in the Roman antiquity, a laudatory triumph, allowed to commanders for victories won without the effusion of blood; or for defeating a mean and inconsiderable enemy. The show generally began at the Albanian mountain, whence the general with his retinue OVEN made his entry into the city on foot, with many flutes or pipes sounding in concert as he passed along, and wearing a garland or myrtle as a token of peace. The term ovation, according to Servius, is derived from ovus, a "sheep;" because on this occasion the conqueror sacrificed a sheep, as in triumph he sacrificed a bull. The senate, knights, and principal plebeians, assisted at the procession; which concluded at the Capitol, where rams were sacrificed to Jupiter. The first ovation was granted to Publius Posthumius the consul, for his victory over the Sabines in the 253rd year of Rome.

OUDÉ, a province of Hindoostan Proper, subject to a nabob, whose dominions lie on both sides of the Ganges, occupying the flat country between that river and the northern mountains, as well as the principal part of that fertile tract, lying between the Ganges and Jumna, known by the name of Doaba, to within 40 miles of the city Delhi. Oude and its dependencies are computed at about 360 miles long from east to west, and 180 broad. A brigade of the Bengal army is constantly stationed on the western frontier, answering the double purpose of covering both Oude and Bengal; in consideration of which the nabob pays an annual subsidy of 420,000l. sterling. The capital of the province is Lucknow. Oude is also the name of a city in the above province, said to have been the principal city of Hindoostan about 1200 years before the Christian era.