=Urban= (_Sylvānus_), the hypothetical editor of _The Gentleman’s Magazine_. =Urbané=, hero of a religious story bearing the title of _Urbané and His Friends_, by Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (1863). =Urchin=, a hedgehog, a mischievous little fellow, a dwarf, an imp. We’ll dress like urchins. Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor_, act iv. sc. 4 (1596). =Ureus=, the Egyptian snake, crowned with a mitre, and typical of heaven. =Urfried= (_Dame_), an old sibyl at Torquilstone Castle; _alias_ Ulrica, daughter of the late thane of Torquilstone.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Urgan=, a human child stolen by the king of the fairies, and brought up in elf-land. He was sent to lay on Lord Richard the “curse of the sleepless eye,” for killing his wife’s brother. Then said the dwarf to Alice Brand (the wife of Lord Richard), “if any woman will sign my brow thrice with a cross, I shall resume my proper form.” Alice signed him thrice, and Urgan became at once “the fairest knight in all Scotland,” and Alice recognized in him her own brother, Ethert.--Sir W. Scott, _Lady of the Lake_, iv. 12 (1810). =Urganda=, a potent fairy in the _Amădis de Gaul_ and other romances of the Carlovingian cycle. This Urganda seemed to be aware of her own importance.--Smollett. =Ur´gel=, one of Charlemagne’s paladins, famous for his enormous strength. =U´riel= (3 _syl._), or =Israfil=, the angel who is to sound the resurrection trumpet.--_Al Korân._ _Uriel_, one of the seven great spirits, whose station was in the sun. The word means “God’s light” (see _2 Esdras_ iv., v., x. 28). The archangel Uriel, one of the seven Who, in God’s presence, nearest to his throne, Stand ready at command. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iii. 648, etc. (1665). ⁂ Longfellow calls him “the minister of Mars,” and says that he inspires man with “fortitude to bear the brunt and suffering of life.”--_The Golden Legend_, iii. (1851). =U´rien=, the foster-father of Prince Madoc. He followed the prince to his settlement in North America, south of the Missouri (twelfth century).--Southey, _Madoc_ (1805). =Urim=, in _Garth’s Dispensary_, is designed for Dr. Atterbury. Urim was civil and not void of sense, Had humor and courteous confidence, ... Constant at feasts, and each decorum knew, And soon as the dessert appeared, withdrew. _The Dispensary_, i. (1699). =Urra´ca=, sister of Sancho II. of Castile, and queen of Zamōra.--_Poema del Cid Campeador_ (1128).