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OS'TRINGER, or Ostrenger, /. An old word fora 
falconer. 
OS'TRITZ, or Wot'row, a town of Upper Lufatia, 
on the Neifle : feven miles fouth of Gorlitz, and twenty 
fouth of Budiflen. Lat. 51. 1. N. Ion. 15. 1. E. 
OS'TROCOL, a town of Pruflla, in Natangen : nine 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Lick. 
OS'TROE, one of the Feroe-iflands, in the North Sea. 
OS'TROG, a town of Poland, in Volhynia, once the 
capital of a duchy, ceded to Poland in the year 1609. It 
is thirty-eight miles north-north-weft of Conftantinov. 
OSTROGO'THIA. See Gothland. 
OS'TROGOTHS, or Eastern Goths, in ancienthif- 
tory, a denomination given to thofe Goths who, be¬ 
fore they left Scandinavia, inhabited the more eaftern 
parts near the Baltic, in contradiftinftion to the Weftro- 
goths, or Weftern Goths, who inhabited that part of 
Scandinavia which borders on Denmark. The name was 
afterwards appropriated to thofe Goths who eftablifhed 
themfelves on the other fide of the Danube, and thus 
they were diftinguiftied from thofe who proceeded farther 
weftward, and into Pannonia. Their hiftory is included 
under the general article Goths, vol. viii. 
OSTROGZEK', a town of Poland, in Volhynia : eigh¬ 
teen miles fouth-weft of Berdiczow. 
OSTROGOZ'SK, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
ofVoronez: forty miles fouth of Voronez. Lat. 51. N. 
Ion. 38. 4. E. 
OSTROKOL'LA, a town of Pruflla : eighty miles 
fouth-eaft of Konigfberg. 
OSTROLEN'KA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : 
forty-eight miles north-eaft of Warfaw. 
OSTROMET'KE, a t-own of Pnitfia, in the palatinate 
of Culm : ten miles fouth of Culm. 
OSTROPO'LE, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: ten 
miles north-eaft of Conftantinov. 
OSTROSI'NA, a town of Croatia : twelve miles fouth- 
eaft of Carlftadt. 
OS'TROV, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Pfkov, on the river Velika. Lat. 57. 20. N. Ion. 28. 14. E. 
OSTROUCHOVSKA'IA, a town of Ruflia, in the 
country of the Coflacks, on the Choper: forty-four miles 
weli-fouth-weft of Arkadinfkaia. 
OS'TROVITZ, a town of Croatia: twelve miles fouth 
of Bihacs. 
OSTROVIZ'ZA, a town and fortrefs of Dalmatia; fup- 
pofed by fome to be the Aravzona, and by others the 
Stlvpi, of the ancients, though probably it has no con¬ 
nection with either the one or the other. It was purchafed 
in 1410 by the republic of Venice for five thoufand du¬ 
cats, and fome pieces of land befides. Its fortrefs, which 
was feated on a rock, perpendicularly cut all round, and 
defervedly reckoned impregnable before the ufe of artil¬ 
lery, was taken by Soliman in 1524, but foon after re- 
ftored to the dominion of Venice. At prefent no traces 
of its fortifications remain. It is fourteen miles north of 
SGardona. 
OSTROV'NOE, a lake of Ruflia, in the government of 
Kolivan : 120 miles fouth of Kolivan. Lat. 52. 24. N. 
Ion. 80. 24. F.. 
OSTROV'SKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Koftrom : forty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft ofVetluga. 
OS'TROW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: fixty 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Warfaw. 
OS'TROW, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : twenty- 
two miles fouth of Lucko. 
OS'TROW, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek : forty-four miles fouth of Novogrodek. 
OSTROVIEC', a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Wilna : three miles eaft of Wilna. 
OSTROZECK', a town of Poland, in Volhynia: for¬ 
ty-two miles weft-north-weft of Zytomiers. 
OSTRU'THIUM, f. in botany. See Imperatoria. 
OSTRY'A. See Carpinus. 
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OSTRYN'IA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinat 
of Wilna: twenty miles weft-fouth-weft of Lidda. 
OSTUAL'LA, a town of Norway: fifty miles north of 
Frederickftadt. 
OSTU'NI, a town of Naples, in the province of Otran¬ 
to, the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of Brindifi. It contains 
two churches and five monalteries. It is fifty-one miles 
north-weft of Otranto, and 164 eaft of Naples. Lat. 
40. 59. N. Ion. 17. 38. E. 
OSU'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville : 
twelve miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ecija. 
OSUNPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal : forty- 
five miles north-north-eaft of Dacca. Lat. 24. 25. N. 
Ion. 90. 48. E. 
OS'WALD, a fmall ifland in the Gulf of Florida, near 
the coaft of Eaft Florida. Lat. 25. 48. N. Ion. 80. 22. W. 
OS'WALD (St.), a town of Auftria ; five miles north 
of Rofbach.—Alfo, a town of the duchy of Stiria; eleven 
miles north-eaft of Windifch Gratz.—A town of the 
duchy of Stiria ; fix miles fouth of Landfperg.—A town 
of Auftria j eight miles fouth-weft of Newftatt.—A town 
of Auftria ; five miles eaft of Freyftatt.—A town of Up¬ 
per Carniola ; eleven miles eaft of Stein. 
OS'WALD (Erafmus), a learned German profeflor of 
the mathematics and of the Hebrew language, was born 
in the county of Merckenftein in Auftria, in the year 1511. 
After having gone through a courfe of grammar-learning, 
he ftudied fucceflively at the univerfities of Ingoldftadt, 
Leipfic, and Bafil; and, in the place laft mentioned, dif- 
tinguifhed himfelf by his proficiency in the mathematical 
fciences and the Hebrew tongue, under the inftruftions 
of the famous Sebaftian Munfter. From Balil he went to 
Memmingen in Swabia, on an invitation from the magif- 
trates to become mathematical profeflor in that city ; and 
afterwards he removed to Tubingen, where he filled the 
chair of Hebrew profeffor with great fuccefs and applaufe. 
In imitation of his tutor, Sebaftian Munfter, he did not 
confine his inftrudtions to the Hebrew language only, but 
alfo delivered ledtures in the mathematics, from which he 
derived no little reputation. In the year 1552, he ac¬ 
cepted of the united chairs of mathematical and Hebrew 
profeflor at Friburg in the Brifgaw, which he held for 
more than feven-and-twenty years, with great advantage 
to the interefts of fcience and oriental literature in Ger¬ 
many. He died in 1579, in the fixty-ninth year of his age. 
He was the author of, 1. Commentaria in Theoricas Pla- 
netarum. 2. De Primo Mobili. 3. Commentaria in 
Sphasram Joannis-de Sacrobofco. 4. In Almageftum Pto- 
lomtei Annotationes. 5. Gentium Kalendarium. 6. Ora- 
tio funebris de Obitu Sebaftiani Munfterii, written in the 
Hebrew language. 7. Paraphrafis in Cantica Canticorum, 
et Ecclefiaftem Salomonis, ex Chaldaica Lingua in Lati- 
11am converfa. 8. He tranflated into Latin, Rabbi Abra¬ 
ham Cai’s book on the Sphere, and Rabbi Elias’s treatife 
on Arithmetic, publifhing the original Hebrew with his 
verfion. He likewife tranflated the New Teftament into 
Hebrew ; an undertaking on which no perfon had ven¬ 
tured before his time. Teijfier' , s E/oges des Homines Savans. 
OS'WALD (John), a native of Scotland, the date of 
whofe birth and death we have not been able to afeertain. 
He was a lieutenant in the 42d regiment of foot, and 
ferved in the war before laft in the Eaft Indies. In the 
year 1783 he left India, and returned by land to England. 
His predominant paflion for travel, and avidity to lurvey 
mankind under various points of view, determined him to 
trace out for himfelf a new route. He diredled his courfe 
to the more northern and mountainous parts of Turkey, 
and pitched his tent for fome time among the barbarous 
hordes of Turkomans and Curds, whom for many years 
no traveller had vifited except himfelf and the celebrated 
walking Stewart. By the molt intenfe application, he had 
acquired, without a mafter, a competent knowledge of 
the Latin tongue. To this he foon added, in the fame 
manner, the Greek; and, in the courfe of his peregrina- 
1 tions. 
