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单词 orion's hound
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Orion's hound
3. figurative and transferred. Often in phrases, as the hound of hell: Cerberus; Orion's hound: the constellation of the Greater Dog, the dog-star; winged hound: an eagle; Gabriel's hounds: see Gabriel n.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > characters from classical mythology > Cerberus
the hound of hellc888
hell-dog?c1225
Cerberusc1386
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of > of evil > foreboder
Gabriel's houndsc888
Gabriel ratchet?c1475
foredoomer1591
forebodera1796
gabble ratchets1862
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxxv. §6 Þa sceolde cuman þære helle hund, þæs nama..wæs Ceruerus.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 30 His musicks might the hellish hound did tame.
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Forrex v Iarring like two hounds of hell.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C6 Scorching flames of fierce Orions hound.
1792 W. Cowper Let. 29 July (1984) IV. 160 I am hunted by spiritual hounds in the night-season.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad x. 370 War's hosted hounds shall havoc earth no more.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 21 Heaven's winged hound..tears up My heart.
1866 B. Taylor Bath in Poems 49 Press on, ye hounds of life.
1871 H. King tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iv. 534 The Hound of Hell..reared his triple head, and thrice at once Howled greeting.
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Orion's hound
Orion's hound n. now rare Sirius, the Dog Star (chiefly in translations of or allusions to the Iliad).
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the world > the universe > star > kind of star > small star > [noun] > dwarf > Sirius
Siriusc1374
canicularc1420
Dog Star1558
Orion's hound1590
Orion's dog1676
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C6 Scorching flames of fierce Orions hound.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 299 Priam spide The great Greek come, (sphear'd round with beames, and show'ng as if the star, surnam'd Orions hound).
1898 S. Butler tr. Homer Iliad xxii. 361 King Priam was the first to note him [sc. Achilles] as he scoured the plain, all radiant as the star which men call Orion's Hound.
1932 H. G. Lotspeich Classical Mythol. in Poetry Edmund Spenser 94 Sirius, the dog star, is identified with Orion's hound.
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