 | Charles C. Parker - 1914 - 456 pages
...Che'mos. The Moabitish god of war. Chlmae'ra. The monster slain by Bellerophon, with the head and breast of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent. It used to vomit fire. Chl'ron. The centaur who taught Achilles hunting, music, and the use... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1914 - 140 pages
...502. Toy: trifle. 509. Sadly : seriously. 517. Dire Chimeras. The Chimera was a fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and tht> hind part of a dragon. Bellerophon, riding the winged Pegasus, finally managed to slay the Chimera.... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1996 - 172 pages
...ideas, at any rate, is not distinct from the second. For the idea of a chimera is simply the idea of the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a serpent, out of which the mind puts together one idea, although the individual elements are adventitious.... | |
 | Jon R. Stone - Foreign Language Study - 1996 - 224 pages
...rest charismata: (theo.) spiritual gifts chimaera: a mythical fire-breathing creature usually depicted with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and whose tail is that of a serpent chorea scriptorum: writer's cramp chorus [to dance in a circle]: in... | |
 | Gary Cziko - Psychology - 1997 - 404 pages
...to create brand new organisms, such as the fire-breathing chimera of Greek mythology, which combined the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snake? Unfortunately, manipulating chromosomal DNA is a more difficult affair. For certain plants,... | |
 | A. M. van Harten - Science - 1998 - 372 pages
...somatic tissues is called a chimera. The name chimera has been taken from the Greek mythological being with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a dragon. Winkler (1907) proposed to apply the word 'chimera' in plants for a specific phenomenon, and according... | |
 | Kenneth John Atchity, Rosemary McKenna - History - 1998 - 488 pages
...Messina across from the cave of the monster Scylla; confronted by Homer's Odysseus. Chimaera. A monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. Chios. Greek island whose wines were favored by the Romans. Chrysanthius. Neoplatonic philosopher;... | |
 | Heike Brockmann - Travel - 1998 - 264 pages
...mountain. The ancients believed this to be the final resting place of the Chimera, the fire-breathing beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a snake, which was killed by the hero Bellerophon with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus. Two kilometers... | |
 | Heike Brockmann - Travel - 1998 - 264 pages
...mountain. The ancients believed this to be the final resting place of the Chimera, the fire-breathing beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a snake, which was killed by the hero Bellerophon with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus. Two kilometers... | |
 | Heike Brockmann - Travel - 1998 - 264 pages
...The ancients be-lieved this to be the final resting place of the Chimera, the fire-breathing beast with the head of a lion, the body of a goat and the tail of a snake, which was killed by the hero Bellerophon with the aid of the winged horse Pegasus. Two kilometers... | |
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CHIMERA; a fabulous monster, breathing flames, with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon, which laid waste the fields of Lycia, and was at last destroyed by Bellerophon. 
