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and rapid, and its voracity insatiable: it lives on carrion and 
reptiles; is generally seen single and in marshy places. 
20. Vultur plancus, or whitish vulture.—With transverse 
blackish lines, brown wings, and slightly crested black 
crown. This is the vultur plancus of Latham, the falco 
plancus of Linnaeus and Gmelin, the plaintive eagle and 
plaintive vulture of Latham.—It is a native of Terra del 
Fuego. 
21. Vultur cheriway.—With rose-coloured cere, yel¬ 
low legs, ferruginous body, and whitish head with ferru¬ 
ginous crest. This is a kind of doubtful species, which may 
be considered either as a vulture or an eagle. Jacquin first 
described it, after having observed it in the island of Aruba, 
near the coast of Venezuela in South America. 
VULTURARA, an inland town of Italy, in Naples, in 
the Principato Ultra; 65 miles north-east of Naples. Popu¬ 
lation 3800. 
VU'LTURINE, adj. [ vulturinus , Lat.] Belonging to a 
vulture. 
VU'LTUROUS, adj. Like a vulture; voracious.—His 
vulturous stomach leis loose upon himself, and within few 
minutes more, one-half of him devours the other. Ham- 
mond. 
U'VULA, s. \_uvula, Latin.] In anatomy, a round soft 
spongeous body, suspended from the palate near the fora¬ 
mina of the nostrils over the glottis. Todd. —By an instru¬ 
ment bended up at one end, I got up behind the uvula. 
Wiseman. 
UVULARIA [from the form of the uvula in the inflo¬ 
rescence], in Botany, a genus of the class hexandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of sarmentacese, lilia (Juss.) — 
Generic Character. Calyx none. Corolla: petals six, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, erect, very long. Nectary an 
oblong hollow in the base of each petal. Stamina: filaments 
six, very short, widish. Anthers long, erect, shorter by half 
than the corolla. Pistil: germ roundish. Style three-cleft 
half way, longer than the stamens. Stigmas simple, reflex. 
Pericarp: capsule ovate-oblong, triangular, three-celled, 
acute. Seeds many, roundish, compressed.— Essential 
Character. Corolla six-pefalled, erect. Nectary a hollow 
at the base of each petal. Filament very short. 
1. Uvularia amplexifolia, or heart-leaved uvularia.—Leaves 
embracing, they and the stem smooth. Root perennial. 
Stalk annual, rising about two feet high, and sending out one 
or two branches from the lower part. The flowers come out 
singly from the bosoms of the leaves upon long slender foot¬ 
stalks ; they are yellow, hang downwards, and appear at the 
latter end of April.—Native of Bohemia, Silesia, Saxony, 
Switzerland, Dauphine and Piedmont. 
2. Uvularia hirta, or hairy uvularia.—Leaves embracing, 
rough-haired ; stem villose.—Native of Japan, near Jedo. 
3. Uvularia lanceolata, or spear-leaved uvularia.—Leaves 
perfoliate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate.—Native of North 
America. 
4. Uvularia perfoliata, or perfoliate uvularia.—Leaves 
perfoliate ovate.—Native of North America. 
5. Uvularia sessilifolia, or sessile-leaved uvularia.—Leaves 
sessile.—Native of Canada. 
6. Uvularia cirrhosa, or tendril-leaved uvularia.—Leaves 
sessile, cirrhose. Stem round, jointed, striated, smooth, 
simple, erect.—Native of Japan. 
Propagation and Culture. —These are very hardy plants, 
and will live in the full ground, but as the flowers have not 
much beauty, they are only cultivated for the sake of variety. 
They are increased by parting their roots, the best season for 
which is about Michaelmas. They may be removed every 
third year; but if they are removed oftener, the plants will 
not flower so strong. They delight in hazel loam. 
UWCHLAND, a township of the United States, in Ches¬ 
ter county, Pennsylvania. Population 1178. 
UXBRIDGE, a township and chapelry of England, in 
the parish of Hillingdon, Middlesex. The town consists of 
one street, nearly a mile in length. The river Coin runs in 
two streams at the west end, having a new brick bridge over 
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the main branch. That part of the town called Hillingdon- 
end, and which is not in the liberties of the township, still 
remains unpaved, but the rest is paved and lighted by virtue 
of an act of parliament. Near the canal is an ancient build¬ 
ing, called the treaty-house, from its being the place where 
the commissioners of Charles I. and the parliament met in 
1644. It is now the crown inn. In the vicinity anciently 
called Heiling Down, from whence the parish derived the 
name of Hillingdon, are the remains of a camp, supposed to 
have been thrown up by the Britons, against their invaders, 
the Romans. The town is governed by two bailiffs, two 
constables, and four headboroughs. Market on Thursday. 
Fairs 25th March, 31st July, 29th September, and 11th 
October, for cattle, provision, &c.; and the two latter are 
statute fairs; 15 miles from London. 
UXBRIDGE, a post township of the United States, in 
Worcester county, Massachusetts; 18 miles south-south-east 
of Worcester, and 40 south-west of Boston. Population 
1404. 
UXIXAR, or Uxijar, a small inland town in the south 
of Spain, in Granada, among the mountains of Alpujarras; 
] 4 miles east-south-east of Granada. 
UXMORE, a hamlet of England, in Oxfordshire, north¬ 
west of Henly-upon-Thames. 
UXO, a town of the east of Spain, Valencia, with 2800 
inhabitants; 32 miles north-by-east of Valencia. 
UXO'RIOUS, adj. [ uxorius , Latin.] Submissively fond 
of a wife; infected with connubial dotage. 
That uxorious king, whose heart, though large. 
Beguil’d by fair idolatresses, fell 
To idols foul. Milton. 
UXO'RIOUSLY, adv. With fond submission to a wife. 
If thou art thus uxoriously inclin’d 
To bear thy bondage with a willing mind. 
Prepare thy neck. Drydcn. 
UXO'RIOUSNESS, s. Connubial dotage; fond submis¬ 
sion to a wife. 
Courage may be chang’d 
To brutal force, and tender nuptial love 
To mean uxoriousness. Downman. 
UYA, a small pasture island in Shetland, which covers’a 
safe harbour of the same name on the north coast of the 
Mainland. 
UYA, a small island in Shetland, about a square mile in 
extent, lying on the south coast of the island of Unst, be¬ 
tween which is the safe and commodious harbour called Uya 
sound. It is uninhabited, but affords good pasture for sheep 
and black cattle. 
VYTEGRA, a town of European Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Olonetz, on the river Vytegra. It has nearly 2000 
inhabitants. 
UZEL, a small town in the north-west of France, in Bri- 
tany, department of the Cotes du Nord; 9 miles north-west 
of Loudeac, and 18 south-east of St. Brieux. 
UZERCHE, a small town in the interior of France, 
department of the Correze; 15 miles north-west of Tulle, 
and 20 north of Brives. 
UZES, a town in the south-east of France, the capital of 
an arrondissement in the department of the Gard ; 12 miles 
north of Nismes, and 20 west of Avignon. 
UZESTE, a small town in the south-west of France, de¬ 
partment of the Gironde, with 1000 inhabitants. 
UZLIEKS, a numerous race of Tartars, who have now 
conquered and occupied the greater part of Independant 
Tartary. 
UZNACH, a small town in the north-east of Switzerland, 
the chief place of a district in the canton of St. Gall, not far 
from the eastern extremity of the lake of Zurich; 23 miles 
south-east of Zurich. 
UZWEIL UPPER, a large village in the north-east of 
Switzerland, in the Canton of St. Gall and the LowerToggen- 
burg; 13 miles west of St. Gall, on the road to Zurich. 
