Ormin

See Ormulum. Ormonde (ôr'mond). The former name of East Munster (Tipperary), Ireland. Ormonde. A bay thoroughbred horse foaled in 1883. In 1886 he won the Derby, St. Leger, and Two Thou sand Guineas. He became a roarer, and was sent to Buenos Ayres. In 1892 he was bought by Mr. McDonough of California for $150,000, the largest price ever paid for a single animal. Ormonde is considered the greatest racer ever bred in England. Ormonde, Dukes and Earls of. See Butler . Ormskirk (ôrmzʻkėrk). A town in Lancashire, England, 12 miles north-northeast of Liverpool. Population (1891), 6,298. Ormulum (or'mu-lum). A series of metrical homilies on the New Testament, with paraphrases, composed by Orm or Ormin in the first part of the 13th century. He was an August in i an canon, and it is a umed that he lived in Lincoln shire or Nottingham shire, but there are arguments in favor of Ormskirk in Lancashire. Orm had a phonetic system of his own, distinguishing the short vowels by doubling the following consonant. The Ormulum was first edited from the MS. by Robert Meadows White in 1852. The intention of his work corresponded to that of the Scripture Paraphrase of Cædmon, although it differed much in plan and execution. His work is called, from his own name, the Ormulum. "This boc i nemmned Orrmulum Forrthi that Orm itt wrohhte." But though the author there, for a purpose, calls himself Orm, he says elsewhere that he was named Ormin. There remains only a portion of the work, and it is in a single MS. which forms a folio volume in the Junian collection, now preserved in the Bodleian. Morley, English Writers, III. 232. Ormus (or'mus), or Hormuz (hôr'muz). An ancient and medieval city situated on the southern coast of Persia at the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It was removed to a neighboring island in the Strait commerce of Ormus about 1300; became an emporium of comm and noted for its wealth; became dependent on Portugal in 1514; and in 1622 was taken by the Shah of Persia, a isted by the English. It is now in ruins. Milton cele brates "the wealth of Ormus and of Ind" ("Paradise Lost," ii. 2). Ormuzd. See Ahura Mazda . Orne (orn). A river in northern France which flows into the English Channel 10 miles northeast of Caen. Length, about 100 miles. Orta gráfico de Mexico" (1864), and various works on Mexican history and geography. He edited the Mexican supplement of the "Diccionario universal de hist or i a y geografía." Orphan, The, or the Unhappy Marriage. A tragedy by Otway, produced in 1680. See Mo nimia . Orphée aux Enfers (or-fā'ō zan-far'). [F., 'Orpheus in Hell.'] An opera bouffe by Offenbach, produced at Paris in 1858. Orphée et Euridice. See Orfeo ed Euridice . Orphéon (or-fa-ôn'). A general French name for a singing society, or a combination of such societies. An institution which in 1867 numbered in France alone 3,243 choral societies, with 147,500 effective members, and which still (1880) comprises 1,500 Orphéons and 60,000 Orpheonists, naturally required organs of its own, especially for the ventilation of topics connected with the "concours" and festivals. The most important of these are "La France chorale," "L'Echo des Orphéons," "La nouvelle France chorale," and "L'Orpheon." Grove, Dict. of Music, etc., II. 612. Orpheus (or'fus). [Gr. ' Ορφεύς .] In Greek legend, the gend, gend, the son of Apo Apollo, or of a Thracian river god, and husband of Eurydice. He had the power of charming all animate and inanimate objects with his sweet lyre; descended living into Hades to bring back to life Eurydice; and perished, torn to pieces by infuriated Thracian mænads. See Eurydice .