单词 | typhon |
释义 | Typhonn.1 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). typhonn.2 ? Obsolete. a. A whirlwind, cyclone, tornado; a violent storm of wind, a hurricane. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1?1592n.21555 |
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