OREAD 
 
 
   Or'ead (3 syl.), a mountain-nymph. 
Tennyson calls "Maud" an oread, because 
her hall and garden were on a hill 
        I see my Oreild coming down. 
                   Maud, I. xvi. 1 (1855). 
 
   Oredd. Echo is so called. 
 
   Ore'ades (4 syl.) or O'reads (3 syl.), 
mountain-nymphs. 
Ye Cambrian [Welsh] shepherds then, whom 
    these our mountains please, 
And ye our fellow-nymphs, ye light Oreidls. 
             Drayton, Polyolbion, ix. (1612). 
 
  Orel'io, the favorite horse of King 
Roderick, the last of the Goths. 
                     ,Twas Orelio 
On which he iode, Roderick's own battle-horse, 
Who from his master's hand had wont to feed, 
And with a glad docility obey 
His voice familiar. 
         Southey, Roderck, etc., xxv. (1814). 
 
  Ores'tes (3 syl.), son of Agamemnon, 
betrothed to Hermi'on6 (4 syl.), daughter 
of Menela'us (4 syl.), king of Sparta. At 
the downfall of Troy Menelaus promised 
Hermione in marriage to Pyrrhus, king of 
Epirus, but Pyrrhus fell in love with An- 
drom'ach, the widow of Hector, and his 
captive. An embassy, led by Oresths, was 
sent to Epirus to demand that the son of 
AndromachA should be put to death, lest, 
as he grew up, he might seek to avenge 
his father's death. Pyrrhus refused to 
comply. In this embassage Orest~s met 
Hermion6 again, and found her pride and 
jealousy aroused to fury by the slight 
offered her. She goaded Orest~s to avenge 
her insults, and the ambassadors fell on 
Pyrrhus and murdered him.    HermionA, 
when she saw the dead body of the king 
borne along, stabbed herself, and Orestes 
went raving mad.-Ambrose Philips, The 
Distressed Mother (1712). 
 
 
   Orfeo and Heuro'dis, the tale of 
 Orpheus and Eurydick, with the Gothic 
 machinery of elves and fairies. 
   *** Glilok has an opera called Orfeo; the 
libretto, by Calzabigi, based on a dramatic 
piece by Poliziano (1764). 
 
  Orgari'ta, "the orphan of the Frozen 
  Sea," heroine of a drama. (See MARTHA.) 
-Stirling, The Orphan of the Frozen Sea 
(1856). 
 
  Or'gilus, the betrothed lover of Pen- 
the'a, by the consent of her father; but, 
at the death of her father, her brother, 
Ith'ocl~s, compelled her to marry Bass'- 
an~s, whom she hated. Ithocl's was about 
to marry the princess of Sparta, but a 
little before the event was to take place 
Penthea starved herself to death, and 
Orgilus was condemned to death for 
murdering   Ithocles. - John Ford, The 
Broken Beart (1633). 
 
  Orgoglio [Or.gole'.yo], a hideous giant, 
as tall as three men, son of Earth and 
Wind. Finding the Red Cross Knight at 
the fountain of Idleness he beats him with 
a club, and makes him his slave. Una in- 
forms Arthur of it, and Arthur liberates 
the knight and slays the giant (Rev. xiii. 
5, 7, with Dan. vii. 21, 22).-Spenser, 
Faury Queen, i. (1590). 
  ** Arthur first cut off Orgoglio's left 
arm, i. e. Bohemia was cut off first from 
the Church of Rome; then he cut off the 
giant's right leg, i. e. England. 
 
  Orgon, brother-in-law of Tartuffe (2 
syl.). His credulity and faith in Tartuffe, 
like that of his mother, can scarcely be 
shaken even by the evidence of his senses. 
He hopes against hope, and fights every 
inch of ground in defence of the religious. 
hypocrite.-Moli6re, Tartffe (1664). 
 
 
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