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单词 gorgon's head
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gorgon's head
gorgon's head n. (a) the head of Medusa, or a representation of it; (b) ‘a kind of basket-fish; a many-rayed ophiurian, as of the genus Astrophyton’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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1605 Play Stucley in R. Simpson School of Shakspere (1878) I. 242 His eye is as the Gorgons head to me, And doth transform my senses into stone.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xvi. 208 For they seeme like Bug-beares, or Gorgons heads, to the vulgar.
1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon v. 50 This is a sight, that like the Gorgon's head, Runs through my limbs, and stiffens me to Stone.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. xi. 332 Where glared A Gorgon's-head with angry eyes.
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