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tlemen has pnblifhed “Some of Offian’s leffer Poems, 
rendered into verfe ; with a Preliminary Difcourfe, in 
anfwer to Mr. Laing.” But the lateft, and by far the molt 
refpeflable, tradt on this fide of the controverfy which 
we have feen, is an “Effayon the Authenticity of the 
Poems of Odian, in which the ObjedHons of Malcolm 
J.aing, Efq. are particularly confidered and refuted ; by 
Patrick Graham, D.D. Minifter of Aberfoyle. To which 
is added, an ElTay on the Mythology of OlTian’s Poems, 
by Profeffor Richardfon, of Glafgow College.” Our 
limits, however, preclude us from entering farther into 
this controverfy, which indeed we think abfolutely fet¬ 
tled by what we have already adduced. But we may 
refer our readers to the Monthly Review' for December 
1810, where that work and four others are examined with 
great judgment and liberality; and we may add, that Dr. 
Graham’s work is w'ritten with fome degree of elegance, 
and, what is not ufual in controverfy, with temper and 
moderation. 
OSS'ICLE, /! [ officulnm , Eat.] A final! bone.—There 
are three very little bones in the ear, upon whofe right 
conftirution depends the due tendon of the tympanum ; 
and, if the aclion of one little mufcle, which ferves to 
draw one of thefe officles fixt to the tympanum, be loft 
or abated, the tenfion of that membrane ceafing, found 
is hindered from coming into the ear. Holder on Speech. 
OSSIF'IC, adj. [from the Lat. os, a bone, and/«rio, to 
make.] Having the pow'er of making bone, or changing 
carneous or membraneous to bony fubftance.— If the 
caries be fuperficial, and the bone firm, you may, by me¬ 
dicaments, confume the moifture in the caries, dry the 
bone, and difpofe it, by virtue of its oQ'ific faculty, to 
thru ft out callus, and make feparation of its caries. 
Wifeman. 
OSSIFICA'TION, f. Change of carneous, membra¬ 
nous, or cartilaginous, into bony fubftance.— Offifications 
or indurations of the artery, appear fo conftantly in the 
beginnings of aneurifms, that it- is not eafy to judge 
whether they are the caufe or the effeft of them. Sharp. 
OSSIFRA'GA, f. in botany. See Euphorbia. 
OSS'IFRAGE, '( [ ojjfragus , or bone-breaker, Lat.] A 
kind of eagle.—The ojj'ifragus, or ofprey, is thus called, 
becaufe it breaks the bones of animals in order to come 
at the marrow. It is faid to dig up bodies in church¬ 
yards, and eat what it finds in the bones, which has been 
the occafion that the Latins call it avis bujlaria. Calmet. — 
See, however, Ospray. —Among the fowls that (hall not be 
eaten,are the eagle,the offrage, and theofpray. Lev.x i. 13. 
OSSIF'RAGOUS, adj. [from the Lat. os, a bone, and 
frango, fo break.] Breaking the bones. 
OSSIFR AN'GENT, adj. Breaking the bones. 
To OSS'IFY, v. a. To change to bone.—The dilated 
aorta every-where in the neighbourhood of the cyft is ge¬ 
nerally ofjified. Sharp's Surgery. 
OSS'IG, a town of Silefia, in the principality of Neilfe : 
three miles eaft-north-eaft of Grotkau. 
OSS'IG, a town of Saxony, in the bilhopric of Naum- 
burg : four miles fouth of Zeitz. 
OSSIPE'E, Ossapee, or Osapy, a poft-town, mountain, 
and lake,inStrafford-county,Neu’Hampftiire, North Ame¬ 
rica. The town was incorporated in 1785, and has 1205 
inhabitants: it is forty miles north of Concord. The lake 
lies north-eaft of Winnipifcogee-lake, between which and 
Offapee-lake is the Oftapee-mountain. Its waters run eaft, 
and are joined by South-river, from Great Offapee-river, 
whiclvdifcharges it felf into Saco-river, near the divifion-line 
between York and Cumberland counties in Maine,and be¬ 
tween Limericand Gorham, in lat. 43.46. N. Ion. 70.45. W. 
OSSIPEE GO'RE, a townlhip of the fame ftate and 
county; with 125 inhabitants. 
OSSIV'OROUS, adj. Devouring bones.—The bore of 
the gullet is not in all creatures alike anfwerable to the 
body or ftomach ; as in the fox, which feeds on bones, 
and fwallows whole, or with little chewing ; and next, in 
a dog, and other ojjivorous quadrupeds, it is very large.— 
Derham. 
OSSNO'BIAN, or AsseNeboyne, a river of North 
America, which runs into Winnipeg-lake in lat. 50. 3. N. 
Ion. 97. o. W. 
Ossnobian or Asseneeoyne Indians, a tribe of fa- 
vages found about the fource of the above river, far weft 
of Lake Superior. The Moravian- miffionaries report, 
that thefe men, inftead of cultivating the land, live wholly 
upon animal food, or at leaft reftrift themfelves to 
the fpontaneous productions of nature, denominating 
thofe who dig the ground “ Haves.” Bread is unknown 
to them ; and they rejeft it fr&m their mouths, calling it 
rotten wood. Thefe Indians, as well as thofe numerous 
nations who inhabit the country from Lake Superior to¬ 
wards the Shining Mountains, are great admirers of 
hunting-horfes, with which the country abounds. The 
Olfnobians have no permanent place of abode ; and live 
in tents made of buffalo and other hides, with which they 
travel from one place to another, like the Arabs; and, as 
loon as the food for their horfes is expended, they re¬ 
move, and pitch their tents in another fertile lpot: and 
thus they emigrate, without fcarcely ever returning to 
the fame fpots again. 
OSSO'LA, or Oscel'la, a diftricl of Italy, between 
the Valais and Lake Maggiora, about thirty-five miles in 
length, and from fifteen to twenty-five in breadth ; the 
country is compofed of mountains and valleys, but is 
fertile and populous. Domo d’ Ofcello is the capital. 
OSS'OLIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Sandomirz : twenty miles weft of Sandomirz. 
OSSOO'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal: fix- 
teen miles north of Biffunpour. 
OSS'ORY, the name of a bifhopric in Ireland, the ca¬ 
thedral of which is at Kilkenny. It includes almoft the 
whole county of Kilkenny, a good part of the Queen’s 
County, and fome of the King’s County, extending for¬ 
ty-fix Englilh milesin length and twenty-nine in breadth, 
and containing 136 parilhes. Such however are the 
unions of parilhes, that there are only fifty benefices, and 
of thefe twenty were without churches when Dr. Beau¬ 
fort publifhed. There is alfo a barony called Offory, 
which gave the title of earl to the eldeft fon of the dukes 
of Ormond. 
OSS'UARY, f. [ ojfuarium, Lat.] A charnel-houfe ; a 
place where the bones of dead people are kept. 
OSSUE'RO. See Osero. 
OSSUN', a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Pyrenees: fix miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tarbe, 
and twelve north of Argellez. 
OSSU'NA, an ancient and well-peopled town of Spain, 
in the province of Seville. It derives great advantage, in 
cafe of a liege, from a fountain in the middle of it, which 
furnilhes water to the inhabitants, whilft the whole coun¬ 
try, for eight miles round, is totally deftituteof thatne- 
ceffary article. When Cselar befieged Offima, he was 
obliged to bring his provifions, and particularly water, 
from a great diftance. It is forty-rive miles north-eaft 
of Seville. 
OST, or Oust, f. A kiln where hops or malt are 
dried. See Oast. 
OSTABAT', a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenees: fix miles fouth of St. Palais, and 
nine weft of Mauleon. 
OSTA'DE (Adrian Van), an eminent painter of the 
Dutch fchooi, was born at Lubeck in 1610. He ftudied 
his art at Haarlem under Francis Hals, and was fellow- 
pupil with Brouwer, with whom he contracted a great in¬ 
timacy. His tafte and ftyle were perfectly thofe of the 
country in which he praCtifed, being charaCterifed by a 
moftexaCt imitation of nature, with great beauty of •co¬ 
louring and exquifite finilh, but the loweft pollible choice 
of fubjects, which are uniformly taken from ale-houfes, 
kitchens, and places of vulgar refort, and often exhibit 
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