See Also: hexylic(medicine)

gorgon (iou) and hexylic (medicine)


gorgon (iou)



gorgon noun & adjective. Also Gorgon. LME.
[Latin Gorgo, Gorgon- from Greek Gorgo, from gorgos terrible.]
A. noun.
Greek Mythology. Each of three sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa (the only mortal one), who had snakes for hair and whose gaze, on meeting that of another, turned the beholder to stone. LME.
b. = DEMOGORGON. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
A person resembling a gorgon in manner or appearance; esp. an ugly or terrifying woman. E16.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Petrifying, terrible. L16.
J. Fowles Other passengers..were rebuffed by that Gorgon stare..the English have so easily at command.

hexylic (medicine)


hexylic
<chemistry> Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.

Source: Websters Dictionary