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Otbert purchafed from the celebrated Godfrey of Bouillon, 
when he went on his expedition to the Holy Land, the 
caftle of Bouillon, together with the lands belonging to 
it; and on that account, in all probability, he has been 
ilyled by fome Duke of Bouillon. Being ftrongly attached 
to the emperor Henry IV. he left an account of his life 
and death, which feemed fo hoftile to the church of Rome, 
that its hiftorian, Baronius, confidered it to be a piece in¬ 
terpolated by Reinerus Reinecius. The oldeft editions 
were printed without the name of the author, till it was 
added to it by Goldafti. The firft was publilhed by John 
Aventinus, who found it in the monaftery of St. Emeran, 
near Ratifbon. .It is entitled “ Henrici IV. Csefaris Au- 
gufti, ducis vero Boiorum VII. Vita. Ejufdem Epiftolae 
inventae a J. Aventino,” Auguftae, 1518, 4to. It is printed 
alfoin the Ortuini Gratii Fafciculus rerum expetendarum 
et fugiendarum ; Col. 1535. Lond. 1690. tom. i. Gen. Biog. 
OT'CHAIvOV. See Oczakow, vol. xvii. 
OT'CHI KO'TUN, a town of Afia : 150 miles north- 
eaft of Cafhgar. Lat. 40. 46. N. Ion. 84. 14. E. 
OTCHI'ER BA'Y, a bay on the north coaft of South 
America: ten miles weft of Cumana. 
OTEAVANOO'A HAR'BOUR, a bay on the fouth- 
weft coaft of the ifland of Bolabola. 
OTEWHE'I. SeePon. 
OT'FORD, a village in Kent, five miles north of Se- 
venoaks, where Oft a king of Mercia defeated and killed 
Aldred king of Kent. Offa, the treacherous murderer of 
Ethelbert, to atone for the blood he had fired in this bat¬ 
tle, gave Otford to Chrift Church, Canterbury, in paj’cua 
porcorum, (as the deed fays,) “ for pafture for the archbi- 
fhop’s hogs.” Such were the a£ls of piety fo much ef- 
teemed in that fuperftitious age, that Malmefbury, one of 
the beft of our old Englifh liiftorians, declares himfelf at 
a Iofs to determine whether the merits or crimes of this 
prince preponderated ! Otford continued in the fee of 
Canterbury till the time of Henry VIII. 
OTHAIN', a river of France, which runs into the 
Chiers near Montmedy. 
OTH'ER, pron. [Saxon.] Not the fame ; not this ; dif¬ 
ferent. In this fenfe it feems an adjeftive, yet, in the 
plural, when the fubftantive is fuppreifed, it has, contra- 
rily to the nature of adjeftives, a plural termination ; as, 
Of laft week, three days were fair, the others rainy.—of 
good actions fome are better than other fome. Hooker .— 
No leafes fl 1 all ever be made other than leafes for years not 
exceeding thirty-one, in pofieffion, and not in reverfion 
or remainder. Swift. 
Will it not be received 
That they have done’t ?— 
Who dares receive it other1 Shahejpeare’s K. Lear. 
Not I, or he, but fome one elfe : in this fenfe it is a fub¬ 
ftantive, and has a genitive and plural.—Phyficians are 
fome of them fo conformable to the humour of the patient, 
as they prefs not the cure of the difeafe ; and fome other 
are fo regular in proceeding according to art, as they re- 
fpeft not the condition of the patient. Bacon. —The con- 
fufion arifes, when the one wall put their fickle into the 
other's harvelt. Lejlie.— Never allow yourfelves to be idle, 
whilft others are in w'ant of any thing that your hands can 
make for them. Law. 
Were I king, 
I fhould cut off the nobles for their lands; 
Defire his jewels, and this other's houfe. Shahefpeare. 
The king had all he crav’d, or could compel; 
And all was done: let others judge how well. Daniel. 
Not the one, not this, but the contrary.'—There is that 
controlling worth in goodnefs, that the will cannot but 
like and defire it; and, on the other fide, that odious de¬ 
formity in vice, that it never offers itfelf to the affe&ions 
of mankind, but under the difguife of the other. South .— 
Correlative to each. —In lowlinefs of mind let each efteem 
other better than themfelves. Phil. ii. 3. 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1223. 
Scotland and thou did each in other live; 
Nor would’ft thou her, nor could file thee, furvive. Dryd. 
Something befides.—The learning of Latin being nothing 
but the learning of words, join as much other real know¬ 
ledge with it as you can. Loche on Education. —The next: 
This other gold-bound brow is like the firft j 
A third is like the former. Shahejpeare’s Macbeth. 
The third part: 
Bind my hair up. As it was yefterduy ? 
No, nor the t'other day, Ben Jonfon. 
It is fometimes put elliptically for other thing ; fomething 
different.—I can expeftno other from thofe that judge by 
fingle fights and ralli meafures, than to be thought fond or 
infolent. Glanville. —Ufed in Spenfer for left, in oppofi- 
tion to right.—A diftaffe in her other hand fhe had. Fairy 
Queen. 
Their feet unlhod, their bodies wrapt in rags. 
And both as fwift on foot as chafed flags; 
And yet the one her other legge had lame. Fairy Queen. 
In this laft example (any more than in the preceding one) 
the word other cannot poflibly be conftrued in its ufual 
way, as no leg at all is previoufly mentioned; but the 
fenfe left equally accords with both paffages, and makes 
each an explanation of each. MaJ'on. 
OTH'ER, a celebrated Norwegian, -who refided fome 
time at the court of Alfred the Great. He was a man of 
confiderable note in his own country, though his whole 
riches confifted of no more than twenty head of cattle, 
twenty flieep, and as many fwine ; and, being poffefled of 
an enterprifing fpirit, he undertook a voyage of difeovery 
to the country of the Permians, or towards the White 
Sea ; and another towards Sweden, or the ftiores of the 
Baltic. Alfred, who in his younger days had been at 
Rome, where in all probability he colle&ed the materials 
for his Geography, having caufed the Ormefta of Orofius 
to be tranflated into the Anglo-Saxon, introduced into it 
the relations of Other, and of Wujfftan, a Dane, who per¬ 
haps became acquainted with Other in the courfe of his 
voyages, or refided with him in England. Dr. J. R. Forf- 
ter fays, that Alfred’s account of the two voyages of Other 
and of that of Wulfftan, which is both exadft and authen¬ 
tic, is exceedingly valuable, as it contains the beft infor¬ 
mation in regard to the geography of the northern re¬ 
gions in the ninth century. Forjler's Hijl. of the Difco~ 
veries and Voyages in the North. 
OTH'ER A,/, [derivation unknown.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of berberides. Luff. Generic characters—Calyx : 
perianthium one-leafed, permanent, four-parted, with 
ovate fegments. Corolla: petals four, ovate, blunt. 
Stamina: filaments four, inferted at the very bottom of 
the petals, lliorter by half than the corolla; anthene twin, 
four-grooved. Piftillum: germen fuperior, fmooth; ftyle 
none: ftigma feffile. Pericarpium: unknown, probably 
a capfule.— Effential Character. Calyx four-parted; petals 
four, ovate, flat; ftigma feffile; capfule? There is but 
one fpecies, 
Othera Japonica. Stem flirubby. Branches round, 
ftriated, purple. Leaves alternate, ovate, blunt, fmooth, 
an inch and a half long. Flowers axillary, aggregate, 
white. Native of Japan; where it is named muhade ho, 
that is, millepedes. 
OTH'ERGATES, adv. [from other, and gate, way.] 
In another manner.—If Sir Toby had not been in drink, 
he would have tickled you othergates than he did. Shahe- 
fpeare’s Tw. Night. 
OTH'ERGUISE, udj. [ other and guife. This is often 
pronounced, and fometimes written, otherguefs.'] Of an¬ 
other kind. It is a common expreflion in feveral parts of 
England; and in Chelhire forms part of the following 
proverb : “ I have otherguefs fifti to fry than fnigs [eels] 
without butter:” i. e. My time is better employed; I 
have fomething better to do than what you propofe. 
O OTH'ER WHERE, 
