Lancelot, Sir Lancelot

(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere

— Princeton's WordNet

Lancelot, Sir Lancelot

(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere

— Princeton's WordNet

Excalibur

the name of King Arthur's mythical sword

— Webster Dictionary

Pigovian

related to Arthur Pigou.

— Wiktionary

Arty

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur.

— Wiktionary

Q

The pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

— Wiktionary

Art

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur.

— Wiktionary

Artie

A diminutive of the male given name Arthur.

— Wiktionary

Arfie

A short form of the male given name Arthur.

— Wiktionary

Guinevere

In Arthurian legend, the wife of King Arthur.

— Wiktionary

Morgan le Fay

(in Arthurian legend) The half-sister of King Arthur

— Wiktionary

Excalibur

A legendary sword of King Arthur, attributed with magical properties.

— Wiktionary

Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.

— Wiktionary

Mordred

The illegitimate son of King Arthur, who ultimately killed him in battle.

— Wiktionary

Excalibur

the legendary sword of King Arthur

— Princeton's WordNet

Arthurian legend

the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot

— Princeton's WordNet

Clarkean

Of or pertaining to Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008), British science fiction writer and futurist.

— Wiktionary

Arthurian

of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

— Princeton's WordNet

Round Table, King Arthur's Round Table

(legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights

— Princeton's WordNet

Knight of the Round Table

in the Arthurian legend, a knight of King Arthur's court

— Princeton's WordNet

Round Table, King Arthur's Round Table

(legend) the circular table for King Arthur and his knights

— Princeton's WordNet

Merlin

(Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor

— Princeton's WordNet

Gawain, Sir Gawain

(Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table

— Princeton's WordNet

Gawain, Sir Gawain

(Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table

— Princeton's WordNet

Camlan

(Arthurian legend) the battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded

— Princeton's WordNet

Camelot

The stronghold of King Arthur in the Arthurian legend.

— Wiktionary

Morgan le Fay

(Arthurian legend) a wicked enchantress who was the half sister and enemy of King Arthur

— Princeton's WordNet

Chopsticks

A simple waltz, written in 1877 by Arthur de Lulli, that serves as a two-finger exercise for beginner piano players.

— Wiktionary

Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert

a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

— Princeton's WordNet

Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory

English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)

— Princeton's WordNet

Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert

a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

— Princeton's WordNet

Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert

a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

— Princeton's WordNet

Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory

English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)

— Princeton's WordNet

Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory

English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)

— Princeton's WordNet

Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert

a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

— Princeton's WordNet

Gilbert, William Gilbert, William S. Gilbert, William Schwenk Gilbert, Sir William Gilbert

a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)

— Princeton's WordNet

Doylean

Of or pertaining to Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Scottish novelist and poet, or his writings.

— Wiktionary

Siege Perilous

the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved for the knight who would find the Holy Grail; it was fatal for anyone else to sit in it

— Princeton's WordNet

Logres

The name of King Arthur's realm in the Matter of Britain.

— Wiktionary

Camelot

(Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom; according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty reigned there

— Princeton's WordNet

Arthurian

Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of the Britons, and his court at Camelot.

— Wiktionary

Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War

a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur

— Princeton's WordNet

Chino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War

a war between China and Japan (1894 and 1895) over the control of the Korean Peninsula; China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur

— Princeton's WordNet

Guinevere, Guenevere

(Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table

— Princeton's WordNet

Guinevere, Guenevere

(Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table

— Princeton's WordNet

Avalon

(in Arturian legend) An island, represented as an earthly paradise in the western seas, to which King Arthur and other heroes were carried at death.

— Wiktionary

Sherlock Holmes

A series of novels by Arthur Conan Doyle about a male consulting detective with astute logical reasoning and professional forensic skills, and related media based on the books, such as movies.

— Wiktionary

Guinness

A brand of dark stout beer from Ireland, one of the most widely recognised brands of beer in the world, named for Arthur Guinness who first brewed it.

— Wiktionary

Cycle

the circle of subjects connected with the exploits of the hero or heroes of some particular period which have served as a popular theme for poetry, as the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and that of Charlemagne and his paladins

— Webster Dictionary

Watson

Any character who performs as catalyst for the protagonist detective's mental processes in a mystery story; a consciousness that's privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. After William L. DeAndrea, discussing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

— Wiktionary

Romance

a species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like

— Webster Dictionary

Guinevere

the wife of King Arthur; the most beautiful of women, conceived a guilty passion for Lancelot, one of Arthur's knights, and married Modred, her husband's nephew, in the latter's absence on an expedition against the Romans, on hearing of which he returned, met Modred on the field of battle, whom he slew, fell mortally wounded himself, while she escaped to a nunnery. Tennyson gives a different version in his "Idylls."

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Assaye`

a small town 46 m. NE. of Aurungabad, where Sir Arthur Wellesley gained a victory over the Mahrattas in 1803.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Modred, Sir

a treacherous knight, the rebellious nephew of King Arthur, whose wife he seduced; was slain in battle, and buried in Avalon.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Gawain, Sir

one of the Knights of the Round Table, King Arthur's nephew; celebrated for his courtesy and physical strength.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Camelot

a place in Somerset, where, it is presumed, King Arthur held his court, and where entrenchments of an old town are still to be seen.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Kay, Sir

a rude and boastful Knight of the Round Table, foster-brother of King Arthur, who from his braggart ways often made himself the butt of the whole court.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Gilbert, William Schwenck

barrister, notable as a play-writer and as the author of the librettos of a series of well-known popular comic operas set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; b. 1836.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur's knights, so called from the round table at which they sat, so that when seated there might seem no precedency, numbered popularly at twelve, though reckoned by some at forty.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Talavera de la Reina

a picturesque old Spanish town on the Tagus, situated amid vineyards, 75 m. SE. of Madrid; scene of a great victory under Sir Arthur Wellesley over a French army commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, Marshals Jourdan and Victor, 27th July 1809.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Round Table, The

the name given to the knighthood of King Arthur: a larger, from including as many as 150 knights; and a smaller, from including only 12 of the highest order.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Hubert de Burgh

Earl of Kent, chief justiciary of England under King John and Henry III.; had charge of Prince Arthur, but refused to put him to death; was present at Runnymede at the signing of Magna Charta; d. 1234.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Philip II.

Philip-Augustus, king of France, shared the throne with his father, Louis VII., from 1179, and succeeded him as sole ruler in 1180; marrying Isabella of Hainault, he united the Capet and Carlovingian houses; his grand aim was to secure to himself some of the English possessions in France; his alliance with Richard of England in the third crusade ended in a quarrel; returning to France he broke his oath to Richard by bargaining with John for portions of the coveted territory; an exhausting war lasted till 1119; on Richard's death Philip supported Arthur against John in his claim to Anjou, Maine, and Touraine; after Arthur's murder, the capture of Château Gaillard in 1204 gave him possession of these three provinces with Normandy and part of Poitou; the victory of Bouvines 1214 secured his throne, and the rest of his reign was spent in internal reforms and the beautifying of Paris (1165-1223).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Enid

the daughter of Yniol and the wife of Geraint; one of the ladies of the court of King Arthur; celebrated for her steadfast conjugal affection, the story regarding whom is given in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King."

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Pechili, Gulf of

a great land-locked bay opening in the NW. of the Yellow Sea, receives the waters of the Hoang-ho, and on opposite tongues of land at the mouth of it stand Port Arthur and Wei-hai-Wei.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Görgei, Arthur

a Hungarian patriot; at the age of 27 entered the army, and designed to devote himself to the study of chemistry and the administration of his estate; but on the outbreak of the Revolution in 1848 he joined the revolutionists; crushed the Croatians at Ozora; at the head of a patriot army faced the Austrians under Windischgrätz on the western frontier, and despite a temporary repulse, succeeded in asserting the supremacy of the Hungarian cause in a series of victories; Russian assistance accorded to Austria, however, changed the fortune of war; Kossuth resigned, and Görgei became dictator; but hopeless of success, he immediately negotiated a peace with the Russians; in 1851 he published a vindication of his policy and surrender, and in 1885 was exonerated by his compatriots from the charges of treachery brought against him by Kossuth; b. 1818.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Pinero, Arthur Wing

dramatic author, born in London; bred to law, took to the stage and the writing of plays, of which he has produced a goodly number; collaborated with Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr. Comyns Carr in a romantic musical drama entitled "The Beauty Stone"; b. 1855.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Malory, Sir Thomas

flourished in the 15th century; was the author of "Morte d'Arthur," being a translation in prose of a labyrinthine selection of Arthurian legends, which was finished in the ninth year of Edward IV., and printed fifteen years after by Caxton "with all care."

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Monmouth, Geoffrey

a Welsh priest of the 12th century, compiler of what he called a "History of the Early Kings of Britain," from that of Brut, through the story of King Arthur and others, such as King Lear, down to that of Cadwallo, a Welsh king, who died in 689.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Elaine

a lady of the court of King Arthur in love with Lancelot, and whose story is related by Malory in his "History" and by Tennyson in his "Idylls of the King."

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Excalibur

the magic sword of King Arthur, which only he could unsheathe and wield. When he was about to die he requested a knight to throw it into a lake close by, who with some reluctance threw it, when a hand reached out to seize it, flourished it round three times, and then drew it under the water for good.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Callcott, John Wall

an eminent musical composer, born at Kensington; was a pupil of Händel's, and is celebrated for his glee compositions (1766-1821). Sir Augustus Wall, landscape painter, brother; was knighted for his eminent skill as an artist (1779-1841). Lady Maria, wife of Sir Augustus, author of "Little Arthur's History of England" (1779-1842).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Wei-hai-wei

a city in a deep bay on the Shantung promontory, China, 40 m. E. of Chefoo, and nearly opposite Port Arthur, which is situated on the northern side of the entrance to the Gulf of Pechili; was leased to Great Britain in 1898, along with the islands in the bay and a belt of land along the coast; its harbour is well sheltered, and accommodates a large number of vessels.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Merlin

a legendary Welsh prophet and magician, child of a wizard and a princess, who lived in the 5th century, and was subsequently a prominent personage at King Arthur's' court; prophecies attributed to him existed as far back as the 14th century; Tennyson represents him as bewitched by Vivian; legend also tells of a Clydesdale Merlin of the 6th century; his prophecies, published in 1615, include the former; both legends are based on Armorican materials.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Geoffrey of Monmouth

a celebrated chronicler and ecclesiastic of the 12th century, born in Monmouth, where he was educated in a Benedictine monastery; in 1152 he was made bishop of St. Asaph; his Latin "Chronicon sive Historia Britonum" contains a circumstantial account of British history compiled from Gildas, Nennius, and other early chroniclers, interwoven with current legends and pieced together with additions from his own fertile imagination, the whole professing to be a translation of a chronicle found in Brittany; this remarkable history is the source of the stories of King Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin, and of Arthur and his knights as they have since taken shape in English literature; d. about 1154.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

John

king of England from 1199 to 1216, was clever and vivacious, but the most vicious, profane, false, short-sighted, tyrannical, and unscrupulous of English monarchs; the son of Henry II., he married Hawisa of Gloucester, and succeeded his brother Richard I., being Richard's nominee, and the tacitly elect of the people; his nephew, Arthur, claimed the French dominions, and was supported by the French king, Philip; in 1200 he divorced Hawisa, and married Isabel of Angoulême, a child-heiress; this provoked the French barons; in the war that ensued Arthur was captured, and subsequently murdered either by John himself or by his orders; Philip invaded Normandy, and with the fall of the Château-Gaillard in 1204, most of the French possessions were lost to the English crown; then followed John's quarrel with Pope Innocent III. over the election of an archbishop of Canterbury; the Pope consecrated Stephen Langton; John refused to receive him; in 1208 the kingdom was placed under an interdict, and next year the king was excommunicated; John on his side confiscated Church property, exiled the bishops, exacted homage of William of Scotland, and put down risings in Ireland and Wales; but a bull, deposing him and absolving his vassals from allegiance, forced him to submit, and he resigned his crown to the Pope's envoy in 1213; this exaction on Innocent's part initiated the opposition to Rome which culminated in the English Reformation; the rest of the reign was a struggle between the king, relying on his suzerain the Pope, and the people, barons, and clergy, for the first time on one side; war broke out; the king was forced to sign Magna Charta at Runnymede in 1215, but the Pope annulled the Charter; the barons appealed for help to the Dauphin, and were prosecuting the war when John died at Newark (1167-1216).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Catharine of Aragon

fourth daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and wife of Henry VIII., her brother-in-law as widow of Arthur, from whom, and at whose instance, after 18 years of married life, and after giving birth to five children, she was divorced on the plea that, as she had been his brother's wife before, it was not lawful for him to have her; after her divorce she remained in the country, led an austere religious life, and died broken-hearted. The refusal of the Pope to sanction this divorce led to the final rupture of the English Church from the Church of Rome, and the emancipation of the nation from priestly tyranny (1483-1536).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

United States, Presidents of

George Washington (1789-1797); John Adams (1797-1801); Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809); James Maddison (1809-1817); James Munroe (1817-1825); John Quincy Adams (1825-1829); Andrew Jackson (1829-1837); Martin Van Buren (1837-1841); John Tyler (1841-1845); John K. Polk (1845-1849); Zachary Taylor (1849-1850); Millard Fillmore (1850-1853); Franklin Pierce (1853-1857); James Buchanan (1857-1861); Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865); Andrew Johnson (1865-1869); Ulysses D. Grant (1869-1877); Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881); James A. Garfield (1881); Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885); Grover Cleveland (1885-1889); Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893); Grover Cleveland (1893-1897); William McKinley (1897-1901); Theodore Roosevelt (1901).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Sindia

the hereditary title of the Mahratta dynasty in Gwalior, Central India, founded in 1738 by Ranojee Sindia, who rose from being slipper-bearer to the position of hereditary prime minister of the Mahrattas; these princes, both singly and in combination with other Mahratta powers, offered determined resistance to the British, but in 1803 the confederated Mahratta power was broken by Sir Arthur Wellesley, and a large portion of their territory passed into British hands. Gwalior having been restored (1805), and retaken in 1844, the Sindia dynasty was reinstated under a more stringent treaty, and Boji Rao Sindia proved faithful during the Mutiny, receiving various marks of good-will from the British; was succeeded by his adopted son, a child of six, in 1886.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

magic

1. adj. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explain; compare automagically and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” “TTY echoing is controlled by a large number of magic bits.” “This routine magically computes the parity of an 8-bit byte in three instructions.”

2. adj. Characteristic of something that works although no one really understands why (this is especially called black magic).

3. n. [Stanford] A feature not generally publicized that allows something otherwise impossible, or a feature formerly in that category but now unveiled.

4. n. The ultimate goal of all engineering & development, elegance in the extreme; from the first corollary to Clarke's Third Law: “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced”.

Parodies playing on these senses of the term abound; some have made their way into serious documentation, as when a MAGIC directive was described in the Control Card Reference for GCOS c.1978. For more about hackish ‘magic’, see Appendix A. Compare black magic, wizardly, deep magic, heavy wizardry.

— The New Hacker's Dictionary

bogon

[very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's ‘Vogons’; see the Bibliography in Appendix C and note that Arthur Dent actually mispronounces ‘Vogons’ as ‘Bogons’ at one point]

1. The elementary particle of bogosity (see quantum bogodynamics). For instance, “the Ethernet is emitting bogons again” means that it is broken or acting in an erratic or bogus fashion.

2. A query packet sent from a TCP/IP domain resolver to a root server, having the reply bit set instead of the query bit.

3. Any bogus or incorrectly formed packet sent on a network.

4. By synecdoche, used to refer to any bogus thing, as in “I'd like to go to lunch with you but I've got to go to the weekly staff bogon”.

5. A person who is bogus or who says bogus things. This was historically the original usage, but has been overtaken by its derivative senses 1--4. See also bogosity, bogus; compare psyton, fat electrons, magic smoke.

The bogon has become the type case for a whole bestiary of nonce particle names, including the ‘clutron’ or ‘cluon’ (indivisible particle of cluefulness, obviously the antiparticle of the bogon) and the futon (elementary particle of randomness, or sometimes of lameness). These are not so much live usages in themselves as examples of a live meta-usage: that is, it has become a standard joke or linguistic maneuver to “explain” otherwise mysterious circumstances by inventing nonce particle names. And these imply nonce particle theories, with all their dignity or lack thereof (we might note parenthetically that this is a generalization from “(bogus particle) theories” to “bogus (particle theories)”!). Perhaps such particles are the modern-day equivalents of trolls and wood-nymphs as standard starting-points around which to construct explanatory myths. Of course, playing on an existing word (as in the ‘futon’) yields additional flavor. Compare magic smoke.

— The New Hacker's Dictionary

Infinite Monkey Theorem

“If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.” (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time.) This theorem asserts nothing about the intelligence of the one random monkey that eventually comes up with the script (and note that the mob will also type out all the possible incorrect versions of Hamlet). It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a brute force method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a one-banana problem. This argument gets more respect since Linux justified the bazaar mode of development.

Other hackers maintain that the Infinite-Monkey Theorem cannot be true — otherwise Usenet would have reproduced the entire canon of great literature by now.

In mid-2002, researchers at Plymouth Univesity in England actually put a working computer in a cage with six crested macaques. The monkeys proceeded to bash the machine with a rock, urinate on it, and type the letter S a lot (later, the letters A, J, L, and M also crept in). The results were published in a limited-edition book, Notes Towards The Complete Works of Shakespeare. A researcher reported: “They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there.” Scattered field reports that there are AOL users this competent have been greeted with well-deserved skepticism.

This theorem has been traced to the mathematiciamn Émile Borel in 1913, and was first popularized by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. It became part of the idiom of techies via the classic SF short story Inflexible Logic by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through a reference in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Some other references have been collected on the Web. On 1 April 2000 the usage acquired its own Internet standard, RFC2795 (Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite).

— The New Hacker's Dictionary