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U'TTERMOST, adj, [uttepmaepc, Saxon.] Extreme} 
being in the highest degree. 
Bereave me not, 
Whereon I live ! thy gentle looks, thy aid, 
Thy counsel in this uttermost distress. Milton. 
Most remote.—The land, from the uttermost end of the 
straits on Peru side, did go towards the south. Abbot. 
U'TTERMOST, s. The greatest.—There needed neither 
promise nor persuasion to make her do her uttermost for her 
father’s service. Sidney. —The extreme part of any thing.— 
A city in the uttermost of thy border. Numb. 
UTTOXETER, a market town of England, in the county 
of Stafford, is situated on a gentle eminence, close to the 
western bank of the river Dove, over which is a noble stone 
bridge that connects the two counties of Stafford and Derby. 
It is a place of great antiquity, and is supposed to have been 
a British settlement previous to the Roman invasion. Po¬ 
pulation 2779; 13 miles north-east of Stafford, and 136 
north-west of London. 
UVA, a lake of Asiatic Russia, in the government of To¬ 
bolsk, about 28 miles in circumference; 68 miles south-east 
of Tobolsk, 
UVA URSI, in Botany, the name of a species of arbutus, 
(see Arbutus,) with trailing stalks, and entire leaves, called 
in English, bear’s whortleberry. 
UVARIA, [from the figure of the fruit like a bunch of 
grapes], in Botany, a genus of the class polyandria, order 
polygynia, natural order of coadunatae, anonee (Juss .)— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth three-leaved, flat; 
leaflets ovate, acute, permanent. Corolla: petals six, lan¬ 
ceolate, sessile, spreading, longer than the calyx. Stamina: 
filaments none. Anthers numerous, truncate, oblong, co¬ 
vering the germ on which they are placed. Pistil: germ 
ovate. Styles numerous, length of the anthers, terminating 
the head. Stigmas obtuse. Pericarp: berries numerous, 
distinct, globular, peduncled, fastened to an oblong recep¬ 
tacle. Seeds numerous.— Essential Character. Calyx, 
three-leaved. Petals six. Berries numerous, pendulous, 
four seeded. 
1. Uvaria Zeylanica.—Leaves lanceolate, acuminate; pe¬ 
duncle one-flowered, solitary; petals roundish, obtuse, 
equal. This is a climbing shrub, by means of a long un¬ 
armed branching stem, but without tendrils.—Native of the 
East Indies. » 
2. Uvaria lanceolata, or lance-wood uvaria.—Leaves 
lanceolate, quite entire; flowers axillary, solitary; branches 
wand-like.—Native of Jamaica, and pretty common in the 
woods of Portland; reckoned one of the best timber trees in 
the island, especially where strength or elasticity is required ; 
but it seldom grows to any considerable size. It is imported 
under the name of lance-wood, and is used for the shafts of 
very light carriages. 
3. Uvaria cerasoides, or cherry-fruited uvaria.—Leaves 
lanceolate, acute, pubescent, beneath; peduncles one-flow¬ 
ered, solitary; petals ovate, acute, equal. It is a large tree, 
a native of the mountainous inland parts of the circars. It 
does not cast its leaves, and flowers during the hot season. 
4. Uvaria suberosa, or cork-barked uvaria.—Leaves ob¬ 
long, acute, smooth; peduncles one-flowered, solitary, the 
three inner petals lanceolate. Trunk remarkably straight, 
with a scabrous bark, very deeply split in various directions. 
This is much more common than the former; seldom ac¬ 
quiring the size of a tree, except among the mountains. It 
is in flower and fruit all the year, and does not cast its leaves. 
The wood is more useful than that of the former; is of a 
chocolate colour, durable, and very elastic. 
5. Uvaria tomentosa, or downy-leaved uvaria.—Leaves 
oblong, acute, tomentose; peduncles one-flowered, solitary, 
the three inner petals ovate.—-It is a large tree, native of the 
Circar mountains, and flowers during the hot season. 
6. Uvaria odorata, or sweet-smelling uvaria.—Leaves 
ovate-lanceolate; peduncles one-flowered, solitary; petals 
linear-lanceolate, very long.—Native of Java and China. 
7. Uvaria monosperma, or capsuled uvaria.—Leaves el¬ 
liptic, acuminate, ferruginous, beneath; peduncles one-flow¬ 
ered, aggregate ; petals ovate, acute.—Native of Guinea, in 
remote woods. 
8. Uvaria lutea.—Leaves oblong, acute, shining; pedun¬ 
cles three-flowered, solitary; petals ovate, obtuse. This is 
also a pretty large tree, and grows only among the moun¬ 
tains. 
9. Uvaria ligularis.—Leaves ovate, acute; peduncles 
many-flowered, solitary; petals linear, acute, very lone.— 
Native of Amboina. 
10. Uvaria longifolia.—Leaves lanceolate, waved at the 
edge; peduncles umbelled; petals lanceolate, acute.—Na¬ 
tive of the East Indies. 
11. Uvaria Japonica.—Leaves oblong, acuminate, serrate; 
peduncles one-flowered, solitary; petals roundish. Stem 
frutescent, twining and decumbent, tubercled with scars, 
nodding at the top, naked, rufescent.—Native of Japan, and 
growing very plentifully in several places round the harbour 
of Nagasaki. 
U'VEOUS, adj. [from uva, Lat.] The uveous coat, or 
iris of the eye, hath a musculous power, and can dilate and 
contract that round hole in it, called the pupil. Ray. 
VUGT, an inland town of the Netherlands, in North 
Brabant, containing 1400 inhabitants; 3 miles south of 
Bois le Due. 
VUKOVAR, a town of the Austrian states, the capital of 
the county of Syrmiurn, in Sclavonia, situated on the 
Danube, where it is joined by the small river Vuko, which 
divides Vukovar into two parts, called the Old and New 
towns; 21 miles south-east of Eszek. Lat. 45. 21. 9. N. 
long. 19. 1. 25. E. 
VULCA'NO, s. [Italian.] A burning mountain: it is 
commonly written after the Italian volcano. —Earth calcined, 
flies off into the air; the ashes of burning mountains, in 
vulcanos, will be carried to great distances. Arbuthnot. 
VU'LGAR, adj. [vulgaris, Latin.] Plebeian; suiting 
to the common people.—Men who have passed all their time 
in low and vulgar life, cannot have a suitable idea of the 
several beauties aud blemishes in the actions of great men. 
Addison. —Vernacular; national.—It might be more useful 
to the English reader, who was to be his immediate care, to 
write in our vulgar language. Fell. —Mean; low; being 
of the common rate. 
Now wasting years my former strength confound, 
And added woes have bosv’d me to the ground: 
Yet by the stubble you may guess the grain, 
And mark the ruins of no vulgar man. Broome. 
Public; commonly bruited. 
Do you hear aught of a battle toward ?-- 
—Most sure, and vulgar; every one hears that. 
Shakspeare. 
VU'LGAR, s. [ vulgaire , Fr.] The common people. 
I’ll about; 
Drive away the vulgar from the streets. Shakspeare. 
VU'LGARISM, s. Grossness; meanness ; vulgarity.— 
The great events of Greek and Roman fable and history, 
which early education, and the usual course of reading have 
made familiar and interesting to all Europe, without being 
degraded by the vulgarism of ordinary life in any country. 
Reynolds. 
To VU'LGARIZE, v. a. To render mean or vulgar.— 
Sometimes a single word will vulgarize a poetical idea. 
Arbuthnot and Pope. 
VULGA'RITY, s. Meanness; state of the lowest people. 
—True it is, and I hope I shall not offend their vulgarities , 
if I say they are daily mocked into error by devisers. Brown. 
—Mean or gross mode.—Is the grandesophos of Persius, and 
the sublimity of Juvenal to be circumscribed with the mean¬ 
ness of words, and vulgarity of expression? Dry den. 
VU'LGARLY, adv. Commonly; in the ordinary man¬ 
ner; among the common people. 
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