=Oracle of the Holy Bottle= (_The_), an oracle sought for by Rabelais, to solve the knotty point “whether Panurge (2 _syl._) should marry or not.” The question had been put to sibyl and poet, monk and fool, philosopher and witch, but none could answer it. The oracle was ultimately found in Lantern-land. This, of course, is a satire on the celibacy of the clergy and the withholding of the cup from the laity. Shall the clergy marry or not?--that was the moot point; and the “Bottle of Tent Wine,” or the clergy, who kept the bottle to themselves, alone could solve it. The oracle and priestess of the bottle were both called _Bacbuc_ (Hebrew for “bottle”).--Rabelais, _Pantag´ruel_, iv., v. (1545). =Oracle= (_Sir_), name used in Merchant of Venice to express conceited, pugnacious man. ... I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!”[TN-49] =Orange= (_Prince of_), a title given to the heir-apparent of the king of Holland. “Orange” is a petty principality in the territory of Avignon, in the possession of the Nassau family. =Orania=, the lady-love of Am´adis of Gaul.--Lobeira, _Amadis of Gaul_ (fourteenth century). =Orator Henley=, the Rev. John Henley, who for about thirty years delivered lectures on theological, political, and literary subjects (1692-1756). ⁂ Hogarth has introduced him into several of his pictures; and Pope says of him: Imbround with native bronze, lo! Henley stands, Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands, How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung!... Oh, great restorer of the good old stage, Preacher at once and zany of thy age! Oh, worthy thou of Egypt’s wise abodes; A decent priest where monkeys were the gods! _The Dunciad_ (1742). =Orator Hunt=, the great demagogue in the time of the Wellington and Peel administration. Henry Hunt, M.P., used to wear a gray hat, and these hats were for the time a badge of democratic principles, and called “radical hats” (1773-1835). =Orbaneja=, the painter of Ube´da, who painted so preposterously that he inscribed under his objects what he meant them for. Orbaneja would paint a cock so wretchedly designed that he was obliged to inscribe under it, “This is a cock.”--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II. i. 3 (1615). =Orbilius=, the schoolmaster who taught Horace. The poet calls him “the flogger” (_plagōsus_).--_Ep._ ii. 71. ⁂ _The Orbilian Stick_ is a birch rod or cane. =Ordigale=, the otter in the beast-epic of _Reynard the Fox_, i. (1498). =Ordovi´ces= (4 _syl._), people of Ordovicia, that is, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Merionetshire, Montgomeryshire, Carnarvonshire and Anglesey. (In Latin the _i_ is short: _Ordovĭcês_.) The Ordovīces now which North Wales people be. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xvi. (1613). =Or´dovies= (3 _syl._), the inhabitants of North Wales. (In Latin North Wales is called _Ordovic´ia_.)