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OZIGI'NA, an oftrog of Rulfia, on the Indigirda: 144 
miles nortb-north-eaft of Zalhiverfk. Lat. 69. 30. N. Ion, 
141. 22, E. 
OZI'NO, a town of Japan, in the iiland of Niphon : 
twenty-five miles north of Meaco. 
OZINOV'SKQI, a town of Rulfia, in the government 
of Perm, on the Kama: fixteen miles north-north-eaft 
of Ola. 
O'ZLEWORTH, a village in Glouceflerlhire, three 
miles fouth-eaft from Durfley, and eighteen fouth from 
Gloucefter, is very remarkable for the number of foxes 
killed in one year in the reign of queen Elizabeth, which 
amounted to two hundred and thirty-one. England's Gaz. 
OZ'MA, a town of Bulgaria, on a river of the fame 
name: twenty-one miles fouth of Nicopoli, 
OZ'NI , f. [Heb.] A man’s name. 
OZ'NITE, f. A defcendant of Ozni. 
OZOHOW'K, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: four¬ 
teen miles louth-fouth-eaft of Kreminiek. 
OZ'OLZE, orOzon, a people who inhabited the ealt- 
ern parts of ADtolia, anciently called Ozolca. This traft 
of territory lay at the north of the bay of Corinth, and 
extended about twelve miles northward. They received 
their name from the bad Itench (o£>j) of their bodies, or 
of their clothing, which was the raw' hides of wild beads ; 
though lome derive it from the Itench of the flagnated 
water in the neighbouringlakes and marlhes, The name 
of Ozolte, on account of its indelicate fignification, highly 
difpleafed the inhabitants, and they exchanged it loon 
for that of ZEtolians. Herodotus. 
OZOLA'VA, one of the larger Navigator's Illands, in 
the South Pacific Ocean. The inhabitants greatly refem- 
ble tbofe of Maouna, Lat. 14. S. Ion. 171. 25. W. 
OZOPHYL'LUM, f. [named by Schreber, from the 
Gr. p£b, to dink, and <pv\Xov, a leaf; in allufion to the 
nnpleafant fcent of its foliage when bruifed.] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs monadelphia, order pentandria, na¬ 
tural order of trihilatae, (meliae, Jujf.) Generic cha¬ 
racters— Calyx : perjanthium one-leafed, five-toothed. 
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acute, very imall. Corolla : petals five, with long claws 
converging in form of a tube; borders oblong, blunt, 
fpreading. Stamina: filaments cylindrical, Iheathing the 
ftyle, five-toothed at top ; antherae five, oblong, ereCt. 
Pidillum: germ five-lobed, furrounded by a gland ; dyle 
filiform, higher than the corolla ; digma capitate. Peri- 
carpium : five-celled. — Ejj'ential C/iarafier. One-dyled ; 
calyx five-toothed; petals live, long; filaments fheathing 
the dyle, five-toothed at top ; teeth antheriferous ; dig¬ 
ma one ; capfule five-celled. 
Ozophyllum fcetidum, a folitary fpecies. It is a 
fhrub of ten feet high or more, and often four or fix 
inches in diameter. The bark is green, and fmooth ; the 
wood white, tender, and fragile. The branches garnifhed 
with alternate leaves; each leaf is digitated, having three 
large lobes, and growing on a footdalk or five or fix 
inches long; the lobes of the leaves are green, fmooth, 
foft, and oval, and terminate in a long point ; the mid¬ 
dle lobe is larger than the red, being fometimes more 
than a foot long, and four inches wide; each lobe is di¬ 
vided by a longitudinal nerve, w'hich is prominent be¬ 
neath. The dowers fpring from the bofoms of the leaves, 
at the extremity of the twigs and branches ; their com¬ 
mon footdalk is more than a foot long, and divides at its 
futnmit into feveral fmaller ones, on each of which are 
placed alternate, fefnle, dowers : calyx green ; corolla 
white, each petal being about an inch long, and as it 
were glued or united to each other longitudinally by their 
borders, fo as to form a kind of tubular figure, with the 
upper part fpreading: thele petals cover a white mem¬ 
branaceous tube, which on its upper part divides into 
five fhort filaments fupporting at their points the anthers. 
This Ihrub is a native of the foreds of Guiana ; dowering 
in February. The leaves, when bruifed, emit a dif- 
agreeable fniell, much refembling that of Stramonium. 
OZUNIC'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna: thirty miles fouth-fouth-ead of Breflaw, 
OZ'ZEK. See Oschatz. 
P IS the fifteenth letter and eleventh confonant of the 
Englifh alphabet. It is a labial confonant, formed 
by a flight compreffion of the anterior part of the lips ; as 
pull, pelt, Sec. 
P and B are fo like each other, that Quintilian de¬ 
clares, that, in the word obtinnit, his reafon required him 
to put a b, but that his ears could hear nothing but a p, 
optinuit: hence in ancient infcriptions, and old gloflaries, 
it appears that thefe two letters have often been con¬ 
founded. Several nations dill pronounce one for the 
other, the Welch and Germans particularly, who fay, 
ptmutn vinum, for bonum vinum. Plutarch obferves, it 
was ufual for thofe of Delphi to fay (3ahiv for irccleiv, (?i x- 
%o>i for wixgov ; and, among the Latins, as often as an/fol¬ 
lowed, the b was changed into a p, as J'rribo, fcripji. 
When p dands before t or f, its found is lolt; as in the 
words pjalms, pfycology, ptolemaic, ptifan, accompt, &c. 
When placed before h, they both together have the found 
of/'; as in phi/qfophy, pliyjic. See. and this is generally the 
cafe in words derived from the Greek. In the tranfition 
of words from one tongue to another, P, Ph, F, B, and 
V, often glide one into the other, on account of their 
great labial affinity : hence Scaliger fays, happy are they 
to whom vivere and bibere are the fame thing. See alfo 
the beginning of the letter B, vol. ii. p. 590. 
St. Jerome obferves on Daniel, that the Hebrews had 
no p; but that the ph ferved them indead thereof; add¬ 
ing, that there is but one word in the whole Bible read 
with a p, viz. apadno. 
YOh. XVIII. No. 1233. 
P was ufed among the ancients as a numeral letter, fig- 
nifying the fame with the G, viz. 100 ; according to the 
verfe of Ugutio, “ P fimilem cum G numeruin monflra- 
tur habere.” Though Baronius thinks it rather flood 
for 7. When a dalh was added at top of P, it flood for 
400,000. The Greek tt flood for 80. 
This letter is very often ufed by the Latins as an ab¬ 
breviation : thus, P dands for Publius, pondo, &c. 
P. C. for Patres Confcripti ; P. R. for Populus Romanus; 
PR.S. for Praetoris Sententia, See. 
Among phyficians, P dands for pugil, or the eighth 
part of an handful ; P. JE. partes aquales, or equal parts 
of the ingredients ; otherwise denoted by a or ana. P. P. 
fignifies Pulvis Patrum, that is, Jefuit’s Powder, or the 
Cortex Peruvianus in powder; which is fo called, be- 
caufe firfl brought into Europe by thofe fathers ; and pp. t 
preeparatus, prepared. 
P, in mufic, is the initial of piano, (Ital.) foft, for 
which it dands ; and pp, for pianijjimo, very foft. P, on 
French coins, denotes thofe flruck at Dijon. 
P is the Greek form of the letter R. Condantine firfl 
difplayed this Greek monogram and fubfequently 
on a Ihield in the imperial arms, expreflive of the 
figure of the cfofs, and exhibiting at the fame time the 
two firfl letters of the word XPI 2 T 0 E, Christ. This 
device he had imprelfed on his helmet, in which St. He¬ 
lena had caufed fome of the true nails of the crofs to be 
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