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.)
Beneath his [Agricola’s] fatal sword the Ordovies to fall
(Inhabiting the west), those people last of all
... withstood.
Drayton, Polyolbion, viii. (1612).
Or´ead (3 syl.), a mountain-nymph. Tennyson calls “Maud” an oread, because her hall and garden were on a hill.
I see my Oreäd coming down.
Maud, I. xvi. 1 (1855).
Oreäd. Echo is so called.
Ore´ades (4 syl.) or O´reads (3 syl.), mountain-nymphs.
Ye Cambrian [Welsh] shepherds then, whom these our mountains please,
And ye our fellow-nymphs, ye light Oreädês.
Drayton, Polyolbion, ix. (1612).
Orel´io, the favorite horse of King Roderick, the last of the Goths.