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Typhonn.1

/ˈtʌɪfɒn/
Etymology: < Latin Tȳphōn, < Greek Τῡϕῶν , name of a giant (see below); also, a tempestuous wind (see typhon n.2); also applied to a comet or meteor.
The name of a giant or monster of ancient Greek mythology (according to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus (see Typhoean adj.), and father of the Winds; later identified with Typhoeus), fabled to have been buried under Mount Etna, and represented as having a hundred heads and breathing out flames; also used as a name for the Egyptian evil divinity Set. Hence allusively.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > Typhon
Typhon?1592
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness > that which is
Typhon?1592
coloss1597
Titan1611
colossus1646
Patagonian1767
mammoth1824
enormity1825
mastodon1850
prodigiosity1895
tyrannosaurus1957
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. B2v Bas. What wouldst thou haue me a Typhon, To beare vp Peleon or Ossa? Pist. Typhon me no Typhons.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xx. 731/1 This aery Typhon [sc. Lambert Symnell] (which grasped at the embracement of the two Kingdomes of England and Ireland).
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) i. i. 7 Vlysses bare a Dolphine, and a Typhon breathing out flames of fire.
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 169 Those brazen Typhons, which disgorge..metall, flame and smoake.
1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 202 He marches all elate 'Gainst that Typhon of the state, Storm and hurricane and tempest combining.
a1864 T. Archer in Macfarlane Mem. (1867) vii. 190 Boring away at Berosus and Sanchoniatho..at Demi-gods and Typhons.
in combination.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 322 Woe to the vaine brauados, Of Typhon-like-inuincible Armados.1859 J. C. Fairbairn Hymns & Poems 92 That brindled monster, typhon-born.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

typhonn.2

Etymology: < Greek τῡϕῶν: see Typhon n.1 In later use partly suggested by typhoon n. Compare French typhon, Spanish tifon, Italian tifone.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtyphon.
? Obsolete.
a. A whirlwind, cyclone, tornado; a violent storm of wind, a hurricane.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > strong or violent wind > whirlwind or tornado
thodec725
storbilonc1315
whirlwinda1340
whirl-puffa1382
whirly-wind14..
rodion?a1439
tourbillion1477
trobelliona1500
hurlwind1509
typhon1555
whirler1606
travado1625
tornado1626
wild winda1661
turbo1677
vortexa1700
tornade1727
twirlwind1770
whirl-blast1800
coup de vent1831
twirlblast1865
twister1897
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 21v These tempestes of the ayer (which the Grecians caule Tiphones, that is, whyrle wyndes) they caule, Furacanes.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xi. 13 A wind called by the Gretians Typhon, of Plinie Vertex or Vortex.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ii. xlvii. 24 If the clift or breach bee not great, so that the wind be constrained to turn round, to rol and whirle in his discent,..it makes a whirlepuffe or ghust called Typhon.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) vii. 177 Cloud breaking Typhons did arise.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 27 There happen'd a Typhon or Tornado-wind,..not above forty yards broad.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 35 The violent Storms, called Tuffoons, (Typhones).
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 95 The circling Typhon, whirl'd from Point to Point, Exhausting all the Rage of all the Sky.
1761 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 126/1 On the 4th of May, a most violent whirlwind of that kind commonly known by the name of Typhons, passed down Ashley river [S. Carolina].
1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. iv. 121 A violent sirocco blew from the S.E... As long as this Typhon prevails, the streets are generally deserted.
1826 T. Hood She is far from Land 21 All the sea-dangers,..Tornadoes and typhons, And horrible syphons.
b. A waterspout. (Cf. quot. 1625 at typhoon n. α. .) Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > water-spout or sea-storm
water pipe1539
cataract1555
spout1555
hurricano1608
waterspout1625
whirlwater1626
whirl-spout1737
vortex1769
typhon1774
whirl-pillar1850
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 394 I am at a loss whether we ought to reckon these spouts called typhons; which are sometimes seen at land, of the same kind with those so often described by mariners, at sea.
c. spec. = typhoon n. b. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > a storm > violent storm > specific types
hurricane1555
typhoon1588
oliphant1616
elephant1702
elephanta1725
typhon1783
tropical storm1809
tropical cyclone1852
hustler1882
hurricano-
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) III. 186 The storms they call typhons, which are peculiar to the seas of China.
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