Scylla: alternatives and connections

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; h…

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American…

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlanti…

Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style.

Alt. of Classical

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

The side of a thing.

of Coast

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal.

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the ol…

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…

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of g…

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, l…

Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.