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OTTEBBEIN UNIVEBSITY 64 on fish, and is therefore rarely met with far from water. The female produces from three to five at a birth, usually in March or April, and brings them up in a nest formed of grass, and usually in a hollow in a river bank or in the shelter of the roots of some overhanging tree. OUDH OTTER In angling, an instrument for fishing, so called from its destructive nature. It is a float, from which lines run out with bait or flies, and which is either moored or trailed parallel to a boat. Called also a trot line. In entomology, the larva of the ghost moth. OTTEREEIN UNIVEBSITY, a coed- ucational institution in Westerville, O.; founded in 1847 under the auspices of the United Brethren; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instruc- tors, 25; students, 474; president, W. G. Clippinger. OTTERBURN, a township of Eng- land, Northumberland county, 20 iniles N. N. W. of Hexham. About half a mile from the village is an obelisk marking the spot where Earl Douglas fell in the battle of Chevy Chase, in 1388. OTTERY ST. MARY, a town of Dev- onshire, on the river Otter, 11 miles E. of Exeter. Twice the scene of a great con- flagration, in 1767 and 1866, it retains its magnificent collegiate church, a reduced copy of the cathedral of Exeter, with the only other transeptal towers in England. Begun about 1260 by Bishop Brones- combe, it is Early English, decorated, and perpendicular in style and was re- stored by Butterfield in 1849-1850. The old King's grammar school was demol- ished in 1884. Alexander Barclay was a priest here; Coleridge was a native; and "Clavering" in "Pendennis" is Ot- tery St. Mary, the Devonshire residence of Thackeray's stepfather. Silk shoe laces, handkerchiefs, and Honiton lace ♦ are manufactured. OTTOMAN EMPIRE. See Turkey. OTTTTMWA, a city and county-seat of Wapello CO., la.: on Des Moines river, and on the Burlington Route, the Wa- bash, and other railroads; 75 miles W. of Burlington. The city has a United States Government Building, Normal School, business college, Hawkeye Hospi- tal, court house, National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It is in a rich coal region, and contains oil and starch mills, iron works, meat- packing plant, and numerous other in- dustries. Pop. (1910) 22,012; (1920) 23,003. OTWAY, THOMAS, an English dra- matist; born in Trotton, Sussex, in 1652; educated at Winchester, and at Christ Church, Oxford; served as cornet in the Low Countries; was an unsuccessful ac- tor, and finally wrote for the stage. Of his many plays, one tragedy, "Venice Preserved," is among the best remem- bered of the Restoration drama, and keeps his name familiar in literary al- lusion. "The Orphan" ranks next in critical esteem. He died in 1685. OUDENARDE, a town of Belgium, on the Scheldt, 37 miles W. of Brussels. It has a fine Gothic town hall (1535) and two interesting churches. Margaret of Parma was born here. In 1706 Ouden- arde was taken by Marlborough; and an attempt made by the French to retake it brought on the famous battle of Ouden- arde, the third of Marlborough's four great victories, which was gained, on July 11, 1708, with the aid of Prince Eugene, over the French under the Duke of Burgundy and Marshal Villars. Pop. about 7,500. The town was occupied by the Germans early in the World War (1914-1918). An American division, the 91st was here engaged in attacks on tht German forces when the armistice was declared. OUDH, a province and town of British India, separated on the N. from Nepal by the lower ranges of the Himalaya, whence it gradually slopes, a great plain watered by the Gumti, Gogra, and Rapti rivers, to the Ganges; area 24,158 square miles. Pop. province, about 13,000,000. Town, 23,000, mostly Hindus, though the dominant native race for centuries has been Mohammedan. The Brahmans are the most numerous class, about one- eighth of the whole population. Oudh is believed to have been one of the oldest seats of Aryan civilization in India. After being the center of a long native Hindu dynasty it was subjugated by the ruler of Kanauj, and in 1194 was made subject to the Mussulman empire of Delhi. In 1732-1743 it became virtually an independent state, and the dynasty of the NaAvabs lasted till the annexation of the province by the British in 1856. Dur-