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sphinx |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sphinx \Sphinx\, n. [L., from Gr sfi`gx, usually derived from sfi`ggein to bind tight or together, as if the Throttler.] 1. a In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sphinx n 1: an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret 2: (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon [syn: {Sphinx}] 3: one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
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