e of silver, concealing the discoloration of his
complexion caused by the drug from the knowledge of his betrothed, who
has a nervous horror of ugliness and deformity. When she regains her
sight, he leaves her because he dares not disclose the truth that she
has mistaken his brother for himself, and does not enter her presence
until her sight again leaves her.--Wilkie Collins, _Poor Miss Finch_.

=Os'ewald= (3 _syl._), the reeve, of "the carpenteres craft," an old
man.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (1388).

=Oseway= (_Dame_), the ewe, in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_ (1498).

=O'Shanter= (_Tam_), a farmer, who, returning home from Ayr very late and
well-soaked with liquor, had to pass the kirk of Alloway. Seeing it was
illuminated, he peeped in, and saw there the witches and devils dancing,
while old Clootie was blowing the bagpipes. Tam got so excited that he
roared out to one of the dancers, "Weel done, Cutty Sark!" In a moment
all was dark. Tam now spurred his "grey mare Meg" to the top of her
speed, while all the fiends chased after him. The river Doon was near,
and Tam just reached the middle of the bridge when one of the witches,
whom he called Cutty Sark, reached him; but it was too late--he had
passed the _middle_ of the stream, and was out of the power of the crew.
Not so his mare's tail--that had not yet passed the magic line, and
Cutty Sark, clinging thereto, dragged it off with an infernal
wrench.--R. Burns, _Tam O'Shanter_.

=Osi'ris=, judge of the dead, brother and husband of Isis. Osiris is
identical with Adonis and Thammuz. All three represent the sun, six
months above the equator, and six months below it. Adonis passed six
months with Aphrod[=i]t[^e] in heaven, and six months with
Perseph[)o]n[^e] in hell. So Osiris in heaven was the beloved of Isis,
but in the land of darkness was embraced by Nepthys.

_Osiris_, the sun; Isis, the moon.

They [_the priests_] wore rich mitres shaped like the moon,
To show that Isis doth the moon portend,
Like as Osiris signifies the sun.

Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, v. 7 (1596).

=Osman=, sultan of the East, the great conqueror of the Christians, a man
of most magnanimous mind and of noble generosity. He loved Zara, a young
Christian captive, and was by her beloved with equal ardor and
sincerity. Zara was the daughter of Lusignan d'Outremer, a Christian
king of Jerusalem; she was taken prisoner by Osman's father, with her
elder bro