in the Roman antiquity, a lesser triumph, allowed to commanders for victories won without the effusion of blood; or for defeating a mean and insconsiderable enemy. The show generally began at the Alban mountain, whence the general with his retinue OVATION 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 a 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, for his victory over the Sabines in the 233rd year of Rome.

OUIDE, a province of Hindostan 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, to within 40 miles of the city Delhi. Oude is about 250 miles in length, by 100 miles in breadth. It is flat, well watered, and fertile in wheat, barley, rice, sugar-canes, indigo, and poppies. The inhabitants are tall, strong, and warlike. Since 1765, a British force has been stationed in the nabob's territories, and paid by him. But from the disorderly state of the nabob's government and finances, it was thought proper, in 1801, to put a great part of the country under the immediate government of the Company, and to relieve the nabob from all pecuniary claims. The gross revenue of the districts ceded, amounted to 13,525,474 Sicca rupees. Oude is also the name of a large town in this province. Lucknow is the capital.