Herculesn.

/ˈhəːkjuːliːz/

Etymology: Latin, < Greek Ἡρακλῆς (-κλέης), < Ἥρα, Hera, wife of Zeus + κλέος glory, renown, lit. ‘having or showing the glory of Hera’.

a. A celebrated hero of Greek and Roman mythology, who after death was ranked among the gods and received divine honours. He is represented as possessed of prodigious strength, whereby he was enabled to perform twelve extraordinary tasks or ‘labours’ imposed upon him by Hera, to which, and to his club, there are many allusions in literature. In Greek and Latin his name is used in exclamations and asseverations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities

Plutoc1330

Herculesc1369

Proteusa1425

Tellusc1425

chaosa1522

grace1538

terminus1565

victory1569

Hymena1593

harvest queen1598

Hades1599

aurora1610

puffer1615

Egeria1624

hour1637

Hygeia1737

Kore1844

Nike1846

vintage-god1873

c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1058 Thogh I had hadde..al the strengthe of Ercules.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Sj^v A tale of one, whose cart stode fast in the myre, whiche man..cried to Hercules for helpe.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 21 A travel and charge farre greater than the twelve labors of Hercules.

1599 George a Greene sig. C3^v Not Hercules against two the prouerbe is.

1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 19 O Hercules! Why should a Man like this..Be all the care of Heav'n?

1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 27 By Hercules, the Writing of Octavius!

b. A representation of Hercules or a strong man.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > other subjects

Sphinx1579

Hercules1638

weeper1656

ophioucha1697

pastorality1821

sheela-na-gig1844

orans1900

kouros1920

three wise monkeys1926

gnome1938

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 164 [He] was taken with nothing so much as with a little Hercules standing upon the table.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxiv. 207 The arms of the house of Brandenburg, supported by two Hercules's.

c. Pillars of Hercules, Hercules' Pillars: the rocks Calpé (now Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta), on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, thought by the ancients to be the supports of the western boundary of the world, and to have been set up by Hercules; so Straits of Hercules. Hence figurative, an ultimate limit, the ne plus ultra.

ΚΠ

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 298 To þe see Gaditanus, þere Hercules his pileres stondeþ.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 87 We must laie before us the noble devise of Charles the fifth, to wit, the pillers of Hercules, and to dispose ourselves to goe beyond them.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 A parochiall Minister, who has his reward, and is at his Hercules pillars in a warm benefice.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii The Mediterranean squadron..was vainly struggling to pass the pillars of Hercules.

2. One who resembles Hercules in strength; a man of prodigious strength; a big man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person

giant1559

Hercules1567

Gogmagogc1580

cob1582

Gargantuist1593

hulk1600

rhinoceros1602

colossus1605

pompiona1616

lump1630

strapper1675

man-mountain1726

Brobdingnagian1728

grenadier1805

butt-cut1806

gorilla1884

King Kong1933

hunk1941

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > strong person > strong man

Samsonc1460

Hercules1567

Samsonian1654

strongman1701

muscle man1805

butchy1891

1567 Triall of Treasure sig. B^v Where is nowe that valiaunt Hercules, For all his bragges he is nowe ronne away.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 163 Others there are, who can be satisfied with nothing less than heroism in self-denial, they must be..Herculeses to subdue all monsters.

1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem I. xlii. 163 The tea~kettle was brought in by a black Hercules.

3. A fanciful name given to powerful machines:

a. A heavy weight used like the ram or ‘monkey’ in a pile-driving machine.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > rammers

stamper1484

wilkin1495

rammer1497

monkey1750

Hercules1794

punner1844

ram1875

boser1930

sheep's foot roller1934

the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [noun] > ponderable matter > that which is heavy or a heavy mass > used on account of its weight > specific

pea1671

Hercules1794

chock1842

sinker1852

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 80 The Hercules is used for setting straight the shank, welding..the arms to the shank, of large anchors. It consists of a weight of about 400 lb. faced with steel, and a long iron shank.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 425/1 The ‘Hercules’, a ponderous mass of iron attached to a vertical guide rod, which was lifted originally by a gang of men with ropes, but afterwards by steam power, and allowed to fall by its own weight.

b. A kind of machine for cleansing the streets.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > device for

scraper1831

Hercules1890

slip scraper1934

road sweeper1937

1890 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/3 This new contrivance is called the ‘Hercules’ machine—an apt name for the Augæan stable of London..This new Hercules can scrape thoroughly clean, in sixty minutes, half a mile in length by nearly thirty feet in width of the dirtiest street space in London.

4. Entomology. (In full, Hercules beetle). A gigantic lamellicorn beetle, Dynastes (or Megasoma) Hercules, about five inches in length.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > member of family Dynastidae

Hercules1816

dynastidan1835

1816 P. Wakefield Nat. Hist. Insects iv. 28 The largest of this genus is called the Hercules, and is a Native of South America.

1840 W. Swainson & W. E. Shuckard Hist. Insects 232 Turn to..the Hercules beetle..it cannot for a moment be doubted that this gigantic insect is completely arboreal.

5. Botany. = Hercules' club n.

ΚΠ

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 189 Zanthoxylum... Prickly Yellow-wood, or yellow Hercules.

6. Astronomy. A name of one of the northern constellations, figured as a man kneeling on his right knee; known to the earlier Greek and Roman writers as ἐνγόνασι(ν, genunixus, ingenic(u)lus, the ‘kneeler’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Hercules

Hercules1674

1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) 212 Engonasis..some will have it to be Hercules, that mighty Conqueror.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Stars in the Constellation Hercules, in Ptolomy's Catalogue are 29.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 148 Hercules, one of the old constellations, called ἐνγονασιν by Aratus, Hyginus, and Ptolemy, and described by the first as ‘a figure like that of a man in sorrow’. [Hyginus Poet. Astron. ( b.c. 10) has En Gonasin. Hunc Eratosthenes Herculem dicit.]

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

Hercules-like adj.

ΚΠ

1593 Bacchus' Bountie in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 304 All the other gods and goddesses, Hercules-like, are cloyed with such cholericke clubbes.

C2.

Hercules' allheal n. a perennial umbelliferous plant, Opopanax Chironium.

ΚΠ

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 850 Hercules Alheale or Woundwoort.

Hercules braid n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 252/1 Hercules Braid. A thick corded worsted braid, which is employed for trimmings.

Hercules knot n. a kind of knot, attributed to Hercules, very difficult to undo.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > difficult to undo

Hercules knot1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 305 As for greene wounds, it is wonderfull how soon they will be healed, in case they be bound vp and tied with a Hercules knot.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 265 The true lovers knot..had perhaps its originall from Nodus Herculanus, or that which was called Hercules his knot .

Hercules powder n. a powerful explosive used in mining operations.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives

powdera1393

gunpowder1411

saltpetre1501

petre1586

halinitre1608

sal-prunella1664

petre-salt1708

xyloidin1838

gun-cotton1846

pyroxyle1847

pyroxylin1847

pyroglycerin1850

xylidine1850

nitroglycerine1852

gun-sawdust1853

picrate1854

trinitroglycerin1864

nitroleum1866

trinitrin1866

dynamite1867

giant-powder1872

dualin1874

fulgurite1874

rendrock1874

glyoxilin1875

lithofracteur1875

trinitro-cellulose1875

white gunpowder1875

gelatin1878

cotton-powder1879

vigorite1879

blasting gelatine1881

Hercules powder1881

saxifragine1881

tonite1881

dynamogen1882

forcite1883

haloxylin1883

jelly powdera1884

nitro-gelatinea1884

panclastite1883

potentite1883

sebastinea1884

kolloxylin1884

hellhoffite1885

rackarock1885

securite1886

kinetite1887

roburite1887

carbo-dynamite1888

fortis1889

gelatine dynamite1889

gelignite1889

seranine1889

straw-dynamite1889

carbonite1890

amberite1891

nitro powder1892

Schnebelite1893

westfalite1894

thorite1899

soup1902

ammonal1903

cheddite1908

trinitrotoluene1908

Samsonite1909

tolite1909

trinitrotoluol1910

trotyl1910

glyceryl trinitrate1912

T.N.T.1915

nitro1916

amatol1918

cyclonite1923

hexogen1923

lox1923

pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923

hexite1931

aurantia1940

jelly1941

RDX1941

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 145 Hercules powder.

1882 Copp Amer. Mining Code 101 The principal explosives used in mining are..rend-rock, Hercules..and other powders.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	hercules
释义	Herculesn. /ˈhəːkjuːliːz/ Etymology: Latin, < Greek Ἡρακλῆς (-κλέης), < Ἥρα, Hera, wife of Zeus + κλέος glory, renown, lit. ‘having or showing the glory of Hera’. 1. a. A celebrated hero of Greek and Roman mythology, who after death was ranked among the gods and received divine honours. He is represented as possessed of prodigious strength, whereby he was enabled to perform twelve extraordinary tasks or ‘labours’ imposed upon him by Hera, to which, and to his club, there are many allusions in literature. In Greek and Latin his name is used in exclamations and asseverations. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities Plutoc1330 Herculesc1369 Proteusa1425 Tellusc1425 chaosa1522 grace1538 terminus1565 victory1569 Hymena1593 harvest queen1598 Hades1599 aurora1610 puffer1615 Egeria1624 hour1637 Hygeia1737 Kore1844 Nike1846 vintage-god1873 c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1058 Thogh I had hadde..al the strengthe of Ercules. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Sj^v A tale of one, whose cart stode fast in the myre, whiche man..cried to Hercules for helpe. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 21 A travel and charge farre greater than the twelve labors of Hercules. 1599 George a Greene sig. C3^v Not Hercules against two the prouerbe is. 1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 19 O Hercules! Why should a Man like this..Be all the care of Heav'n? 1678 J. Dryden All for Love ii. 27 By Hercules, the Writing of Octavius! b. A representation of Hercules or a strong man. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > other subjects Sphinx1579 Hercules1638 weeper1656 ophioucha1697 pastorality1821 sheela-na-gig1844 orans1900 kouros1920 three wise monkeys1926 gnome1938 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 164 [He] was taken with nothing so much as with a little Hercules standing upon the table. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxiv. 207 The arms of the house of Brandenburg, supported by two Hercules's. c. Pillars of Hercules, Hercules' Pillars: the rocks Calpé (now Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta), on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, thought by the ancients to be the supports of the western boundary of the world, and to have been set up by Hercules; so Straits of Hercules. Hence figurative, an ultimate limit, the ne plus ultra. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 298 To þe see Gaditanus, þere Hercules his pileres stondeþ. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 87 We must laie before us the noble devise of Charles the fifth, to wit, the pillers of Hercules, and to dispose ourselves to goe beyond them. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 A parochiall Minister, who has his reward, and is at his Hercules pillars in a warm benefice. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii The Mediterranean squadron..was vainly struggling to pass the pillars of Hercules. 2. One who resembles Hercules in strength; a man of prodigious strength; a big man. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person giant1559 Hercules1567 Gogmagogc1580 cob1582 Gargantuist1593 hulk1600 rhinoceros1602 colossus1605 pompiona1616 lump1630 strapper1675 man-mountain1726 Brobdingnagian1728 grenadier1805 butt-cut1806 gorilla1884 King Kong1933 hunk1941 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > strong person > strong man Samsonc1460 Hercules1567 Samsonian1654 strongman1701 muscle man1805 butchy1891 1567 Triall of Treasure sig. B^v Where is nowe that valiaunt Hercules, For all his bragges he is nowe ronne away. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 163 Others there are, who can be satisfied with nothing less than heroism in self-denial, they must be..Herculeses to subdue all monsters. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem I. xlii. 163 The tea~kettle was brought in by a black Hercules. 3. A fanciful name given to powerful machines: a. A heavy weight used like the ram or ‘monkey’ in a pile-driving machine. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > rammers stamper1484 wilkin1495 rammer1497 monkey1750 Hercules1794 punner1844 ram1875 boser1930 sheep's foot roller1934 the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [noun] > ponderable matter > that which is heavy or a heavy mass > used on account of its weight > specific pea1671 Hercules1794 chock1842 sinker1852 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 80 The Hercules is used for setting straight the shank, welding..the arms to the shank, of large anchors. It consists of a weight of about 400 lb. faced with steel, and a long iron shank. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 425/1 The ‘Hercules’, a ponderous mass of iron attached to a vertical guide rod, which was lifted originally by a gang of men with ropes, but afterwards by steam power, and allowed to fall by its own weight. b. A kind of machine for cleansing the streets. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > device for scraper1831 Hercules1890 slip scraper1934 road sweeper1937 1890 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/3 This new contrivance is called the ‘Hercules’ machine—an apt name for the Augæan stable of London..This new Hercules can scrape thoroughly clean, in sixty minutes, half a mile in length by nearly thirty feet in width of the dirtiest street space in London. 4. Entomology. (In full, Hercules beetle). A gigantic lamellicorn beetle, Dynastes (or Megasoma) Hercules, about five inches in length. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > member of family Dynastidae Hercules1816 dynastidan1835 1816 P. Wakefield Nat. Hist. Insects iv. 28 The largest of this genus is called the Hercules, and is a Native of South America. 1840 W. Swainson & W. E. Shuckard Hist. Insects 232 Turn to..the Hercules beetle..it cannot for a moment be doubted that this gigantic insect is completely arboreal. 5. Botany. = Hercules' club n. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 189 Zanthoxylum... Prickly Yellow-wood, or yellow Hercules. 6. Astronomy. A name of one of the northern constellations, figured as a man kneeling on his right knee; known to the earlier Greek and Roman writers as ἐνγόνασι(ν, genunixus, ingenic(u)lus, the ‘kneeler’. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Northern constellations > [noun] > Hercules Hercules1674 1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) 212 Engonasis..some will have it to be Hercules, that mighty Conqueror. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Stars in the Constellation Hercules, in Ptolomy's Catalogue are 29. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 148 Hercules, one of the old constellations, called ἐνγονασιν by Aratus, Hyginus, and Ptolemy, and described by the first as ‘a figure like that of a man in sorrow’. [Hyginus Poet. Astron. ( b.c. 10) has En Gonasin. Hunc Eratosthenes Herculem dicit.] Compounds C1. General attributive. Hercules-like adj. ΚΠ 1593 Bacchus' Bountie in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 304 All the other gods and goddesses, Hercules-like, are cloyed with such cholericke clubbes. C2. Hercules' allheal n. a perennial umbelliferous plant, Opopanax Chironium. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 850 Hercules Alheale or Woundwoort. Hercules braid n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 252/1 Hercules Braid. A thick corded worsted braid, which is employed for trimmings. Hercules knot n. a kind of knot, attributed to Hercules, very difficult to undo. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > difficult to undo Hercules knot1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 305 As for greene wounds, it is wonderfull how soon they will be healed, in case they be bound vp and tied with a Hercules knot. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 265 The true lovers knot..had perhaps its originall from Nodus Herculanus, or that which was called Hercules his knot . View more context for this quotation Hercules powder n. a powerful explosive used in mining operations. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives powdera1393 gunpowder1411 saltpetre1501 petre1586 halinitre1608 sal-prunella1664 petre-salt1708 xyloidin1838 gun-cotton1846 pyroxyle1847 pyroxylin1847 pyroglycerin1850 xylidine1850 nitroglycerine1852 gun-sawdust1853 picrate1854 trinitroglycerin1864 nitroleum1866 trinitrin1866 dynamite1867 giant-powder1872 dualin1874 fulgurite1874 rendrock1874 glyoxilin1875 lithofracteur1875 trinitro-cellulose1875 white gunpowder1875 gelatin1878 cotton-powder1879 vigorite1879 blasting gelatine1881 Hercules powder1881 saxifragine1881 tonite1881 dynamogen1882 forcite1883 haloxylin1883 jelly powdera1884 nitro-gelatinea1884 panclastite1883 potentite1883 sebastinea1884 kolloxylin1884 hellhoffite1885 rackarock1885 securite1886 kinetite1887 roburite1887 carbo-dynamite1888 fortis1889 gelatine dynamite1889 gelignite1889 seranine1889 straw-dynamite1889 carbonite1890 amberite1891 nitro powder1892 Schnebelite1893 westfalite1894 thorite1899 soup1902 ammonal1903 cheddite1908 trinitrotoluene1908 Samsonite1909 tolite1909 trinitrotoluol1910 trotyl1910 glyceryl trinitrate1912 T.N.T.1915 nitro1916 amatol1918 cyclonite1923 hexogen1923 lox1923 pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923 hexite1931 aurantia1940 jelly1941 RDX1941 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 145 Hercules powder. 1882 Copp Amer. Mining Code 101 The principal explosives used in mining are..rend-rock, Hercules..and other powders. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1369
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