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Monster. An animal which has not the shape of mankind, but, in any part, evidently bears the resemblance of the brute creation, has no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any land, although it be brought forth in marriage; but, though it have deformity in any part of its body, yet, if it have human shape, it may be an heir, Co. Litt. 7 b; 2 Bl. Com. 246....
Ogre
An imaginary monster or hideous giant of fairy tales who lived on human beings hence any frightful giant a cruel monster...
Hydra
A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna in the Peloponnesus represented as having many heads one of which when cut off was immediately succeeded by two others unless the wound was cauterized It was slain by Hercules Hence a terrible monster...
Hippodame
A fabulous sea monster...
Scylla and Charybdis
Scylla and Charybdis, Six headed monster living on opposite sides of the straits of messine; it was difficult to steer clear of one without encountering the other. 'Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis, we proceed to decipher the full import of the definition' [Bangalore Water Supply v. A. Rajappa, AIR 1978 SC 548, para 42] - Here the judge is trying to find the true amplitude of the word 'industry' in section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act without neither reducing the term to an absurdity nor allowing prejudice and class interest to be perpetuated. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Sea monster
Any large sea animal...
Mooncalf
A monster a false conception a mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus...
Monstrosity
The state of being monstrous or out of the common order of nature that which is monstrous a monster...
Monster
Something of unnatural size shape or quality a prodigy an enormity a marvel...
VerbarMonomphalus
A form of double monster in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus...
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