Chapter U to Ulysses of U by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Ulric Son of Count Siegendorf. He rescues Stralenheim from the Oder, but, being informed by his father that the man he had saved is the enemy of their house, he murders him. (Byron: Werner.)
   St. Ulric. Much honoured by fishermen. He died 973 on ashes strewed in the form of a cross upon the floor.

Ulster A long loose overcoat, worn by males and females, and originally made of frieze cloth in Ulster.

Ulster The Red Hand of Ulster. (See under Hand , The open red hand.)

Ulster Badge A sinister hand, erect, open, and couped at the wrist (gules), sometimes borne in a canton, and sometimes on the escutcheon. (See under Hand as above.)

Ulster King of Arms Chief heraldic officer of Ireland. Created by Edward VI. in 1552.

Ultima Thule (See Thule .)

Ultimatum (Latin). A final proposal, which, if not accepted, will be followed by hostile proceedings.

Ultimum Vale (Latin). A finishing stroke, a final coup.

“Atropos, cutting off the thread of his life, gave an ultimum vale to my good fortune.”- The Seven champions of Christeudom, iii. 4.

Ultimus Romanorum So Horace Walpole was preposterously called. (1717- 1797.) (See Last Of The Romans .)
    Carlyle so called Dr. Johnson, but he might, with greater propriety, be termed “the last of the Catos.” (1709-1784.)
   Pope called Congreve “Ultimus Romanorum.” (1670- 1729.) (See Last Of The Romans.)

Ultra Vires Beyond their legitimate powers. Said of a company when exceeding the licence given to it by Act of Parliament. Thus if a company, which had obtained an Act of Parliament to construct a railway from London to Nottingham were to carry its rails to York, it would be acting ultra vires. If the Bank of England were to set up a mint on their premises, it would be acting ultra vires.

Ultramontane Party The ultra-Popish party in the Church of Rome. Ultramontane opinions or tendencies are those which favour the high “Catholic” party. Ultramontane (“beyond the Alps”) means Italy or the Papal States. The term was first used by the French, to distinguish those who look upon the Pope as the fountain of all power in the Church, in contradistinction to the Gallican school, which maintains the right of self-government by national churches. (See Tramontane .)

Ulysses (3 syl.), King of Ithaca, a small rocky island of Greece. He is represented in Homer's Iliad as full of artifices, and, according to Virgil, hit upon the device of the wooden horse, by which Troy was ultimately taken. (The word means The Angry or Wrathful.)
   After the fall of Troy, Ulysses was driven about by tempests for ten years before he reached home, and his adventures form the subject of Homer's other epic, called the Odyssey.
   Ulysses. When Palamedes summoned Ulysses to the Trojan war, he found him in a field ploughing with a team of strange animals, and sowing salt instead of barley. This he did to feign insanity, that he might be excused from the expedition. The incident is employed to show what meagre shifts are sometimes resorted to to shufile out of plain duties.
Ulysses (The). Albert III., Margrave of Brandenburg. He was also called “The Achilles ” (q.v.). (1414-1486.)
   The Ulysses of the Highlands. Sir Evan Cameron, lord of Lochiel, surnamed “The Black.” (Died 1719.) His son Donald was called “The Gentle Lochiel.”