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

I wished I was the heathen Briareus then, with an hundred arms.

From Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Reed, Talbot Baines

When the Olympians, as Briareus thinks it necessary to remind you, fled, I was your leader.

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

In this part Giulio painted Briareus in a dark cavern, almost covered with vast fragments of mountains, and the other Giants all crushed and some dead beneath the ruins of the mountains.

From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by De Vere, Gaston du C.

Briareus himself could scarcely have supplied arms to support her unsparing weakness, to hand her parcels and footstools about, to carry her shawls and cushions, and to sort the packets of her correspondence.

From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss