serve the rule of St. Francis; to
abjure books, land, house and chapel, to live on alms, dress in rags,
feed on scraps and sleep anywhere.

=Obstinate=, an inhabitant of the City of Destruction, who advised
Christian to return to his family, and not run on a wild-goose
chase.--Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_, i. (1678).

=Occasion=, the mother of Furor; an ugly, wrinkled old hag, lame of one
foot. Her head was bald behind, but in front she had a few hoary locks.
Sir Guyon seized her, gagged her and bound her.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry
Queen_, ii. 4 (1590).

=Ochiltree= (_Old Edie_), a king's bedesman or blue-gown. Edie is a
garrulous, kind-hearted, wandering beggar, who assures Mr. Lovel that
the supposed ruin of a Roman camp is no such thing. The old bedesman
delighted "to daunder down the burnsides and green shaws." He is a
well-drawn character.--Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George
III.).

=Ocnus= (_The Rope of_), profitless labor. Ocnus is represented as
twisting with unwearied diligence a rope, which an ass eats as fast as
it is made. The allegory signifies that Ocnus worked hard to earn money,
which his wife spent by her extravagance.

=Octave= (2 _syl._), the son of Argante (2 _syl._). During the absence
of his father, Octave fell in love with Hyacinthe, daughter of
G['e]ronte, and married her, supposing her to be the daughter of Signor
Pandolphe, of Tarentum. His father wanted him to marry the daughter of
his friend G['e]ronte, but Octave would not listen to it. It turned out,
however, that the daughter of Pandolphe and the daughter of G['e]ronte
were one and the same person, for G['e]ronte had assumed the name of
Pandolphe while he lived in Tarentum, and his wife and daughter stayed
behind after the father went to live at Naples.--Moli[`e]re, _Les
Fourberies de Scapin_ (1671).

[Asterism] In the English version, called _The Cheats of Scapin_, by
Thomas Otway, Octave is called "Octavian," Argante is called "Thrifty,"
Hyacinthe is called "Clara," and G['e]ronte is "Gripe."

=Octavian=, the lover of Floranth[^e]. He goes mad because he imagines
Floranth[^e] loves another; but Roque, a blunt, kind-hearted old man,
assures him that Do[~n]a Floranth[^e] is true to him, and induces him to
return home.--Colman, the younger, _The Mountaineers_ (1793).

_Octavian_, the English form of "Octave" (2 _syl._), in Otway's _Cheats
of Scapin_. (See OCTAVE.)

=Octa'vio=, the supposed husband of Jacintha. Th