Words / 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge / O / Orcus
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Orcus (i.e. place of confinement), another name for Hades, or the “World of the Dead”; also of the god of the nether world.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Orcus in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable