pendragon

• Her father was Uther the pendragon, and her mother Ygerna, widow of Gorloďs. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• His father was Uther the pendragon, and his mother Ygernę (3 syl_. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• 5. See DIANORA Aurelius_, elder brother of Uther the pendragon, and uncle of Arthur, but he died before the hero was born Even sicke of a flixe [_ill of the flux_] as he was, he caused himself to be carried forth on a litter; with whose presence the people were so encouraged, that encountering with the Saxons they wan the victorie.--Holinshed, History of Scotland_, 99 once I read That stout Pendragon on his litter sick Came to the field, and vanquishčd his foes Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI._, act iii. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• Hee also maketh mention of one Moigne, brother to Aurelius and Vter-pendragon, Duke of Cornwall, & gouerner of the Realme, vnder the Emperour Honorius 443.] —  The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue
• The whole stock of a great bookseller was, in his eyes, a cheap exchange for a shred of parchment, containing half a homily written by St. Patrick. He would have gratefully given all his patrimonial domains to one who should inform him what pendragon or druid it was who set up the first stone on Salisbury plain This spirit, as you may readily suppose, being seconded by great wealth and long life, contributed to form a very large collection of venerable lumber, which, though beyond all price to the collector himself, is of no value to his heiress but so far as it is marketable. —  Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms