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A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.
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A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.
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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 to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
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Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
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Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.
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The theory, early advanced in geology, that the successive rocks of the earth's crust were formed by igneous fusion; -- opposed to the Neptunian theory.
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A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
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As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.
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A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
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A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.
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Alt. of Neptunist
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The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
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One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.
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The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World.
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One who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist. Cf. Neptunist.
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The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
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One who adopts the neptunian theory.
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A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
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A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
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The god of the waters; the Indian Neptune. He is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.
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