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UPWELL, a parish of England, in the county of Nor¬ 
folk; 5 miles from Downham. Population 1429. 
To UPWHl'RL, v. a. To raise upwards with quick 
rotation. 
All these, upwhirl'd aloft. 
Fly o’er the backside of the world far Off 
Into a Limbo large and broad. Milton. 
To UPWIND, v. a. pret. and pass, up-wound. To 
convolve. 
As she lay upon the dirty ground. 
Her huge long tail her den all overspread ! 
Yet was in knots and many boughts up-wound. Spenser. 
UPWOOD, a parish of England, county of Huntingdon; 
2| miles south-west-by-west of Ramsay. 
UPWOOD, Point, a cape on the south-east coast of the 
island of Favida, in the gulf of Georgia. Lat. 49. 28. N. 
long. 236. 24. E. 
UQUAIGUARA, a river of Brazil, in the province of 
Seara, which enters the sea, between the Upanema and the 
point of Val. 
UQUETA, a lake of the province and government of 
Cumana, formed by the waste waters of the Orinoco, in the 
part where the arms of this river are divided into various 
channels, to enter the sea. 
VRACENE, a town of the Netherlands, in East Flanders, 
district of Dendermonde; 9 miles west of Antwerp. Popu¬ 
lation 5000. 
VRAIN, St., a town of France, department of the 
Nievre. 
VRANA, or Ujvarina, a small town of European Tur¬ 
key, in Romania; 78 miles west-south west of Sophia. 
VRANTSCHIA, a district of European Turkey, in Mol¬ 
davia, containing 12 villages. 
VREDEN, a town of Prussian Westphalia, on the small 
river Brehkels, and the confines of Zutphen ; 30 miles west- 
south-west of Munster. 
VRIEZEN VEEN, a town of the Netherlands, in the 
rovince of Overyssel, with 1800 inhabitants; 22 miles east- 
y-south of Zwolle. 
VRINES LOCH, a small lake of Scotland, in Ross-shire, 
about three miles long and one broad, which discharges its 
waters by a rivulet of the same name, into the head of Loch 
Broom. 
UR ABA, a small island of the Pacific Ocean, in the bay 
of Panama. 
URAC, the most northerly of the Ladrone islands, in the 
Eastern seas, about nine miles in circumference. Lat. 20. 
45. N. 
URACAPU, a river of Guiana, which enters the Orinoco 
by the east side. . 
URACH, a sfnall town of the west’of Germany, in Wir- 
temberg, situated in a long, narrow valley, on the Erms. It 
contains 2700 inhabitants. In the neighbourhood is the 
castle of Hohenurach, now in ruins; 21 miles south-south¬ 
east of Stutgard. 
URAMARCA, a settlement of Peru, in the province of 
Andahuadas. 
URANA, a settlement of South America, in Guiana, on 
the shore of the Orinoco. 
URANA, a river of South America, which runs into the 
Caribbean sea; 9 miles west of Cumana bay. It only 
admits small boats and canoes. 
URBANE, ad). [ urbanus , Lat.] Civil; courteous; 
elegant. Cockeram— Dr. Warton thinks this epistle supe¬ 
rior to any of Voiture’s. The latter part of it is certainly 
urbane, elegant, and unaffected. Bowles. 
URANIA [the name of one of the Muses], in Botany, a 
genus of the class hexandria, order monogynia, natural order 
of musae, (Juss.)-~- Generic Character. Calyx; spathes 
common alternate, ovate-lanceolate, concave, many-flow¬ 
ered. Partial two-valved, lanceolate-linear, long, channelled, 
coloured, acuminate, erect, permanent. Perianth none. 
Corolla: petals three, oblong, channelled, erect, acute, equal. 
Nectary two leaved, one of them bifid, Stamina: filaments 
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six, filiform. Anthers linear, long, erect, inclined at the 
tip. Pistil: germ inferior, oblong. Style a little longer 
than the stamens. Stigma six-clelt, converging. Pericarp : 
capsule oblong, truncate, three-sided, three-celled, three- 
valved at the tip Seeds numerous, oblong, in two rows, 
covered with succulent laciniate arils.— Essential Character. 
Calyx none. Corolla three-petalled. Nectary two-leaved, 
with one of the leaves bifid. Capsule inferior three-celled, 
many seeded. Seeds in two rows, covered with an aril. 
Urania speciosa.—This is a very lofty tree with the appear¬ 
ance of Musa or Heliconia. Trunk undivided. Leaves distich, 
like those of Heliconia on petioles two feet in length. Spadix 
axillary, erect, shorter than the leaves. Spathes distich, 
ovate, concave as in the Heliconias many-flowered.—Native 
of Madagascar in marshy places; 
URANIENBURG, a castle in the island of Ween, in the 
Sound, now in ruins. It contained the observatory of Tycho 
Brahe. Lat. 55. 54. 38. N. long. 12. 42. 59. E. 
URANOSCOPUS, in Ichthyology, the name of a fish, 
called in English the star-gazer. The uranoscopus, in the 
Linnaean system, is a genus of the order of Jugulates; its 
characters are, that the head is depressed, rough, and large; 
the mouth has the upper jaw shorter than the lower; the 
branchiostege membrane has five rays, and is covered with 
small eminences like teeth; the opercula are membranous 
and ciliated; the anus is in the middle of the body. 
1. Uranoscopus Scaber, or star-gazer, with bearded lips 
and smooth back.—It is usually caught about seven or eight 
inches in length, but sometimes it grows to a foot; its head 
is very large, of a sort of square figure, covered by a strong 
bony case, roughened by an infinite number of small crests 
or protuberances; each side of this case is terminated above 
by two spiues, the under part has five spines smaller than 
those above. Its mouth is large, and opens perpendicularly 
downward, being placed in the same direction with the eyes 
in the upper part of the head; the tongue is thick, short, 
and roughened with a number of small teeth; under its 
chin is a beard or long cirrus extending to some distance 
beyond the lips; its eyes are small and prominent, and are 
so placed near each other in the upper part of its head, as 
naturally to look up to the heavens, whence it has its name; 
and though many of the flatfish have their eyes placed like 
those of this fish, yet the pupils in these are directed side¬ 
ways, whereas in this only they are turned straight upward ; 
the body is of a squarish torm as far as the vent, and then it 
becomes cylindric; it is covered with small scales, and 
marked near the back by a lateral line, composed of small 
pores or points bending from the neck to the pectoral fins on 
each side, and from thence in a straight line to the tail: on 
the back are two fins, the first being much shorter than the 
latter, and furnished with stronger spines; the pectoral fins 
are large, with soft rays ; the ventral fins are small; the tail 
is of moderate size, and rounded at the end; the colour of 
the body is brown, with a whitish or silvery cast towards 
the abdomen ; the head, pectoral fins, and tail having a 
strong ferruginous cast, and the first dorsal fin being marked 
towards its hind part by a large black spot. 
The star-gazer is an inhabitant of the Mediterranean and 
Northern seas, frequenting chiefly the shallow parts near the 
shores, and concealing itself in the mud, with the top of its 
head only exposed; in this situation it waves the beards of 
the lips, and particularly the long cirrus of the mouth, in 
various directions, thus alluring the smaller fishes and marine 
insects that are near, who, mistaking these organs for worms, 
are instantly seized by their concealed enemy. As an article 
of food it is coarse, and of an ill flavour: the gall was an¬ 
ciently considered as peculiarly efficacious in external dis¬ 
orders of the eyes. 
The reason of the situation of the eyes of the uranosco¬ 
pus, is the providence of nature for a fish, which, always 
keeping at the bottom, has no where to look for prey but in 
the water above it. Other fish, whose custom; it is to keep 
at the bottom, have eyes thus situated. 
2. Uranoscopus Japonicus.—With the back roughened by 
a semi-range of spinous scales. Found in the sea encom¬ 
passing 
