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n°les; Seimons, and other learned works.—Life by Parr, prefixed0 y«l.er’s Letters, 1686, lolio.

Us 1 AN It), a town Di Italy in Cremonese, seated on the Oalio,"tt' 3 , m i'‘' s N. L. of Cremona.

US] ION , [ustio, Lai.] in pharmacy, is the preparing of certainsubstances by burning Hum. I K o

USTULATION, [ nstulatio , Lat.] a word used l>y pharma-Ce uti c writers to express the roasting or torrefying of hninid orni °ist substances over a gentle (ire, so as to render them tit forPowdering. The same word is also used by some for what we cal!burning of wine.

USUCaPTION, [ usucaptio , Lat.] in the civil law, is an ac-quisition of the property of a thing, by a possession and enjoymenthereof for a certain term of years prescribed by law

USUFRTTIT. f njnis-iri/rfais T.:,l 1 in flip rivil l:n

USUFRUlT, [ usus-fructus , Lai.] in the civil law, the use oren J°yment of any lands, or tenements ; or the right of receivingl,e Iruits and profits of an inheritance, or other thing, without apo wer of alienating or changing the property thereof.

USURER, is a person who takes exorbitant interest for money.USURIOUS CONTRACT is any bargain or contract wherebya '"an is obliged to pay more interest for money than the statuteallows.

USURY, an unlawful contract upon the loan of money, to re-? C|v e the same again with exorbitant increase, kinder the articleInterest, it was observed, that by statute 37 Hen . VIII. c. 9,~" e rate of interest was fixed at 10/. per cent per annum: which‘he statute 13 Eliz. c. 8, confirms, and ordains, that all brokerss hall be guilty of a praemunire that transact any contracts for morb,an d the securities themselves shall be void. The statute 21 Jac.

I c - 17, reduced the interest to Si. per cent; and it having beenlowered in 1650, during the usurpation, to six per cent, the same^eduction was re-enacted after the Restoration bysfat. 12Car. II. c.

; and lastly the stat. 12 Anns, st. 2. c. 16, has reduced it to fiveP er cent. Wherefore not only all contracts for taking more are inthemselves totally void, but also the lender shall forfeit the moneyborrowed. Also if any scrivener or broker takes more than 5s. percent, procuration-money, or more than 12 d. for making a bond, heshall forfeit 20/. with costs, and shall suffer imprisonment for half ayear. r

USTEIvIA, in botany, a genus of the monandria monogyniaclass and order. Calyx four-toothed, with one segment muchlarger than the rest; corolla funnel-form, four-tootlied ; capsuleone-celled, two-seeded ; seeds arilled. There is but one speciesv iz. U. guineensis, a native of Guinea . ’

UTERUS, in anatomy. See Anatomy.

UTICA, in ancient geography, a town of Africa Propria, on theMediterranean ; a Tyrian colony, and older than Carthage .

UTOXETER, a town of England, in Staffordshire ;" 13 milesN. E. of Stafford, and 136 N. W. of London . Lon. 1. 50. W.Lat. 53. 10. N.

UTRECHT, one of the Seven United Provinces , or Slates ofUollam), wholly surrounded by Holland and Gueklerland, except-!n g a small part of it that borders on the Zuyder Zee. It enjoysgood air; and in most places the soil is fruitful, hut in -some sandy,

0r what is called turf-ground, and in others over-run with wood.

Utrecht, a large and celebrated city of the Netherlands ,Ca Pital of tl» above province, seated on the Rhine , 19 miles S. E.Amsterdam . Lon. 5. 8. E. Lat. 52. 7. N.

UTR1CULARIA, Water-milfoil; in botany, a genus ofP'ants of the class diandria, and order monogynia ; and in the na-3 ral system arranged under the twenty-fourth order, Corydales.7j al >’X ringent, with a nectarium resembling a spur; corolla di-P 'yll°us and equal; capsule unilocular. There are nine species;of which are natives of Britain . They have been applied to“Particular use.

uv ARIA, a genus of plants of the class and order polyandriaPq'ygamia. Calyx three-leaved; petals six; berries numerous,t u><hilous, four-seeded. There are eleven species, shrubs andy S .the East Indies.

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remarkably deformed, that his father threw him down from heavento the isle of Lemnos , in which fall he broke his leg, and there heset up his forge, and taught men how to sohcu and polish brassami non. Thence he removed to the Liparum isles, near Sicily ,where, by the assistance ol the Cyclops, he made Jupiter’s thun-derbolts, and armour for the other gods.

VULGA TE, a very ancient Latin translation of the Bible , aridthe only one acknowledged by Hie church of Rome to tie authen-tic. See Bible .

N, in Pagan worship, the god of subterraneous firePetals, was the son of Jupiter and Juno ; and was said to be so

VULNERARY, in medicine, an epitiiPt formerly given to re-medies supposed to possess virtues for the cure of wounds andulcer=.

VULTURE, in ornithology, a genus of birds of the orderAccipitres. Beak straight, hooked at the point; head lias no fea-thers ; tongue generally bifid. There are seventeen species.

V. Aura, the Carrion Vulture, according to Mr. Latham,is about the size of a turkey, though it varies in size in differentparts. The bill is white; the end black; irleies bluish saffron-colour. The head, and part of the neck, are bare of feather's;and of a red, or rather rulous colour. The sides of the head wart-ed, not tin like that ol a turkey. The whole plumage is brownblack, with a purple and green gloss in different reflections; butin some birds, especially young ones, greatly verging to dirtybrown. The feathers of the quills and tail are blacker than therest of the body. The legs are flesh-colour; the claws black.These birds are very common in the West Indies , and both ill N.and S. America. It feeds on dead carcases, snakes, &c. like mostof this genus; which makes the smell of it very offensive. In ge-neral, it is very tame in its wild state, but particularly so whentrained up from being young. In the West Indies , they roost to-gether at night, in vast numbers, like rooks in this country. Theyare reckoned a most useful animal in the places where they resort;which secures their safety, added to a penally for killing one,which is in force in Jamaica, and other islands of the West Indies .

V. Gryfhus, the Condor, which is not only the largest ofthis genus, but perhaps of all others which are able to fly. Theaccounts of authors in regard to its extent of wirig are various, viz.from nine to eighteen feet from the tip of one wing to that of theother. These birds are said to make their nest among the inacces-sible rocks, and to lay two white eggs, larger than those of a tur-key ; they are very destructive to sheep, and will in troops oftenattempt calves; in which case, some of them first pick out theeyes, whilst others attack the poor animal on all sides, and soontear ’him to pieces. This gives rise to the following stratagem,u,ed by the peasants of Chili: one of them wraps himself up inthe hide of a fresh killed sheep or ox, and lies still on the ground ;the condor, supposing it to be lawful prey, flies down to secure it,when the person concealed lays hold of the legs of the bird, hishands being well covered with gloves ; and immediately his com-rades who are concealed at a distance, run in, and assist to securelire depredator, by falling on him with sticks till they have killedhim.

UVULAR GLANDS. See Anatomy.

UVULARIA, Pennsylvania Solomon’s Seal; in botany, agenus of plants in the class hexandria, and order monogynia; natu-ral order, Sarmentosai. Corolla six-petaled, erect; nectary hol-low at the base of each petal ; filaments very short. There aresix species.

UXBRIDGE, atown of England, in Middlesex; 15 miles W.by N. of London , and 8 W. of Windsor. Lon. 0. 23. W. Lat.

51. 31. N.

UZBECK TARTARY. See Tartary.

UZEDA, a town ot Spain , in New Castile, capital of a duchyso named ; 20 miles N. "VV. of Alcala, and 30 N. of Madrid .

UZEL, a town of France , in the department of the NorthCoasts, and province of Bretagne ; 6 miles N. N. W. of Loudeac ,and 17 S. W. of St. Brieux.

UZERES, or UZES, a town of France , in the department ofthe Card, and province of Languedoc ; 12 miles W. of Nismes,

20 W. of Avignon , and 20 S. W. of Orange. Lon. 4. 27. E.

Lat. 44. 2. N.