Part 45 (1/2)
_Octavio_, the betrothed of Donna Clara.--Jephson, _Two Strings to your Bow_ (1792).
=Octer=, a sea-captain in the reign of King Alfred, who traversed the Norwegian mountains, and sailed to the Dwina in the north of Russia.
The Saxon swaying all, in Alfred's powerful reign, Our English Octer put a fleet to sea again.
Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xix. (1622).
=O'Cutter= (_Captain_), a ridiculous Irish captain, befriended by Lady Freelove and Lord Trinket. He speaks with a great brogue, and interlards his speech with sea terms.--George Colman, _The Jealous Wife_ (1761).
=Oc'ypus=, son of Podalirius and Astasia, noted for his strength, agility and beauty. Ocypus used to jeer at the gout, and the G.o.ddess of that disease caused him to suffer from it for ever.--Lucian.
=Odalisque=, in Turkey, one of the female slaves in the sultan's harem (_odalik_, Arabic, ”a chamber companion,” _oda_, ”a chamber”).
He went forth with the lovely odalisques.
Byron, _Don Juan_, vi. 29 (1824).
=Ode= (_Prince of the_), Pierre de Ronsard (1534-1585).
=Odoar=, the venerable abbot of St. Felix, who sheltered King Roderick after his dethronement.--Southey, _Roderick, Last of the Goths_, iv.
(1814).
? Southey sometimes makes the word Odoar' [_O'.dor_], and sometimes O'doar (3 _syl._), _e.g._:
Odoar', the venerable abbot sat (2 _syl._)....
Odoar' and Urban eyed him while he spake....
The Lady Adosinda O'doar cried (3 _syl._)....
Tell him in O'doar's name the hour has come!
=O'Doh'erty= (_Sir Morgan_), a pseudonym of W. Maginn, LL.D., in _Blackwood's Magazine_ (1819-1842).
=O'Donohue's White Horses.= The boatmen of Killarney, so call those waves which, on a windy day, come crested with foam. The spirit of O'Donohue is supposed to glide over the lake of Killarney every May-day on his favorite white horse, to the sound of unearthly music.
=Odori'co=, a Biscayan, to whom Zerbi'no commits Isabella. He proves a traitor, and tries to defile her, but is interrupted in his base endeavor. Almonio defies him to single combat, and he is delivered bound to Zerbino, who condemns him, in punishment, to attend on Gabrina for twelve months, as her squire. He accepts the charge, but hangs Gabrina on an elm, and is himself hung by Almonio to the same tree.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).
=Odors for Food.= Plutarch, Pliny, and divers other ancients tell us of a nation in India that lived only upon pleasing odors. Democ'ritos lived for several days together on the mere effluvia of hot bread.--Dr. John Wilkins (1614-1672).
=O'Dowd= (_Cornelius_), the pseudonym of Charles James Lever, in _Blackwood's Magazine_ (1809-1872).
=Odyssey.= Homer's epic, recording the adventures of Odysseus (_Ulysses_) in his voyage home from Troy.
Book I. The poem opens in the island of Calypso, with a complaint against Neptune and Calypso for preventing the return of Odysseus (3 _syl._) to Ithaca.