbury. He reformed the liturgy 
for his diocefe, which form afterwards became general 
throughout the kingdom, under the name of the Salifbury 
Liturgy. He died in 1099, and was canonized by Ca- 
lixtus III. 
OS'MONDS, f. in our old writers, a kind of iron an¬ 
ciently brought into England. It is mentioned in flat. 
32 Hen. VIII. c. 14. 
OS'MONDSTON, or Schole, a village in Norfolk, on 
the north fide of the river Waveney, in the road from 
Ipfvvich to Norwich, it being on the borders of Suffolk. 
In the reign of Edward III. Schole was only a hamlet to 
Ofmondfton; but was fo increafed in the reign of 
Henry VIII. as to become the chief part of the town. 
Here is the White Hart, called the Schole inn, formerly 
remarked for its fine carved-work, and images as big as 
the life. It is ninety-three miles from London. 
OSMOR'ZSKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Kolivan, on the Irtifch : 201 miles weft-fouth-well of 
Kolivan. Lat. 53. 15. N, Ion. 76.14. E. 
OS'MUND, 
