_Al'ice_ [GRAY], called "Old Alice Gray," a quondam tenant of the lord of Ravenswood. Lucy Ashton visits her after the funeral of the old lord.--Sir W. Scott, _Bride of Lammermoor_ (time, William III.). _Alice Munro_, one of the sisters taken captive by Indians in Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_ (1821). ALICHI'NO. a devil in Dante's _Inferno_. ALICIA gave her heart to Mosby, but married Arden for his position. As a wife, she played falsely with her husband, and even joined Mosby in a plot to murder him. Vacillating between love for Mosby and respect for Arden, she repents, and goes on sinning; wishes to get disentangled, but is overmastered by Mosby's stronger will. Alicia's passions impel her to evil, but her judgment accuses her and prompts her to the right course. She halts, and parleys with sin, like Balaam, and of course is lost.--Anon., _Arden of Feversham_ (1592). _Alic'ia_, "a laughing, toying, wheedling, whimpering she," who once held lord Hastings under her distaff, but her annoying jealousy, "vexatious days, and jarring, joyless nights," drove him away from her. Being jealous of Jane Shore, she accused her to the duke of Gloster of alluring lord Hastings from his allegiance, and the lord protector soon trumped up a charge against both; the lord chamberlain he ordered to execution for treason, and Jane Shore he persecuted for witchcraft. Alicia goes raving mad.--Rowe, _Jane Shore_ (1713). _Alic'ia_ (_The lady_), daughter of lord Waldemar Fitzurse.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). ALICK [POLWORTH], one of the servants of Waverley.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). ALIFAN'FARON, emperor of the island Trap'oban, a Mahometan, the suitor of Pentap'olin's daughter, a Christian. Pentapolin refused to sanction this alliance, and the emperor raised a vast army to enforce his suit. This is don Quixote's solution of two flocks of sheep coming in opposite directions, which he told Sancho were the armies of Alifanfaron and Pentapolin.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 4 (1605). Ajax the Greater had a similar encounter. (See AJAX.) ALIN'DA, daughter of Alphonso, an irascible old lord of Sego'via.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Pilgrim_ (1621). (_Alinda_ is the name assumed by young Archas when he dresses in woman's attire. This young man is the son of general Archas, "the loyal subject" of the great duke of Moscovia, in the drama by Beaumont and Fletcher, called _The Loyal Subject_, 1618.) ALIPRANDO, a Christian knight, who discovered the armor of Rinaldo, and took it to Godfrey. Both inferred that Rinaldo had been slain, but were mistaken.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575).