AR’GENTIN (Le sieur d’), one of the officers of the duke of Burgundy.—­Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geiersiein (time, Edward IV.).

ARGE’O, baron of Servia and husband of Gabrina. (See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.)—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

ARGES’TES (3 syl.), the west wind.

  Winged Argestes, faire Aurora’s sonne,
  Licensed that day to leave his dungeon,
  Meekly attended.

Wm. Browne, Britannia’s Pastorals, ii. 5 (1613).

Arges’tes (3 syl.), the north-east wind; Cae’cias, the north-west; Bo’reas, the full north.

  Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud
  ... rend the woods, and seas upturn.

Milton, Paradise Lost, x. 699, etc. (1665).

AR’GILLAN, a haughty, turbulent knight, born on the banks of the Trent.  He induced the Latians to revolt, was arrested, made his escape, but was ultimately slain in battle by Solyman.—­Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, viii. ix. (1575).

ARGON AND RURO, the two sons of Annir, king of Inis-thona, an island of Scandinavia.  Cor’malo, a neighboring chief, came to the island, and asked for the honor of a tournament.  Argon granted the request, and overthrew him, and this so vexed Cormalo that during a hunt he shot both the brothers with his bow.  Their dog Runo, running to the hall, howled so as to attract attention, and Annir, following the hound, found his two sons both dead.  On his return he discovered that Cormalo had run off with his daughter.  Oscar, son of Ossian, slew Cormalo in fight, and restored the daughter to her father.—­Ossian ("The War of Inis-thona").

ARGONAUTS, heroes and demi-gods, who sailed to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece, guarded by a sleepless dragon.  Jason was their leader.

Argonauts (The).  Title applied to adventurers who, in 1849, sought gold in California.  Bret Harte has seized upon the name as the theme of tales and ballads of the “Forty-niners.”

AR’GUS, the turf-writer, was Irwin Willes, who died in 1871.

ARGYLE (Mac Callum More, duke of), in the reign of George I.—­Sir W. Scott, Rob Roy (1818).

Mac Callum More, marquis of Argyle, in the reign of Charles I., was commander of the parliamentary forces, and is called “Gillespie Grumach;” he disguises himself, and assumes the name of Murdoch Campbell.—­Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose (1819).

(Duke and duchess of Argyle are introduced also in the Heart of Midlothian, by Sir W. Scott, 1818.)

ARIAD’NE (4 syl.), daughter of Minos king of Crete.  She gave Theseus a clew of thread to guide him out of the Cretan labyrinth.  Theseus married his deliverer, but when he arrived at Naxos (Dia) forsook her, and she hung herself.

Surely it is an Ariadne....  There is dawning womanhood in every line; but she knows nothing of Naxos.—­Ouida, Ariadne, i. 1.