ADRIA'NO DE ARMA'DO _(Don)_, a pompous, fantastical Spaniard, a military braggart in a state of peace, as Parolles (3 _syl_.) was in war. Boastful but poor; a coiner of words, but very ignorant; solemnly grave, but ridiculously awkward; majestical in gait, but of very low propensities.--Shakespeare, _Love's Labour Lost_ (1594). (Said to be designed for John Florio, surnamed "The Resolute," a philologist. Holofernes, the pedantic schoolmaster, in the same play, is also meant in ridicule of the same lexicographer.) You may remember, scarce five years are past Since in your brigantine you sailed to see The Adriatic wedded to our duke. T. Otway, _Venice Preserved_, i. 1 (1682). AD'RIEL, in Dryden's _Absalom and Achitophel_, the earl of Mulgrave, a royalist. Sharp-judging Adriel, the Muses' friend; Himself a muse. In sanhedrim's debate True to his prince, but not a slave to state; Whom David's love with honours did adorn, That from his disobedient son were torn. Part i. (John Sheffield, earl of Mulgrave (1649-1721) wrote an _Essay on Poetry_.) ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR, French actress, said to have been poisoned by flowers sent to her by a rival. Died in 1730. AE'ACUS, king of Oeno'pia, a man of such integrity and piety, that he was made at death one of the three judges of hell. The other two were Minos and Rhadaman'thus. AEGE'ON a huge monster with 100 arms and 50 heads, who with his brothers, Cottus and Gygês, conquered the Titans by hurling at them 300 rocks at once. Homer says _men_ call him "Aege'on," but by the _gods_ he is called Bri'areus (3 _syl_.). Briáreos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held. --Milton, _Paradise Lost_, I. 199. _Aege'on_, a merchant of Syracuse, in Shakespeare's _Comedy of Errors_ (1593). AEMYLIA, a lady of high degree, in love with Am'yas, a squire of inferior rank. Going to meet her lover at a trysting-place, she was caught up by a hideous monster, and thrust into his den for future food. Belphoebê (3 _syl_.) slew "the caitiff" and released the maid (canto vii.). Prince Arthur, having slain Corflambo, released Amyas from the durance of Paea'na, Corflambo's daughter, and brought the lovers together "in peace and joyous blis" (canto ix.).--Spencer, _Faëry Queen_, iv. (1596). AEMIL'IA, wife of Aege'on the Syracusian merchant, and mother of the twins called Antiph'olus. When the boys were shipwrecked, she was parted from them and taken to Ephesus. Here she entered a convent, and rose to be the abbess. Without her knowing it, one of her twins also settled in Ephesus, and rose to be one of its greatest and richest citizens. The other son and her husband Ægeon both set foot in Ephesus the same day without the knowledge of each other, and all met together in the duke's court, when the story of their lives was told, and they became again united to each other.--Shakespeare, _Comedy of Errors_ (1593).