Word Meanings - GORGONEION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.

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• GORGONIACEA
  One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c Note: The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony , as in the red coral of commerce,
• CARVOL
  One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
• GORGONZOLA
  A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan.
• CARVE
  1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by
• GORGONEAN
  See 1
• CARVEN
  Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
• GORGONIA
  1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume , and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis. 2. Any slender branched gorgonian.
• CARVEL
  1. Same as Caravel. 2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• CARVELBUILT
  Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
• GORGON
  One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. 2. Anything very ugly or horrid. Milton.
• CARVACROL
  A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway .
• GORGONACEA
  See GORGONIACEA
• GORGONEION
  A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.
• IMITATIONAL
  Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
• CARVIST
  A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.
• CARVENE
  An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
• GORGONIZE
  To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.
• GORGONIAN
  Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific. The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.
• CARVER
  1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp 2. One who carves or divides meat
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• DEMOGORGON
  , A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon.
• NONLIMITATION
  Want of limitation; failure to limit.
• FORCARVE
  To cut completely; to cut off. Chaucer.