mself lying before the
cavern's mouth.--R. Southey, _St. Patrick's Purgatory_ (from the
_Fabliaux_ of M. le Grand.[TN-56]

=Owen Meredith=, Robert Bulwer Lytton, afterwards Lord Lytton, son of the
poet and novelist (1831-1892).

=Owl= (_The_), sacred to Minerva, was the emblem of Athens.

Owls hoot in B^[b] and G^[b], or in F^[#] and A^[b].--Rev. G.
White, _Natural History of Selborne_, xlv. (1789).

=Owl a Baker's Daughter= (_The_). Our Lord once went into a baker's shop
to ask for bread. The mistress instantly put a cake in the oven for Him,
but the daughter, thinking it to be too large, reduced it to half the
size. The dough, howover,[TN-57] swelled to an enormous bulk, and the
daughter cried out, "Heugh! heugh! heugh!" and was transformed into an
owl.

Well, God 'ield you! They say the owl was a baker's
daughter.--Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ (1596).

=Ox= (_The Dumb_), St. Thomas Aqui'nas; so named by his fellow-students on
account of his taciturnity (1224-1274).

An ox once spoke as learned men deliver.--Beaumont and Fletcher,
_Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, iii. 1 (1640).

_Ox._ _The black ox hath trod on his foot_, he has married and is
hen-pecked; calamity has befallen him. The black ox was sacrificed to
the infernals, and was consequently held accursed. When Tusser says the
best way to thrive is to get married, the objector says:

Why, then, do folk this proverb put,
"The black ox near trod on thy foot,"
If that way were to thrive?

_Wiving and Thriving_, lvii. (1557).

The black oxe had not trode on his or her foote;
But ere his branch of blesse could reach any roote,
The flowers so faded that in fifteen weekes
A man might copy the change in the cheekes
Both of the poore wretch and his wife.

Heywood (1646).

=Oxford= (_John, earl of_), an exiled Lancastrian. He appears with his son
Arthur as a travelling merchant, under the name of Philipson.

[Asterism] _The son of the merchant Philipson_ is Sir Arthur de Vere.

_The countess of Oxford_, wife of the earl.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of
Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

_Oxford_ (_The young earl of_), in the court of Queen Elizabeth.--Sir W.
Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth).

=Ozair= (2 _syl._), a prophet. One day, riding on an ass by the ruins of
Jerusalem, after its destruction by the Chaldeans, he doubted in his
mind whether God could raise the city up again. Whe