ugsome (ugsum)

[ An ugsom noyse, that noyet the pepull, With wepyng and waile wo to beholde. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 13734. Since she has ki 'd your ugsome mouth, She never shall ki mine. Sir Hugh le Blond (Child's Ballads, III. 256). n. The state of be- ugsomene (ug's um-nes), ing ugsome; ugline . Bp. Fisher, Seven Penitential Psalms, Ps. xxxviii. vincial.] IMG:content-1202.png:[blocks in formation] uhlan, ulan (ö'lan or ü'lan), hulan, houlan, = oghlan servant, Tatar ogl popular pron. ōlan, a son, boy, boy, lad, used as a title of princes); cf. Turk. ogul, ogul, oghl, Tatar ogul, a son.] A soldier mounted and armed with a lance, and wearing a kind of semi-Oriental dre with loose hanging sleeves hang in and very baggy trousers: originally known in the eastern countries of Europe. Uhlans were armed with a curved simitar besides the lance. Under Marshal Saxe, a corps of uhlans was temporarily established in the French army. At the present time the name is given to light cavalry armed with the lance; the Pru ian uhlans are especially renowned. oglan, a son, child (formerly