hydran.

Brit.

/ˈhʌɪdrə/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪdrə/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s ydre, Middle English ydres, 1500s–1600s hydre, hyder. β. Middle English idra, 1500s–1600s hidra, 1500s– hydra.

Etymology: < Latin hydra, < Greek ὕδρα , water-serpent; spec. as in sense 1. Some of the earlier forms are < Old French idres, ydre (modern French hydre).

I. Mythological and related senses.

1. Greek Mythology. The fabulous many-headed snake of the marshes of Lerna, whose heads grew again as fast as they were cut off: said to have been at length killed by Hercules.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > snakes

hydrac1374

pythonc1390

α.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. pr. vi. 104 Whan o dowte is determyned and kut awey, ther wexen oother dowtes with-owte nowmbyr ryht as the heuedes wexen of ydre the serpent þat Ercules slowh.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 28 The vii. [labour of Hercules], killyng of þe grete serpent cleped Ydras.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xi. xix How redoubted Hercules..Fought with an ydre.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa^v Spring-headed Hydres, and sea-shouldring Whales.

β. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. ix Ydra is a serpente wiþ many hedes..and it is seide that ȝif one hed is smyte of þree hedes growiþ aȝen.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xii. sig. Kk3^v Like the hell-borne Hydra, which they faine That great Alcides whilome ouerthrew. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 297 Had I as many mouthes as Hydra, such an answer would stop em all. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 628 Worse Then Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydra's, and Chimera's dire. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. iii. 269 When Alexander the Great died, many tyrants, like many hydras, immediately sprung up.1879 Gladstone in Liberal Mag. 1 No. 6. 663 The Eastern question has as many heads as the hydra.

2. transferred and figurative. A thing, person, or body of persons compared to the Lernaean hydra in its baneful or destructive character, its multifarious aspects, or the difficulty of its extirpation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys

baneOE

losera1340

leeserc1380

stroyerc1380

destroyer1382

ravenerc1390

castera1400

confounder1401

wastera1425

stroyc1440

undoerc1440

unmakerc1450

confounderess1509

hydraa1513

stroy-good1540

abolisher1548

thunderbolt1559

disannullera1572

stroy-all1573

ruiner1581

down-puller1583

murdererc1585

spendingc1595

blaster1598

assassin1609

ruinater1609

dissolver1611

minerc1614

destructioner1621

fordoer1631

sinker1632

destructive1640

deletery1642

assassinatea1658

ruinator1658

destroyeress1662

destructora1691

dissolvent1835

solvent1841

wrecker1882

destructant1889

the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > one who practises variation > hydra

hydraa1513

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cciiii. f. cxxv^v The serpent Idre, of enuy and false conspyracy, whiche euer burned in the harte of Edricus.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cxviij^v That odyouse hydre and hissinge serpent of Rome.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 400 They minister life and nourishment..to this monstrous Hydra of couetousnesse and lucre.

1592 S. Daniel Delia xv. (R.) And yet the hydra of my cares renews Still new born sorrows of her fresh disdain.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 15 Feb. The Hydra is not to be destroy'd, unless you strike off all the Heads at once;..if you were to turn out one Jacobite Head of a College, another as bad is ready to step in his room.

1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xxv. 35 Selfishness..is the hydra we are perpetually combating.

1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xii. 26 The hydra of revolt lay stunned and prostrate.

3. A rhetorical term for any terrific serpent or reptile; a ‘dragon’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > reptile > huge or like a dragon

wormOE

hydra1546

1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 77^v Great honoure.. yt was to Saynt George that noble captayne, to slee the great hydre or Dragon at Silena.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. i. 467 The Deserts of Lybia have in them many Hydras.

1851–78 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered iv. v Hydras hiss, and Pythons whistling wail.

4. A water-snake; esp. one of the venomous sea-snakes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > aquatic

water addereOE

rinatrixa1398

water snake1527

water serpent1530

sea-adder1601

hydra1608

sea-serpent1672

water viper1737

sea-snake1827

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > member of family Hydrophidae

water snake1527

water serpent1530

hydra1608

sea-serpent1672

sea-snake1827

Hydrus1838

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 235 All water-serpents, as well of the fresh, salt, & sweet waters may be called Hyders, or Snakes.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. ix. 36 Around them greenest hydras twisting roll'd Their volumes.

1855 R. W. Emerson Sov. Ethics in Wks. (1906) III. 374 Her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

5. Astronomy. An ancient southern constellation, represented as a water-snake or sea-serpent. Its chief star is Alphard or Cor Hydræ, of the second magnitude.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Hydra

serpent1556

hydra1559

water serpent1599

water snake1838

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 27 A Table of many notable fixed Sterres with their longitude..Brightest in Hydra.

1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) 221 Hydra, the Hydre.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 379/2 Hydra, the Water-snake, one of the old constellations.

1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xii. 293 The very existence of such a stream as Eridanus or Hydra..implies..such a process of segregation.

II. Technical senses relating to living organisms.

6. Zoology.

a. (plural usually hydrae.) A genus of Hydrozoa, consisting of freshwater polyps of very simple structure, the body having the form of a cylindrical tube, with a mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles with stinging thread-cells.The name was given to it by Linnæus (1756), in allusion to the fact that cutting it in pieces only multiplies its numbers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of order Hydroidea > genus Hydra

hydra1798

1798 F. Kanmacher Adams's Ess. Microscope (ed. 2) (title page) An account of the..singular properties of the Hydræ and Verticellæ.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 609/1 The Hydra..is the largest..of the Fresh-water Polypi.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §1050 If cut transversely into several segments, each will in time become a perfect animal, so that thirty or forty Hydræ may thus be produced by the section of one.

1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 20 The Hydra possesses a gelatinous, sub-cylindrical body..having one end expanded into an adherent disc, or foot, a mouth being situated at its opposite extremity.

b. The sexual bud or medusa of any hydroid hydrozoan; so called from its resemblance to an individual of the genus Hydra.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of order Hydroidea > gonophore

meconidium1849

hydra1865

1865 E. C. Agassiz & A. Agassiz Seaside Stud. Nat. Hist. 23 The whole mass of the coral is porous, and the cavities occupied by the Hydrae are sunk perpendicularly to the surface within the rock.

c. hydra tuba n. a larval or non-sexual form of hydroid in certain Hydrozoa, of a trumpet-like form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of > zooid > larval

hydra tuba1847

1847 J. G. Dalyell Rare Animals Scotl. I. 76 Hydra tuba, the Trumpet Polypus.

1858 T. H. Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 7 The like structure is observable in the ‘Hydra tuba’, the larval form of the Lucernarian Medusæ.

1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. 101 The Hydra-tuba, as the young organism at this stage of its career has been termed by Sir J. G. Dalyell.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 780 The non-sexual Hydroid form of the Acraspeda, the Scyphistoma or Hydra tuba.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

a. in senses 1, 2: Of or belonging to a hydra, hydra-like; having as many heads, or as difficult to extirpate, as the Lernæan hydra.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > difficult to extirpate

hydra1586

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 455 Protectors of this Hydra Ignorance.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 264 Whereon this Hydra-Sonne [1600 Hidra, sonne] of Warre is borne.

1683 T. Hoy Agathocles 16 Poor Men! our Fruitful Hydra-Ills encrease, For One Head lost, an Hundred in the Place.

1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin vi. 113 Tyranny Erects her Hydra-head.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 47 Dark Dæmons I discharge, and Hydra-stings.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham I. 7 They are the hydra assailants which return with every hour.

1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 444 If there is a fight..you will then hear what a hydra force sprouted out for the occasion.

b. in sense 6: Belonging to or resembling the genus Hydra of polyps.

ΚΠ

1878 E. Clark Visit S. Amer. 45 This singular organism the physalia belongs to the hydra family, and is in every respect a jelly fish.

1880 E. R. Lankester in Nature 4 Mar. 413/2 The sperm from which a new generation of hydra-forms will spring.

C2. similative or parasynthetic, as hydra-headed, hydra-kinded, hydra-necked adjs.; also hydra-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adjective] > multiple

hydra-headed1589

multiplex1606

multiplicious1617

myriad1817

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxviii. 126 Those Hydra-kinded warres.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 36 Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse So soone did loose his Seat; and all at once; As in this King.

1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccxlix. 63 Hydra-like, the fire, Lifts up his hundred heads to aim his way.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. vi. 72 This hydra-headed monster rose again after a few years.

1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 2 43 The Puff Literary is hydra-headed.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 41 Fancying that they can cut off at a blow the Hydra-like rogueries of mankind.

1899 Daily News 8 Feb. 7/5 The hydra~headed leadership of the Irish party.

1963 Daily Tel. 20 Nov. 14/2 The hydra-headed challenge of London's mounting traffic congestion.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hydra
释义	hydran. Brit. /ˈhʌɪdrə/, U.S. /ˈhaɪdrə/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s ydre, Middle English ydres, 1500s–1600s hydre, hyder. β. Middle English idra, 1500s–1600s hidra, 1500s– hydra. Etymology: < Latin hydra, < Greek ὕδρα , water-serpent; spec. as in sense 1. Some of the earlier forms are < Old French idres, ydre (modern French hydre). I. Mythological and related senses. 1. Greek Mythology. The fabulous many-headed snake of the marshes of Lerna, whose heads grew again as fast as they were cut off: said to have been at length killed by Hercules. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > snakes hydrac1374 pythonc1390 α. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. pr. vi. 104 Whan o dowte is determyned and kut awey, ther wexen oother dowtes with-owte nowmbyr ryht as the heuedes wexen of ydre the serpent þat Ercules slowh. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 28 The vii. [labour of Hercules], killyng of þe grete serpent cleped Ydras. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xi. xix How redoubted Hercules..Fought with an ydre. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Aa^v Spring-headed Hydres, and sea-shouldring Whales. β. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. ix Ydra is a serpente wiþ many hedes..and it is seide that ȝif one hed is smyte of þree hedes growiþ aȝen.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. xii. sig. Kk3^v Like the hell-borne Hydra, which they faine That great Alcides whilome ouerthrew. View more context for this quotationa1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 297 Had I as many mouthes as Hydra, such an answer would stop em all. View more context for this quotation1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 628 Worse Then Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydra's, and Chimera's dire. View more context for this quotationa1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. iii. 269 When Alexander the Great died, many tyrants, like many hydras, immediately sprung up.1879 Gladstone in Liberal Mag. 1 No. 6. 663 The Eastern question has as many heads as the hydra. 2. transferred and figurative. A thing, person, or body of persons compared to the Lernaean hydra in its baneful or destructive character, its multifarious aspects, or the difficulty of its extirpation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys baneOE losera1340 leeserc1380 stroyerc1380 destroyer1382 ravenerc1390 castera1400 confounder1401 wastera1425 stroyc1440 undoerc1440 unmakerc1450 confounderess1509 hydraa1513 stroy-good1540 abolisher1548 thunderbolt1559 disannullera1572 stroy-all1573 ruiner1581 down-puller1583 murdererc1585 spendingc1595 blaster1598 assassin1609 ruinater1609 dissolver1611 minerc1614 destructioner1621 fordoer1631 sinker1632 destructive1640 deletery1642 assassinatea1658 ruinator1658 destroyeress1662 destructora1691 dissolvent1835 solvent1841 wrecker1882 destructant1889 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > one who practises variation > hydra hydraa1513 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cciiii. f. cxxv^v The serpent Idre, of enuy and false conspyracy, whiche euer burned in the harte of Edricus. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. cxviij^v That odyouse hydre and hissinge serpent of Rome. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 400 They minister life and nourishment..to this monstrous Hydra of couetousnesse and lucre. 1592 S. Daniel Delia xv. (R.) And yet the hydra of my cares renews Still new born sorrows of her fresh disdain. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 15 Feb. The Hydra is not to be destroy'd, unless you strike off all the Heads at once;..if you were to turn out one Jacobite Head of a College, another as bad is ready to step in his room. 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xxv. 35 Selfishness..is the hydra we are perpetually combating. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire II. xii. 26 The hydra of revolt lay stunned and prostrate. 3. A rhetorical term for any terrific serpent or reptile; a ‘dragon’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > reptile > huge or like a dragon wormOE hydra1546 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 77^v Great honoure.. yt was to Saynt George that noble captayne, to slee the great hydre or Dragon at Silena. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. i. 467 The Deserts of Lybia have in them many Hydras. 1851–78 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered iv. v Hydras hiss, and Pythons whistling wail. 4. A water-snake; esp. one of the venomous sea-snakes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > aquatic water addereOE rinatrixa1398 water snake1527 water serpent1530 sea-adder1601 hydra1608 sea-serpent1672 water viper1737 sea-snake1827 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > member of family Hydrophidae water snake1527 water serpent1530 hydra1608 sea-serpent1672 sea-snake1827 Hydrus1838 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 235 All water-serpents, as well of the fresh, salt, & sweet waters may be called Hyders, or Snakes. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. ix. 36 Around them greenest hydras twisting roll'd Their volumes. 1855 R. W. Emerson Sov. Ethics in Wks. (1906) III. 374 Her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles. 5. Astronomy. An ancient southern constellation, represented as a water-snake or sea-serpent. Its chief star is Alphard or Cor Hydræ, of the second magnitude. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Hydra serpent1556 hydra1559 water serpent1599 water snake1838 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 27 A Table of many notable fixed Sterres with their longitude..Brightest in Hydra. 1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) 221 Hydra, the Hydre. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 379/2 Hydra, the Water-snake, one of the old constellations. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours xii. 293 The very existence of such a stream as Eridanus or Hydra..implies..such a process of segregation. II. Technical senses relating to living organisms. 6. Zoology. a. (plural usually hydrae.) A genus of Hydrozoa, consisting of freshwater polyps of very simple structure, the body having the form of a cylindrical tube, with a mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles with stinging thread-cells.The name was given to it by Linnæus (1756), in allusion to the fact that cutting it in pieces only multiplies its numbers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of order Hydroidea > genus Hydra hydra1798 1798 F. Kanmacher Adams's Ess. Microscope (ed. 2) (title page) An account of the..singular properties of the Hydræ and Verticellæ. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 609/1 The Hydra..is the largest..of the Fresh-water Polypi. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §1050 If cut transversely into several segments, each will in time become a perfect animal, so that thirty or forty Hydræ may thus be produced by the section of one. 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 20 The Hydra possesses a gelatinous, sub-cylindrical body..having one end expanded into an adherent disc, or foot, a mouth being situated at its opposite extremity. b. The sexual bud or medusa of any hydroid hydrozoan; so called from its resemblance to an individual of the genus Hydra. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of order Hydroidea > gonophore meconidium1849 hydra1865 1865 E. C. Agassiz & A. Agassiz Seaside Stud. Nat. Hist. 23 The whole mass of the coral is porous, and the cavities occupied by the Hydrae are sunk perpendicularly to the surface within the rock. c. hydra tuba n. a larval or non-sexual form of hydroid in certain Hydrozoa, of a trumpet-like form. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > member of > zooid > larval hydra tuba1847 1847 J. G. Dalyell Rare Animals Scotl. I. 76 Hydra tuba, the Trumpet Polypus. 1858 T. H. Huxley Oceanic Hydrozoa 7 The like structure is observable in the ‘Hydra tuba’, the larval form of the Lucernarian Medusæ. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. 101 The Hydra-tuba, as the young organism at this stage of its career has been termed by Sir J. G. Dalyell. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 780 The non-sexual Hydroid form of the Acraspeda, the Scyphistoma or Hydra tuba. Compounds C1. attributive. a. in senses 1, 2: Of or belonging to a hydra, hydra-like; having as many heads, or as difficult to extirpate, as the Lernæan hydra. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] > difficult to extirpate hydra1586 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 455 Protectors of this Hydra Ignorance. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 264 Whereon this Hydra-Sonne [1600 Hidra, sonne] of Warre is borne. 1683 T. Hoy Agathocles 16 Poor Men! our Fruitful Hydra-Ills encrease, For One Head lost, an Hundred in the Place. 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin vi. 113 Tyranny Erects her Hydra-head. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 47 Dark Dæmons I discharge, and Hydra-stings. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham I. 7 They are the hydra assailants which return with every hour. 1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 444 If there is a fight..you will then hear what a hydra force sprouted out for the occasion. b. in sense 6: Belonging to or resembling the genus Hydra of polyps. ΚΠ 1878 E. Clark Visit S. Amer. 45 This singular organism the physalia belongs to the hydra family, and is in every respect a jelly fish. 1880 E. R. Lankester in Nature 4 Mar. 413/2 The sperm from which a new generation of hydra-forms will spring. C2. similative or parasynthetic, as hydra-headed, hydra-kinded, hydra-necked adjs.; also hydra-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > [adjective] > multiple hydra-headed1589 multiplex1606 multiplicious1617 myriad1817 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxviii. 126 Those Hydra-kinded warres. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. i. 36 Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse So soone did loose his Seat; and all at once; As in this King. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccxlix. 63 Hydra-like, the fire, Lifts up his hundred heads to aim his way. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) i. vi. 72 This hydra-headed monster rose again after a few years. 1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 2 43 The Puff Literary is hydra-headed. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 41 Fancying that they can cut off at a blow the Hydra-like rogueries of mankind. 1899 Daily News 8 Feb. 7/5 The hydra~headed leadership of the Irish party. 1963 Daily Tel. 20 Nov. 14/2 The hydra-headed challenge of London's mounting traffic congestion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1374
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