Briareus

British  

/ braɪˈɛərɪəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans

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Other Word Forms

• Briarean adjective

Example Sentences

Potter is different, and instead of an audience you want a kind of perpetual chaperon, not a Briareus creature with lots of hands to applaud.

From Lady Betty Across the Water by Lowell, Orson

Some of the apostles were found, upon careful search, to be centipedes; and others to have had as many hands as Briareus.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

The giant Briareus, with his hundred hands, is truly in China of a most stupendous and colossal stature, being commonly from fifty to sixty feet in height, and sometimes as tall as eighty feet.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

I cried in deep feeling; I wished I were armed like Briareus of yore, While sharper and sharper the flames kept revealing The sight of my bibliographical store.

From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving

The awful voice of Briareus broke the silence.

From The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield