GORGON
\ɡˈɔːɡən], \ɡˈɔːɡən], \ɡ_ˈɔː_ɡ_ə_n]\
Definitions of GORGON
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.
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Anything very ugly or horrid.
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The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
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Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face.
By Oddity Software
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One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.
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Anything very ugly or horrid.
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The brindled gnu. See Gnu.
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Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a face.
By Noah Webster.
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A fabled monster of so horrible an aspect that every one who looked on it was turned to stone: anything very ugly.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A frightful female monster inhabiting the edge of the Western ocean.
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The head of the Gorgon Medusa, - set in the egis of Athenn, after the monster had been slain by Perseus.
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Any hideously ugly being or object.
By James Champlin Fernald
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