Word Meanings - CHARYBDIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to CHARYBDIS)

• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• ITALIAN
  Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• PERSONIFIER
  One who personifies.
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• WHIRLPOOL
  1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular
• SCYLLARIAN
  One of a family of macruran Crustacea, remarkable for the depressed form of the body, and the broad, flat antennæ. Also used adjectively.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• SCYLLAEA
  A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest. Note: In color and form these mollusks closely imitate the fronds of sargassum and
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• ITALIANISM
  1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism. 2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• ITALIANATE
  To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. Ascham.
• SCYLLA
  A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between
• IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
  The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
• SEA MONSTER
  Any large sea animal.
• DISCOAST
  To depart; to quit the coast of anything; to be separated. As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.
• ACCOAST
  To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
• GILA MONSTER
  A large tuberculated lizard native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
• ROLLER COASTER
  An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.
• SEACOAST
  The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.