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passing Japan. This is above yellow, and underneath 
white. 
URAVE, a river of the province and government of 
Honduras, which rises near the coast, runs north, and enters 
the sea between Cape Camaron and the bay of Cartago. 
URBAN A, a post township of the United States, and 
capital of Champaign county, Ohio; 2 miles east of 
Madriver. 
URBANIA, a small town of Middle Italy, in the States 
of the Church, formerly the see of a bishop. It stands on 
the banks of the Mefauro; 6 miles east of St. Angelo, and 
9 south-west of Urbixo. 
URBA'NITY, s. [urbanitas, Latin.] Civility; ele¬ 
gance; politeness; merriment; facetiousness.—In jest, what 
urbanity he uses! B. Jonson. —Moral doctrine, and ur¬ 
banity, or well-mannered wit, constitute the Roman satire. 
Dryden. 
To U'RBANIZE, v. a. To render civil: to polish 
Not in use. —Refined nations, whom learning and know¬ 
ledge did first urbanize and polish. Howell. 
URBANNA, a post township of the United States, in 
Middlesex county, Virginia, on the south-west side of the 
Rappahannock; 60 miles east-north-east of Richmond. 
URBINO, a delegation or province of Italy, in the States 
of the Church, containing a population of 200,000. Also 
a town in the central part of Italy; 40 miles north-by-west 
of Ancona, and 50 south-by-east of Ravenna. Lat. 43. 43. 
36. N. long. 12. 37. 5. E. 
URCAS, rocks near the coast of Brazil. Lat. 4. 50. S. 
long. 35. 44. W. 
URCEO, (Antonio) Codrus Urceus, Lat., an eminent 
scholar, was born in 1446, at Rubiera, in the territory of 
Reggio, in Lombardy; and having been educated at 
Bologna, and under the famous Guarini at Ferrara, he 
became, in his 23d year, a teacher of the classics at Forli. 
He, after a residence of 13 years, removed to Bologna, where 
he taught grammar and eloquence, with great applause. His 
disregard of religion, however, and the freedom with which 
he expressed his doubts concerning a future state, rendered it 
necessary for him to engage the protection of the most 
reputable citizens. He died in the year 1500, much regretted 
by his disciples, who carried his remains to the place of 
interment. His distinguished reputation, as one of the most 
learned Greek and Latin scholars in his time, has been 
testified by his contemporaries, and particularly by Angelo 
Poliziano and Aldo Manuzio. His works, consisting of 
Latin letters, orations, and poems, and of a supplement to 
the “ Aulularia” of Plautus, were published at Bologna in 
1502, and have been often reprinted. 
URCHANY, a hill of Scotland, in Nairnshire, near the 
town of Nairn. 
URCHAY, or Urquhay, a river of Scotland, which 
rises on the borders of Perthshire, near the source of the 
Tay, and after a course of 10 or 12 miles through the beau¬ 
tiful vale of Glenorchay, falls into Loch Aw. 
URCHFORT, a parish of England, in Wiltshire; 2J 
miles north-east of East Lavington. Population 940. 
U'RCHIN, s. [ heureuchin , Armorick; erinaceus, Lat.] 
A hedge-hog. 
Urchins shall, for that vast of night that they may work, 
All exercise on thee. Shakspeare. 
A name of slight anger to a child. 
Pleas'd Cupid heard, and check’d his mother’s pride: 
And who’s blind now, mamma? the urchin cry’d. 
’Tis Cloe’seye, and cheek, and lip, and breast : 
Friend Howard’s genius fancy’d all the rest. Prior. 
URCOS, a town of Peru, in the province of Quispi- 
canchi; 12 miles south of Cuzco. 
URCUQUI, a settlement of Quito, in the province of 
Otavalo. 
URDINGEN, or Ordingen, a small fortified town of 
the Prussian province of Cleves and Berg, on the Rhine; 
10 miles north-north-east of Dusseldorf. 
URE, s. Practice ; use ; habit. Obsolete .—He would 
keep his hand in ure with somewhat of greater value, till he 
was brought to justice. L'Estrange. 
URE, or Youre, a river of England, in Yorkshire; 
which rises in the Colter mountain, in the north-west ex¬ 
tremity of the county, and passes by the towns of Askrig, 
Middleham, Massham, Rippon, and Boroughbridge; .below 
which last, being joined by the Swale, both these river's 
form what is called the Ouse. On this river is the magni¬ 
ficent cataract called Aysgard-Force, the water falling nearly 
half a mile upon a surface of stone, worn into infinite irre¬ 
gular cavities, and inclosed by bold and shrubby cliffs. 
UREN, a small town in the south-east of European 
Russia, in the government of Simbirsk; 58 miles west of 
Simbirsk. 
URENA [from uren, the vernacular name in Malabar], in 
Botany, a genus of the class monadelphia, order polyandria, 
natural order of columniferse, malvacese, (Juss). —Generic 
character. Calyx : perianth double; outer one-leafed, five 
cleft; segments wider; inner five-leaved; leaflets narrow, 
angular, permanent. Corolla: petals five, oblong, wider at 
the tip, blunt with a point, narrower at the base, growing to 
the tube of stamens. Stamina: filaments numerous, united 
at bottom into a tube, at top free. Anthers roundish. Pistil: 
germ roundish, five-cornered. Style simple, length of the 
stamens, ten-cleft. Stigmas headed, hairy, refiexed. Peri¬ 
carp : capsule roundish, echinate, five-cornered, five-celled, 
or soluble into five close cells. Seeds solitary, on one side 
roundish, on the other angular compressed. — Essential 
Character. Calyx double ; outer five-cleft. Capsule five- 
cleft, divisible into five parts, with the cells closed and one 
seed in each. 
1. Urena lobata, or angular-leaved urena.—Leaves round¬ 
ish-cordate angular, three-glanded underneath. This rises 
with an upright stalk upwards of two feet high, which be¬ 
comes woody towards the autumn.—Native of China and 
Cochinchina. 
2. Urena reticulata, or netted-leaved urena.—Leaves one- 
landed underneath, lower ones three-lobed, upper ones pan- 
uriform.—Native of South America. 
3. Urena tricuspis, or three-pointed urena. — Leaves 
glanded underneath, three-lobed, acuminate; stem rough¬ 
haired.—Native of the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon. 
4. Urena Americana, or American urena.—Leaves trifid, 
entire at the base.—Found in Surinam and Barbadoes. 
5. Urena sinuata, or cut-leaved urena.—Leaves three- 
glanded underneath, sinuate five-lobed ; lobes angular, tooth- 
letted, obtuse.—Native of the East Indies. 
6. Urena multifida.—Leaves one-glanded underneath, hir¬ 
sute five-lobed ; lobes oblong, acuminate, gash-toothed.— 
Native of the island of Mauritius. 
7. Urena procumbens, or trailing urena.—Leaves oblong - , 
sinuate, serrate ; stem procumbent.—Native of Cochinchina 
as well as China. 
8. Urena viminea.—-Leaves one-glanded, somewhat 
rhombed, toothed.—Native of Brazil. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are propagated 
by seeds, which should be sown on a hot-bed early in the 
spring ; and when the plants are fit to remove, they should 
be transplanted into pots, and plunged into a fresh hot-bed 
to bring them forward, and afterward they must be treated 
in the same manner as has been directed for the tender sorts 
of hibiscus. 
U'RETER, s. [ovgqryp ; uretere, Fr.] Ureters are two 
long and small canals from the bason of the kidnies, one on 
each side. Their use is to carry the urine from the kidnies to 
the bladder. Suincy. —The kidnies and ureters serve for 
expurgation. Wiseman. 
U'RETHRA, s. [ovjnj&pa; uretre, Fr.] The passage 
of the urine.—Caruncles are loose flesh, arising in the ure¬ 
thra. Wiseman. 
To URGE,. ®, a. [urgeo, Latin.] To incite ■ to push; 
to press by motives. 
You do mistake your business: my brother 
Did urge me in his act. Shakspeare. 
To provoke; to exasperate. 
Urge 
