"The storme was so outrageous,
And with rumlings oragious,
That I did feare."
ORAMBY. A sort of state-barge used in the Moluccas; some of them are
rowed by 40, 80, or even, it is said, 100 paddles each.
ORARIAE. Ancient coasting vessels.
ORB. The circular figure made by a body of troops.
ORBIT. The path described by a planet or comet round the sun.
ORBITAL. Relating to the orbit of a heavenly body.
ORC. Wrack or sea-weed, used as manure on some of the coasts of England.
ORCA. A classical name for a large voracious sea-animal, probably a
grampus. Anglicized as ork or orc; thus in the second song of Drayton's
strange _Polyolbion_--
"The ugly orks, that for their lord the ocean woo."