The merit of _The Antiquary_ as a novel rests on the inimitable delineation of Oldbuck, that model of black-letter and Roman-camp antiquaries, whose oddities and conversation are rich and racy as any of the old crusted port that John of the Girnel might have held in his monastic cellars.--Chambers, _English Literature_, ii. 586. =Oldcastle= (_Sir John_), a drama by Anthony Munday (1600). This play appeared with the name of Shakespeare on the title-page. =Old Sledge.= Game of cards that, played at the “Settlemint”--(a group of log huts) among the Tennessee mountains, has a fatal fascination for Josiah Tait, who loses to a former suitor of the woman he has married everything he owns. The property is restored through the unexpected magnanimity of the winner, and the playing of Old Sledge becomes a lost art at the “Settlemint.”--Charles Egbert Craddock, _In the Tennessee Mountains_ (1884). =Oldworth=, of Oldworth Oaks, a wealthy squire, liberally educated, very hospitable, benevolent, humorous, and whimsical. He brings up Maria, “the maid of the Oaks” as his ward, but she is his daughter and heiress.--J Burgoyne, _The Maid of the Oaks_ (1779). =Ole ’Stracted=, a superannuated negro, formerly a slave, whose fancy is to wait in a hut on the old plantation for his master’s return. He was “sold South” forty years before, and his young master promised to go down next summer and buy him back. The poor fellow has saved in these years twelve hundred dollars to pay for his freedom. Unknown to himself or to them, his son and daughter-in-law minister to him in his last moments. He has put on his clean shirt, sure that “young marster” will come to-day. Rising to his feet he cries out: “Heah de one you lookin’ for, Marster! Mymy--heah’s Little Ephrum!” And with a smile on his face he sank back into his son’s arms.--Thomas Nelson Page, _In Ole Virginia_ (1887). =Olifant=, the horn of Roland or Orlando. This horn and the sword “Durinda´na” were buried with the hero. Turpin tells us in his _Chronicle_ that Charlemagne heard the blare of this horn at a distance of eight miles. _Olifant_ (_Basil_), a kinsman of Lady Margaret Bellenden, of the Tower of Tillietudlem.--Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.). =Olifaunt= (_Lord Nigel_), of Glenvarloch. On going to court to present a petition to James I. he aroused the dislike of the duke of Buckingham. Lord Dalgarno gave him the cut direct, and Nigel struck him, but was obliged to seek refuge in Alsatia. After various adventures he married Margaret Ramsay, the watch-maker’s daughter, and obtained the title-deeds of his estates.--Sir W. Scott, _The Fortunes of Nigel_ (time, James I.). =Olim´pia=, the wife of Bireno, uncompromising in love, and relentless in hate.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).