his monastic cellars.--Chambers, _English Literature_, ii. 586.

=Oldcastle= (_Sir John_), a drama by Anthony Munday (1600). This play
appeared with the name of Shakespeare on the title-page.

=Old Sledge.= Game of cards that, played at the "Settlemint"--(a group of
log huts) among the Tennessee mountains, has a fatal fascination for
Josiah Tait, who loses to a former suitor of the woman he has married
everything he owns. The property is restored through the unexpected
magnanimity of the winner, and the playing of Old Sledge becomes a lost
art at the "Settlemint."--Charles Egbert Craddock, _In the Tennessee
Mountains_ (1884).

=Oldworth=, of Oldworth Oaks, a wealthy squire, liberally educated, very
hospitable, benevolent, humorous, and whimsical. He brings up Maria,
"the maid of the Oaks" as his ward, but she is his daughter and
heiress.--J Burgoyne, _The Maid of the Oaks_ (1779).

=Ole 'Stracted=, a superannuated negro, formerly a slave, whose fancy is
to wait in a hut on the old plantation for his master's return. He was
"sold South" forty years before, and his young master promised to go
down next summer and buy him back. The poor fellow has saved in these
years twelve hundred dollars to pay for his freedom. Unknown to himself
or to them, his son and daughter-in-law minister to him in his last
moments. He has put on his clean shirt, sure that "young marster" will
come to-day. Rising to his feet he cries out:

"Heah de one you lookin' for, Marster! Mymy--heah's Little Ephrum!"

And with a smile on his face he sank back into his son's arms.--Thomas
Nelson Page, _In Ole Virginia_ (1887).

=Olifant=, the horn of Roland or Orlando. This horn and the sword
"Durinda'na" were buried with the hero. Turpin tells us in his
_Chronicle_ that Charlemagne heard the blare of this horn at a distance
of eight miles.

_Olifant_ (_Basil_), a kinsman of Lady Margaret Bellenden, of the Tower
of Tillietudlem.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

=Olifaunt= (_Lord Nigel_), of Glenvarloch. On going to court to present a
petition to James I. he aroused the dislike of the duke of Buckingham.
Lord Dalgarno gave him the cut direct, and Nigel struck him, but was
obliged to seek refuge in Alsatia. After various adventures he married
Margaret Ramsay, the watch-maker's daughter, and obtained the
title-deeds of his estates.--Sir W. Scott, _The Fortunes of Nigel_
(time, James I.).

=Olim'pia=, the wife of