under the command of
Waldegrave (2 _syl._), a general massacre was made, in which Waldegrave
and his wife was[TN-55] slain. But Mrs. Waldegrave, before she died,
committed her boy, Henry, to the charge of Outalissi, and told him to
place the child in the hands of Albert of Wy'oming, her friend. This
Outalissi did. After a lapse of fifteen years, one Brandt, at the head
of a mixed army of British and Indians, attacked Oneida, and a general
massacre was made; but Outalissi, wounded, escaped to Wyoming, just in
time to give warning of the approach of Brandt. Scarcely was this done,
when Brandt arrived. Albert and his daughter, Gertrude, were both shot,
and the whole settlement was extirpated.--Campbell, _Gertrude of
Wyoming_ (1809).

=Outis= (Greek for "nobody"), a name assumed by Odysseus (_Ulysses_) in
the cave of Polypheme (3 _syl._). When the monster roared with pain from
the loss of his eye, his brother giants demanded who was hurting him.
"Outis" (_Nobody_), thundered out Polypheme, and his companions left
him.--Homer, _Odyssey_.

=Outram= (_Lance_), park-keeper to Sir Geoffrey Peveril.--Sir W. Scott,
_Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Overdees= (_Rowley_), a highwayman.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time,
George II.).

=O'verdo= (_Justice_), in Ben Jonson's _Bartholomew Fair_ (1614).

=Overdone= (_Mistress_), a bawd.--Shakespeare, _Measure for Measure_
(1603).

=Overreach= (_Sir Giles_), Wellborn's uncle. An unscrupulous, hard-hearted
rascal, grasping and proud. He ruined the estates both of Wellborn and
Allworth, and by overreaching grew enormously rich. His ambition was to
see his daughter Margaret marry a peer; but the overreacher was
overreached. Thinking Wellborn was about to marry the rich dowager
Allworth, he not only paid all his debts, but supplied his present wants
most liberally, under the delusion "if she prove his, all that is her's
is mine." Having thus done, he finds that Lady Allworth does not marry
Wellborn, but Lord Lovell. In regard to Margaret, fancying she was sure
to marry Lord Lovell, he gives his full consent to her marriage; but
finds she returns from church not Lady Lovell, but Mrs.
Allworth.--Massinger, _A New Way to Pay Old Debts_ (1628).

[Asterism] The prototype of "Sir Giles Overreach" was Sir Giles
Mompesson, a usurer outlawed for his misdeeds.

=Overs= (_John_), a ferryman who used to ferry passengers from Southwark
to the City, and accumulated a c