Erebus: alternatives and connections

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed t…

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the…

The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and auth…

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

The nether part of the beak of a hawk.

(of darkness) densely dark; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"

A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…

Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.

The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the g…

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.

A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.

Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul.

A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a righ…

Lower, nether.