Chapter Orlando Furioso to Osiris of O by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

by far the worst of all. This last worthy is slain by Rob Roy, and dies cursing his cousin Frank, whom he had injured in every way he could contrive.

Oseway (Dame). The ewe in the tale of Reynard the Fox.

Osiris (in Egyptian mythology). Judge of the dead, and potentate of the kingdom of the ghosts. This brother and husband of Isis was worshipped under the form of an ox. The word means Many-eyed. Osiris is the moon, husband of Isis.

“We see Osiris represented by the moon, and by an eye at the top of fourteen steps. These steps symbolise the fourteen days of the waxing moon.”- J. N. Lockyer, in the Nineteenth Century, July, 1892, p. 31.

   Osiris is used to designate any waning luminary, as the setting sun, as well as the waning moon or setting planet.
    Osiris is the setting sun, but the rising sun is Horus, and the noonday sun Ra.