OWEN, author of the Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political, was a native of Suffolk. Of his private life so little is known that the dates of his birth and death can only be approximately conjectured. He was born in the reign of James I., and he was alive in 1677. Beyond this nothing has been ascertained concerning him, except that his learning and great moral worth gained for him the favourable opinion of the Earl of Thomond, and that he enjoyed the hospitality of that nobleman for several years. His only work, the Resolves, which is a collection of moral essays, divided into centuries, is replete with the most profound thought and brilliant wit exercised on subjects chiefly moral and religious, and displays at the same time so true and great a knowledge of the world that readers of every class cannot fail to be interested and instructed by a perusal of its pages. It has been very frequently reprinted.

FELUCCA (Ital. felucca), a little vessel with oars and lateen sails, common in the Mediterranean. It has a rudder at the stem and another at the stern, to be applied as occasion requires.