Robin Hood, a famous outlaw who, with his companions, held court in Sherwood Forest, Nottingham, and whose exploits form the subject of many an old English ballad and tale. He was a robber, but it was the rich he plundered and not the poor, and he was as zealous in the protection of the weak as any Knight of the Round Table; he was an expert in the use of the bow and the quarter-staff (q.v.), and he and his men led a merry life together.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Robespierre, Maximilien * Robins, Benjamin