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his steed to a wild forest. Una fills the air with her shrieks, and is rescued by the fauns and satyrs, who attempt to worship her, but, being restrained, pay adoration to her ass. She is delivered from the satyrs and fauns by Sir Satyrane, and is told by Archimago that St. George is dead, but subsequently hears that he is the captive of Orgoglio. She goes to King Arthur for aid, and the king both slays Orgoglio and rescues the knight. Una, now takes St. George to the house of Holiness, where he is carefully nursed, and then leads him to Eden, where their union is consummated. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, bk. i.) (See Lion .)

Una Serranilla [a little mountain song ], by Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana, godfather of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. This song, of European celebrity, was composed on a little girl found by the marquis tending her father's flocks on the hills, and is called The Charming Milk-maiden of Sweet Finojosa.

Unaneled (3 syl.). Unanointed; without extreme unction. (Saxon oell means “oil,” and an-oell to “anoint with oil.”)

“Unhouseled [without the last sacrament], disappointed, unaneled.”

   Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 5.

Uncas the son of Chingachcook; called in French Le Cerf Agile (Deerfoot); introduced into three of Fenimore Cooper's novels- viz. The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, and The Pioncer.

Uncial Letters Letters an inch in size. From the fifth to the ninth century. (Latin uncia, an inch.)

Uncircumcised in Heart and Ears (Acts vii. 51). Obstinately deaf and wilfully obdurate to the preaching of the apostle. Heathenish, and perversely so.

Uncle Don't come the uncle over me. In Latin, “Ne sis patruus mihi ” (Horace: 2 Sat., iii. 88)- i.e. do not overdo your privilege of reproving or castigating me. The Latin notion of a patruus or uncle left guardian was that of a severe catigator and reprover. Similarly, their idea of a step-mother was a woman of stern, unsympathetic nature, who was unjust to her step-children, and was generally disliked.

“Metuentes patruae verbera linguae.”- Horace: 3 Odes. xii. 3.

Uncle Gone to my uncle's. Uncle's is a pun on the Latin word uncus, a hook. Pawnbrokers employed a hook to lift articles pawned before spouts were adopted. “Gone to the uncus ” is exactly tantamount to the more modern phrase “Up the spout.” The pronoun was inserted to carry out the pun. In French, “C'esl chez ma tante. ” At the pawnbroker's.

Uncle Sam (See Sam .)

Uncle Tom A negro slave, noted for his fidelity, piety, and the faithful discharge of all his duties. Being sold, he has to submit to the most revolting cruelties. (Mrs. Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
    This tale was founded on the story of Josiah Henson (1787), told to Mrs. Stowe by Henson himself.

Unco has two meanings: As an adjective it means unknown, strange, unusual; but as an adverb it means very- as unco good, unco glad, etc. The “unco guid” are the pinchbeck saints, too good by half.

“The race of the `unco guid' is not yet quite extinct in Scotland.”- A Daily Journal.

Uncumber (St.), formerly called St. Wylgeforte. “Women changed her name” (says Sir Thomas More) “because they reken that for a pecke of otys she will not faile to uncumber them of their husbondys.” The tradition says that the saint was very beautiful, but, wishing to lead a single life, prayed that she might have a beard, after which she was no more cumbered with lovers. “For a peck of oats,” says Sir Thomas More, “she would provide a horse for an evil housebonde to ride to the Devill upon.”

“If a wife were weary of a husband, she offered oats at Poules ... to St. Uncumber.”- Michael Woode (1554).

Under-current metaphorically means something at work which has an opposite tendency to what is visible or apparent. Thus in the Puritan supremacy there was a strong under-current of loyalty