It is frequently mentioned in ancient inventories:—
“1391. Une manche d’or d’un essay de lincourne pour attoucher aux viandes de Monseigneur le Dauphin.” Comptes Royaux, quoted by Mrs. Bury Palliser.
In allusion to this property, Alviano, the champion of the Orsini family, adopted as his device a unicorn at a fountain surrounded by snakes, toads, and other reptiles, and stirring up the water with its horn before he drinks, with the motto, “I expel poisons.”
Union Cloths. Fabrics of wool with wefts of cotton.
Fig. 675. Present Union Jack.
Union Jack. The National Ensign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain—exhibiting the Union of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew combined—first displayed in the reign of James I., 1606. The flag as it is now used, dates from the beginning of this century. It is borne on a shield, charged in pretence upon the escutcheon of the Duke of Wellington.
Upapitha, Hind. The pedestal of the Hindoo orders, which included, besides the pedestal properly so called, the base (athisthama), the pillar or shaft (stambu) which was either square or polygonal and only rounded at the upper part near the capital or cushion which took its place, and lastly the entablature (prastura).
Uræus, Egyp. A transcription of the Egyptian word ârâ or the asp hajé, a kind of serpent called by the Greeks basilicon (βασιλικόν). The uræus as an emblem of the sovereign power forms the distinctive ornament in the head-dress of the Egyptian kings.
