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Cyclops   /sˈaɪklˌɔps/   Listen
noun
Cyclops  n.  
1.
(Gr. Myth.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna. Note: Pope, in his translation of the "Odyssey," uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
3.
A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.





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... versions. "When we were taken upstairs," says he in one of his letters, "a dirty fellow bounced out of the bed on which one of us was to lie." This incident is recorded in the Journal as follows: "Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. "The Rehearsal" he said, very unjustly, "has not wit enough to keep it sweet"; then, after a pause, "it has not vitality enough to preserve ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... river-beds, Crumbles into fine sand where sunbeams bask— God joys therein. The wroth sea's waves are edged With foam, white as the bitter lip of hate, When, in the solitary waste, strange groups Of young volcanos come up, cyclops-like, Staring together with their eyes on flame— God tastes a pleasure in their uncouth pride. Then all is still; earth is a wintry clod: But spring-wind, like a dancing psaltress, passes Over its ...
— Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher • Henry Jones
... Gould. Ieracidea berigora, Gould. Astur approximans, Vig. and Horsf. Accipiter torquatus, Vig. and Horsf. Milvus isurus, Gould. Elanus axillaris. Circus affinis? Jard. and Selb. Nyctale ? Boobook, Gould. Strix cyclops, Gould. Strix delicatulus, Gould. ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey
... in the night, On the wavering sight I see a dark hull loom; And its light on high, Like a Cyclops' eye, Shines out through the ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... blindness. And Homer, too, after he had described Polyphemus as a monster and a wild man, represents him talking with his ram, and speaking of his good fortune, inasmuch as he could go wherever he pleased and touch what he would. And so far he was right, for that Cyclops was a being of not much more ...
— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero


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