acbuc_ (Hebrew for
"bottle").--Rabelais, _Pantag'ruel_, iv., v. (1545).

=Oracle= (_Sir_), name used in Merchant of Venice to express conceited,
pugnacious man.

... I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!"[TN-49]

=Orange= (_Prince of_), a title given to the heir-apparent of the king of
Holland. "Orange" is a petty principality in the territory of Avignon,
in the possession of the Nassau family.

=Orania=, the lady-love of Am'adis of Gaul.--Lobeira, _Amadis of Gaul_
(fourteenth century).

=Orator Henley=, the Rev. John Henley, who for about thirty years
delivered lectures on theological, political, and literary subjects
(1692-1756).

[Asterism] Hogarth has introduced him into several of his pictures; and
Pope says of him:

Imbround with native bronze, lo! Henley stands,
Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands,
How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!
How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung!...

Oh, great restorer of the good old stage,
Preacher at once and zany of thy age!
Oh, worthy thou of Egypt's wise abodes;
A decent priest where monkeys were the gods!

_The Dunciad_ (1742).

=Orator Hunt=, the great demagogue in the time of the Wellington and Peel
administration. Henry Hunt, M.P., used to wear a gray hat, and these
hats were for the time a badge of democratic principles, and called
"radical hats" (1773-1835).

=Orbaneja=, the painter of Ube'da, who painted so preposterously that he
inscribed under his objects what he meant them for.

Orbaneja would paint a cock so wretchedly designed that he was
obliged to inscribe under it, "This is a cock."--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, II. i. 3 (1615).

=Orbilius=, the schoolmaster who taught Horace. The poet calls him "the
flogger" (_plag[=o]sus_).--_Ep._ ii. 71.

[Asterism] _The Orbilian Stick_ is a birch rod or cane.

=Ordigale=, the otter in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_, i. (1498).

=Ordovi'ces= (4 _syl._), people of Ordovicia, that is, Flintshire,
Denbighshire, Merionetshire, Montgomeryshire, Carnarvonshire and
Anglesey. (In Latin the _i_ is short: _Ordov[)i]c[^e]s_.)

The Ordov[=i]ces now which North Wales people be.

Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xvi. (1613).

=Or'dovies= (3 _syl._), the inhabitants of North Wales. (In Latin North
Wales is called _Ordovic'ia_.)

Beneath his [_Agricola's_] fatal sword the Ordovies to fall