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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Centaur \Cen"taur\, n. [L. centaurus, Gr ?.]
1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous being represented as half man
and half horse.
2. (Astron.) A constellation in the southern heavens between
Hydra and the Southern Cross.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
centaur
n 1: (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and
half horse
2: a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near
the Southern Cross [syn: {Centaurus}, {Centaur}, {The
Centaur}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of
labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and who
followed the primitive economic maxim, "Every man his own horse." The
best of the lot was Chiron, who to the wisdom and virtues of the horse
added the fleetness of man. The scripture story of the head of John
the Baptist on a charger shows that pagan myths have somewhat
sophisticated sacred history.
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