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Sometimes it is added to note oppofition or contradiftinc- 
tion; domeftic, not foreign: mine, his, or your’s; not 
another’s.—There’s nothing fillier than a crafty knave 
out-witted, and beaten at his own play. L'Eftrange. 
Thefe toils abroad, thefe tumults with his own, 
Fell in the revolution of one year. Daniel. 
King's or Queen's own, a term which has been attached 
tofome particular regiments ever fince the Revolution in 
1688. Thus theFourth, which landed with William III. 
is always called the Fourth, or King’s Own, and the Se¬ 
cond Regiment of Foot, the Queen’s Own. We have 
had inftances, during the late war, of militia battalions 
♦laving adopted the term of King’s Own. This occurred 
when his late majefty vifited Portfmouth after the battle 
of the ill of June, 1794. The marquis of Buckingham 
(who was colonel of the militia of that name, and which 
was doing duty there) folicited permiflion for his corps 
to become royal, and to bear the appellation of King’s 
Own. The facings, which before were yellow, were con- 
fequently changed to garter-blue. By which circum- 
ffance, the county of Buckingham fends out a very fine 
corps of men, who, being called the King’s Own, and 
thereby approaching the regulars without aftually being 
fo, feem to have left their ancient comrades of the militia, 
without obtaining any footing in the line. The Stafford- 
(hire militia regiment (which had often done duty at 
Windfor, and was humoroufly called his majefty’s yel¬ 
low guards) alfo changed its facings to royal blue, with 
the fame mark of diftinftion. The emblem of thefe corps 
(fays Mr. James) ought to be Mahomet’s coffin, and the 
motto Medio tutiQhnus. The marines have alfo had their 
facings changed from white to blue, but they are not 
called the King’s Own. James's Mil. Did. 
'Fo O'WN, v. a. To acknowledge; to avow for one’s 
own : 
When you come, find me out, 
And own me for your fon. Dryden's Cleom. 
To poffefs; to claim: to hold by right.—Tell me, ye Tro¬ 
jans, for that name you own. Dryden. 
Others on earth o’er human race prefide ; 
Of thefe the chief the care of nations own, 
And guard with arms divine the Britifh throne. Pope. 
To avow.—Nor hath it been thus only amongft the moft 
civilized nations; but the barbarous Indians likewife have 
owned that tradition. Wilkins. 
I’ll venture out alone. 
Since you, fair princefs, my protection own. Dryden. 
To confefs; not to deny.—Make this truth fo evident, 
that thofe who are unwilling to own it may yet be afhamed 
to deny it. Tillot/on. —It muff be owned , that, generally 
fpeaking, parents are never more fond of their daughters 
than when they fee them too fond of themfelves. Law. 
O'WNER, /'. Qne to whom any thing belongs; mailer ; 
rightful poftefl'or.—A freehold, though but in ice and 
fnow, will make the owner pleafed in the poffeflion, and 
flout in the defence of it. Addifon's Freeholder. —Victory 
hath not made us infolent, nor have we taken advantage 
to gain any thing beyond the honour of refloring every 
one’s right to their juft owners. Atterhury. 
What is this wit, which mud our cares employ ? 
The oumer's wife, that other men enjoy. Pope. 
OWNERSHIP, f. Property; rightful poffeflion.—In a 
real aCtion, the proximate caufe is the property or oivner- 
Jhip of the thing in controverfy. Ay life's Parergon. 
OW'RAM (North), a townfhip of Yorkfhire, in the 
Weft Riding, with 4887 inhabitants, including 1333 em¬ 
ployed in trade and manufactures: three miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Bradford. 
OW'RAM (South), a townfhip of Yorkfhire, in the 
Weft Riding, with 3148 inhabitants, including 1404 em- 
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ployed in trade and manufactures: two miles fouth-eaft 
of Halifax. 
OW'RE, a village of Dorfetfhire, in the Ifle of Pur- 
beck, four miles north-eaft of Corfe. This was formerly 
the chief, if not the only, quay for exporting ftone, now 
enjoyed by Swanwich. Near it are feveral ftone-quarries. 
Twoiflands in the bay of Pool belong to this hamlet; viz. 
Furfey, and St. Helen’s, or Green-Ifland; the latter of 
which was formerly joined to it by a bridge, whofe ruins 
are vifible. It confifts of about twenty acres; and on it 
formerly was a chapel. 
OW'RE, a village in Hampfhire, near Calfhot-caftle, 
I. W.—A village in Shropfhire, north-eaft of Atherley. 
OW'RESBY, a village in Lincolnfhire, between Nor- 
manby and the river Ankatn. 
OWRUC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Kiev: 96 miles north-weft of Kiev, and 310 weft of 
Warfaw. 
OW'RUM (North and South), villages in the parifh of 
Halifax, Yorkfhire. 
OW'SCRAW, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twenty 
miles weft of Rotas. 
OWSH, a town of Turkeftan, on a river which runs 
into the Sihon : thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Andegan. 
OW'THORN, a village near Hull in Yorkfhire. The 
tower of the church, better known by the name of the 
Sifter Churches, an ancient landmark on the coaft of Hol- 
dernefs, being undermined by the fea, fell with a tremen¬ 
dous crafh, on the night of Feb. 16, 1816; at which time 
the river Humber had rifen to an height unequalled fince 
Jan. 25, 1788. The body of the church had been taken 
down and rebuilt at Rimfwell in 1801. 
OX,/, plur. oxen, [oxa. Sax. oxe, Dan.] The general 
name for black cattle. See the article Bos.—I faw the 
river Clitumnus, celebrated by the poets for making cat¬ 
tle white that drink of it. The inhabitants of that coun¬ 
try have ftill the fame opinion, and have a great many 
oxen of a whitifh colour to confirm them in it. Addifon. 
Sheep rim not half fo tim’rous from the wolf. 
Or horfe or oxen from the leopard, 
As you fly from your oft-fubdued flaves. Shake/peure. 
A caftrated bull.—'Although there be naturally more 
males than females, yet artificially, that is, by making 
geldings, oxen, and wethers, there are fewer. Graunt. 
The field is fpacious I defign to fow 
With oxen far unfit to draw the plough. Dryden. 
OX'-BANE, / A plant. Ain/wortli. 
OX'-BOW , f. The yoke in which oxen are confined to 
labour. 
OX-CHEE'K, / One half of an ox’s head. 
OX'-EYE, / in fea-language, a name given by fea- 
men to thofe dreadful florins that are fometimes met with 
on the coaft of Guinea ; for at firft it appears in the form 
of an ox’s eye, and not much bigger; but it defcends with 
fuch celerity, that in a very little fpace of time, and often 
before they can prepare themfelves for it, it feems to them 
to overfpread the whole hemifphere; and, at the fame time, 
forces the air with fo much violence, that the fliips are 
fometimes fcattered feveral ways, and fometimes are funk 
downright. 
OX'-EYE,/. A plant. See Buphthalmum. 
Bring corn-flax, tulips, and Adonis’ flower, 
Fair ox-eye, goldy-locks, and columbine. B. JonJ'on. 
Ox-eye of old Authors. See Anthemis. 
OX-EYE DAI'SY. See Chrysanthemum. 
OX'-EYED, adj. Having large or full eyes, like thofe 
of an ox.—Homer ufeth that epithet of ox-eyed, in de¬ 
ferring Juno, becaufe a round black eye is the bell. 
Burton's Anat. of Mel. 
OX'-FEET, f. A term applied to the feet of horfes, 
when the horn of the hind-feet cleaves juft in the middle 
of the fore-part of the hoof, from the coronet to the Ihoe }. 
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