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Sphinx - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Sphinx : (noun)
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
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sphinx : \Sphinx\, n. [L., from Gr. sfi`gx, usually derived from
sfi`ggein to bind tight or together, as if the Throttler.]
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(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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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