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latter they fhow the tomb of a great faint, whom they call 
Ibrahim. As Ephraim Syrus was a deacon of EdelTa, it 
may be concluded that it is the tomb of that father of the 
church. This town was firft taken by the Saracens in 
the year 1087. The Chriftians retook it in the year 1097 ; 
and in the year 1142 it was feized by the Turks, in whofe 
power it has continued ever fince. It contains about 
20,000 inhabitants, and is eighty miles north-eaft of 
Aleppo. Lat. 36. 50. N. Ion. 38. 25. E. 
OURGOO'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda: 
thirty miles north-north-weft of Rachore. 
OURIGU'I, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad : 
fifteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kondur. 
OURI'QUE, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo, con¬ 
taining about 2000 inhabitants. In the year of Rome 606, 
the Romans were defeated near this town by Viriatus, 
and their general Claudius Unanimus killed. Near this 
town, Don Alphonfo Henriques obtained a fignal viftory 
over the Moors, in the year 1149. It is twenty-four miles 
louth-fouth-weft of Beja, and feventy-five fouth-fouth-eaft 
Of I.ifoon. Lat. 37. 39. N. Ion. 8. 9. W. 
OURIS'IA,j! [from epog, a mountain, in allufion to 
the natural ftation of the plant.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs didynamia, order angiofpermia, natural order 
perfonatse, Linn, (pediculares, Jvjf. fcrophularinae. Brown.) 
Generic charafters—Calyx: perianthium inferior, in five 
deep, forpewhat unequal, fegments ; permanent. Corolla: 
of one petal ; tube funnel-fhaped, afcending, longer than 
the calyx ; limb in five obtufe nearly-equal lobes. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments four, inferted into the bottom of the 
tube, curved clofely along its upper fide, two of them 
rather the longeft; antheras incumbent, within the tube; 
fome defcribe the rudiment of a fifth ftarnen. Piftillum : 
gertnen fuperior, tw'o-lobed ; ftyle the length and pofition 
of the ftamens; ftigrna of two obtufe lobes. Pericarpium: 
capfule two-lobed, of two cells, and two valves, the par¬ 
titions from the centre of the valves. Seeds: numerous, 
with a lax tunic-like {kin.— Ejfential Character. Calyx 
deeply five-cleft, rather unequal; corolla funnel-fliaped ; 
limb five-cleft, nearly-equal, obtufe; ftigrna two-lobed; 
capfule of two cells, and two valves; the partitions from 
the centre of each valve; feeds with a lax tunic-like {kin. 
There are tw'o fpecies. 
1. Ourifia ruelloides: leaves roundifh-ovate, unequally 
crenate; flower-ftalks axillary, oppofite. Native of Terra 
del Fuego, in the clefts of rocks. Root perennial, creep¬ 
ing, with woolly fibres. Stems procumbent, fliort, fmooth. 
Leaves on long ere£t ftalks, roundifli-ovate, about two 
inches long, nearly fmootli, with one central rib,and two 
pair of lateral ones, their margin unequally and rather 
bluntly crenate; the under fide paleft. Flowering branches 
decumbent, hardly a fpan long, fmootli, bearing two or 
three pair of rounded notched leafy braftes ; flowers pur¬ 
ple, on long, fmooth, axillary, folitary, oppofite, naked, 
Ample, ftalks, from the two uppermoft pair of braftes. 
See Chelone, vol. iv. 
a. Ourifia integrifolia: leaves nearly ovate, entire; 
flower-ftalk terminal, moftly folitary. Gathered by Mr. 
Brown in Van Diemen’s Land. A fmooth creeping plant, 
with a calyx more equally and deeply divided than the firft 
fpecies, as well as a ihorter corolla, and a different afpedt; 
fo that its difcoverer was partly inclined to think it gene- 
rically diftindt. 
OU'RO, a river of Africa, which runs into the Atlantic 
in lat. 23. 30. N. 
OU'RO, a river of Africa, which runs into the Indian 
Sea in lat. 24. 25. S. 
OURO'E, a fmall ifland of Denmark, near the coaft of 
Zealand, in the Ifefiord Gulf: four miles north-eaft of 
Holbeck. Lat. 55. 46. N. Ion. 11.50. E. 
OUROL'OGY, or Uros'copy,/ [from apo?, Gr. urine.] 
The doftrine of difeafes, as judged of by the appearances 
of the urine. 
The changes in the fenfible qualities of the urine, under 
different circumftances of difeafe, are confiderable3 and 
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the ancients deduced many pathological inferences from 
thefe changes, and wrote ample treatifes in explanation of 
their doftrines. Much of their fuppofed knowledge on 
the fubjedt was, however, purely hypothetical, and alto¬ 
gether unworthy of ferious attention. Although, doubt- 
lefs, fome indications are to be obtained from the appear¬ 
ances of the urine, both in acute and chronic complaints, 
yet thefe are much more limited than was formerly be¬ 
lieved ; and thofe who pretend to afcertain the nature of 
difeafes, by only infpedting the urine of the patient, are, 
therefore, impoftors of the lowed: clafs; and it is truly 
difcreditable to the general information of the age, that 
water-dodlors ftill live upon the credulity of a Britifti 
people. 
The medical indications, as well as the chemical pro¬ 
perties, of this excretion, will be treated of under the 
proper head. In the mean time we may obferve, that 
Dr. Blackall, a phyfician of Exeter, has recently given 
an importance to urofcopy which it never before pof- 
feffed, by fliowing that, in many cafes of dropfy, and other 
chronic difeafes, the urine contains much of the coagula- 
ble part of the blood ; and thence deducing fome impor¬ 
tant practical indications. 
OUROUGER'D, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irac : 104 miles foutii-eaft of Hamadan. 
OUROU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Nyevre: feven miles north of Chateau Chinon. 
OURRED', a high hill of the county of Galway, Ire¬ 
land, in the weftern diftridl, at the bottom of which is a 
lake of the fame name. 
OUR'RY’s I'SLAND, or New Al'derney, an ifland 
in the South Pacific Ocean, difcovered by captain Carteret 
in the year 1767. This is one of thofe called Queen Char¬ 
lotte's IJlands; about ten miles long, and five broad. Lat. 
11. 10. S. Ion. 165. 19. E. 
OUR'SE, a river of France, which runs into the Seine 
at Bar fur Seine. 
OURSEL'VES, reciprocal pronoun ; [plural of myfelf.J 
We; not others; it is added to xee, by way of emphafis 
or oppofition.— We ourfelves might dillindily number in 
words a great deal farther than we ufually do, would we 
but find out fome fit denominations to fignify them by. 
Locke. —Us; not others; in the oblique cafes.-—Our con- 
feflion is not intended to inftrudt God, who knows our 
fins much better than ourfelves do, but it is to humble 
ourjelves; and therefore we muft not think to have con- 
feffed aright till that be done. Whole Duty of Man. 
Sale in ourfelves, while on ourjelves we ftand, 
The fea is ours, and that defends the land. Drydcn. 
Ourself is ufed ia the regal ftyle.—Not fo much as a 
treaty can be obtained, unlefs we would denude ourfelf of 
all force to defend us. Clarendon. 
To make fociety 
The fweeter welcome, we will keep ourfelf 
Till fupper-time alone. Shahejpeare's Macbeth. 
We ourfelf will follow 
In the main battle. Shahejpeare. 
OU'RTE, or Ourthe, a river of the Netherlands, 
which rifes from two fprings ; one near St. Hubert, the 
other near the village of Ourte; both which unite near 
La Roche; the united ftream pafl'es by Durbuy, Sec. and 
runs into the Meufe at Liege. 
OU'RTE, or Ourthe, late one of the departments of 
France, formed of the greateft part of the country of 
Liege and of part of Limburg and Luxemburg; taking 
its name from the above river. Its capital, Liege, is now 
the capital of the (Southern) Province of Liege, in the 
kingdom of the Netherlands, to which the whole of this 
department was made over by the treaty of Vienna, June 
1815. 
OU'RTHE, a town of the kingdom of the Netherlands : 
four miles north of Luxemburg. 
OUR'TON-POD'LAC, a town of Thibet: fifteen miles 
fouth-weft of Yolotou-Hotun. 
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