Tennyson, The Princess, i. (1830).
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.