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Osbaldistone

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Nine of the characters in Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy bear this name. There are (1) the London merchant and Sir Hildebrand, the heads of two families; (2) the son of the merchant is Francis, the pretendu of Diana Vernon; (3) the “distinguished” offspring of the brother are Percival the sot, Thorncliffe the bully, John the gamekeeper, Richard the horse-jockey, Wilfred the fool, and Rashleigh the scholar, by far the worst of all. This last worthy is slain by Rob Roy, and dies cursing his cousin Frank, whom he had injured in every way he could contrive.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Orrery
Orsin
Orsini (Maffio)
Orson
Orthodox Sunday
Orts
Ortus
Ortwine
Orvietan
Os Sacrum
Osbaldistone
Oseway (Dame)
Osiris (in Egyptian mythology)
Osmand
Osnaburg
Osprey or Ospray (a corruption of Latin ossifragus, the bone-breaker)
Ossa
Osseo
Ossian
Ostend Manifesto
Oster-Monath