Orange – Orfah
Orange
a town of Connecticut, in New Haven co. It is on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad. It is chiefly a farming community, but its industries include the manufacture of automobiles, ribbons, and buckles. Pop., ORANGE ORATORIO including West Haven borough, (1910) reached by railway from Port Elizabeth. 11,272; (1920) 16,614.
Orange
FORT, an old fort built by the Dutch in 1623, on the site of the present city of Albany, N. Y.
Oration
an elaborate speech or discourse, composed according to the rules of oratory, and delivered in public, and treating of some important subject in elevated and dignified language; an eloquent speech prepared beforehand and spoken in public.
Oratory
an apartment in a private house or building designed for domestic worship. It differs from a chapel inasmuch as it contains no altar, nor may mass be performed in it.
Orbiculina
a genus of minute foraminifers, found alive in tropical seas, as also fossil in the Tertiaries. They have their name from their flattened globular shape.
Orbit
in anatomy, the bony cavity in which the eye is situated. In astronomy, the path of a primary planet in its revolution round the sun, or a secondary one in its revolution round the primary. In ornithology, the skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.
Ordeal Tree
in botany: Of tively of the second, third, etc., orders. Guinea, Erythrophlæum guineense; of Madagascar, Cerbera tanguin. The fruit, which is poisonous, is given in some kind of broth to the accused person. If he recover, he is deemed innocent; if he die, this is to be held to prove his guilt.
Orders
MILITARY, fraternities or societies of men banded together in former times for military and partly for patriotic or Christian purposes. Free birth and an irreproachable life were the conditions of admission. The chief were the Templars, the Teutonic Knights, and the order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Ordovician
a name sometimes given to a geological formation intermediate between Cambrian and Silurian; otherwise accounted the Lower Silurian strata. It is so called from the Ordovices, an ancient British tribe.
Orel
the capital of the province of the same name in Russia. It is on Oka river, about 240 miles S. of Moscow.
There are several schools and a theological seminary. It is the seat of a bishop and contains several cathedrals. The chief manufactories are candles, oil, and flour. The city was founded in 1564.
Pop. about 100,000.
O'Rell
MAX. See BLOUET, PAUL.
Orfah
OORFA, or URFA (ancient Edessa) a fortified town of Asiatic Turkey, 78 miles S. W. of Diarbekr. It is well built, and has a considerable trade with North Syria and Mesopotamia. It is supposed to be the site of the "Ur of the Chaldees," mentioned in Scripture. Pop. about 30,000, mostly Mohammedans.