AULLAY, a monster horse with an elephant’s trunk.  The creature is as much bigger than an elephant as an elephant is larger than a sheep.  King Baly of India rode on an aullay.

  The aullay, hugest of four-footed kind,
  The aullay-horse, that in his force,
  With elephantine trunk, could bind
  And lift the elephant, and on the wind
  Whirl him away, with sway and swing,
  E’en like a pebble from a practised sling.

  Southey, Curse of Kehama, xvi. 2 (1809).

AURELIUS, a young nobleman who tried to win to himself Dorigen, the wife of Arviragus, but Dorigen told him she would never yield to his suit till all the rocks of the British coast were removed, “and there n’is no stone y-seen.”  Aurelius by magic made all the rocks disappear, but when Dorigen went, at her husband’s bidding, to keep her promise, Aurelius, seeing how sad she was, made answer, he would rather die than injure so true a wife and noble a gentleman.—­Chaucer, Canterbury Tales ("The Franklin’s Tale,” 1388).

(This is substantially the same as Boccaccio’s tale of Dimora and Gilberto, x. 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 vanquished his foes.

  Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI., act iii. sc. 2 (1589).

AURORA LEIGH, daughter of an Englishman and an Italian woman.  At her father’s death Aurora comes to England to live with a severe, practical aunt.  In time she becomes a poet, travels far, sees much, and thinks much of life’s problems.  She marries her cousin Romney, a philanthropist, blinded by an accident.—­Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856).

AURORA NUNCANOU, beautiful Creole widow in The Grandissimes, by George W. Cable.  In her thirty-fifth year, she “is the red, red, full-blown, faultless joy of the garden.  With her it will be always morning.  That woman is going to last forever; ha-a-a-a!—­even longer!” (1880).

AUSTIN, the assumed name of the lord of Clarinsal, when he renounced the world and became a monk of St. Nicholas.  Theodore, the grandson of Alfonso, was his son, and rightful heir to the possessions and title of the count of Narbonne.—­Robert Jephson, Count of Narbonne (1782).

AUSTINS (The). Miss Susan, old maid resident at Whiteladies, concerned in a conspiracy to introduce a false heir to the estate.

Miss Augustine, saintly sister, who tries to “turn the curse from Whiteladies, by her own prayers and those of her almsmen.”—­Whiteladies, by M.O.W.  Oliphant.