ote of the North= (_The_), Charles XII. of Sweden; sometimes called
"The Madman" (1682, 1697-1718).

=Quodling= (_The Rev. Mr._), chaplain to the duke of Buckingham.--Sir W.
Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.).

=Quos Ego--=, a threat intended but withheld; a sentence broken off.
E[)o]lus, angry with the winds and storms which had thrown the sea into
commotion without his sanction, was going to say he would punish them
severely for this act of insubordination; but having uttered the first
two words, "Whom I----," he says no more, but proceeds to the business
in hand.--Virgil, _AEneid_, i.

"Next Monday," said he, "you will be a 'substance,' and then----;"
with which _quos ego_ he went to the next boy.--Dasent, _Half a
Life_ (1850).

=Quo'tem= (_Caleb_), a parish clerk or Jack-of-all-trades.--G. Colman,
_The Review, or The Ways of Windsor_.

I resolved like Caleb Quotem, to have a place at the
review.--Washington Irving.

=R= Neither Demosth[)e]n[^e]s nor Aristotle could pronounce the letter
_r_.

_R_ (_rogue_), vagabonds, etc., who were branded on the left shoulder
with this letter.

They ... may be burned with a hot burning iron, of the breadth of a
shilling, with a great Roman R on the left shoulder, which letter
shall remain as a mark of a rogue.--Pyrnne,[TN-115] _Histriomastix_,
or _The Player's Scourge_.

If I escape the halter with the letter R
Printed upon it.

Massinger, _A New Way to Pay Old Debts_, iv. 2 (1629).

=Rab'agas=, an advocate and editor of a journal called the _Carmagnole_.
At the same office was published another radical paper, called the
_Crapaud Volant_. Rabagas lived in the kingdom of Monaco, and was a
demagogue leader of the deepest red; but was won over to the king's
party by the tact of an American lady, who got him an invitation to dine
at the palace, and made him chief minister of state. From this moment he
became the most strenuous opponent of the "liberal" party.--M. Sardou,
_Rabagas_ (1872).

=Rabbi Jehosha=, wise teacher, whose good words are recorded in James
Russell Lowell's poem "_What Rabbi Jehosha Said_."

=Rabbi Abron of Trent=, a fictitious sage, and most wonderful linguist.
"He knew the nature of all manner of herbs, beasts and minerals."--_Reynard
the Fox_, xii. (1498).

=Rabelais= (_The English_). Dean Swift was so called by Voltaire
(1667-1745).

Sterne (1713-1768) a