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ORAL

Volume 3 · 65 words · 1771 Edition

something delivered by word of mouth, without being committed to writing; in which sense we say, oral law, oral tradition, &c.

ORANGE-tree, in botany. See Citrus.

Orange, in geography, a city of Provence, in France, capital of the principality of Orange; it is situated on the east side of the river Rhone, seventeen miles north of Avignon: E. long. 4° 46', N. lat. 44° 10'.