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1. Scylla
   HMS Scylla was a British Dido Class cruiser of 5450 tons displacement launched in 1939. HMS Scylla was powered by Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 33 knots. Armaments consisted of ten 5.25-inch guns, six mounted in three twin super firing turrets and four aft; sixteen smaller g...
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2. Scylla
   once a sea nymph, she was turned into a sea monster and is identified with the rock Scylla.
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3. Scylla
   [n] - (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait
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4. Scylla
   Scyl'la noun 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 'Betwee...
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5. Scylla
   noun (Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
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6. Scylla
   • (n.) 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 Scylla and Charybdis,` signifying a great ...
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7. Scylla
   (from the article `Nisus`) ...Nisaea. Nisus had a purple lock of hair with magic power: if preserved, it would guarantee him life and continued possession of his kingdom. When ...
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8. Scylla
   Scylla (sil'u) , in Greek mythology. 1. Sea monster. According to one legend Circe, jealous of the sea god Glaucus' love for Scylla, changed her from a beautiful nymph into a horrible doglike creature with six heads and twelve feet; according to another, Amphitrite, jealous of Poseidon's love fo...
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9. Scylla
   In Greek mythology, according to Homer, Scylla was a monster, a daughter of Triton or Poseidon, who lived on a rock in the strait of Messina. She had necks twelve and a half feet long and heads armed with three rows of teeth with which she snatched sailors from passing ships which came too close. In...
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10. Scylla
    In Σκύλλη-->), is obsolete.--> was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow`s range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too clo...
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11. Scylla
    (princess) `Scylla` is a princess of Megara in Greek mythology. She is mentioned by Ovid. As the story goes, Scylla was the daughter of Nisus (Nisos) the King of Megara, who possessed a single lock of purple hair which granted him invincibility. When Minos, the King of Crete, invaded Nisus`s ...
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12. Scylla
    (Prison Break episode) `"Scylla"` is the 58th episode of the American television series Prison Break and the first episode of its fourth season which premiered as a two-hour episode with "Breaking & Entering".<ref name="tfc"/> It was broadcast in th...
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13. Scylla
    (crab) `Scylla` is a genus of journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2008 |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |author=Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie |url=http://...
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