1) Biform beast 2) Constellation 3) Constellation, Centaurus 4) Distant minor planet 5) Fabled creature of Thessaly 6) Fairy chess piece 7) Half man and half horse 8) Half-man, half horse 9) Horse race 10) Horseback figure 11) Horseman 12) Legendary beast 13) Man with hooves 14) Man-horse creature 15) Man-horse hybrid
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1) Centaurus 2) Horseman
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A centaur (r; Κένταυρος, Kéntauros, centaurus) or hippocentaur is a mythological creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse. In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings (see below), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso ...
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[1849 ship] Centaur was a 188 ton iron brig built in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1849. She was sunk after striking a reef at the southern section of Marmion Reef on 9 December 1874 while travelling from Champion Bay to Fremantle. All nine crew and four passengers, including noted politician and lawyer Septimus Burt, survived. The 30 metre long br...
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[minor planet] Centaurs are small Solar System bodies with a semi-major axis between those of the outer planets. They have unstable orbits that cross or have crossed the orbits of one or more of the giant planets, and have dynamic lifetimes of a few million years. Centaurs typically behave with characteristics of both asteroids and comets. ...
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[typeface] Centaur is a humanist type family originally drawn as titling capitals by Bruce Rogers in 1914 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The matrices were cut by Robert Wiebking and the type was privately cast by the American Type Foundry. The typeface is based upon several Renaissance models. Rogers` primary influence for the Roman wa...
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• (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross. • (n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
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(from the article `Atlas rocket`) ...Atlas–Agena rocket is used for launching lunar and planetary probes, as well as Earth-orbiting satellites, such as Seasat, where the Agena is also ... Another U.S. upper stage, used with the Atlas and Titan launch vehicles, is Centaur. This was the first U.S. rocket stage to employ cryogenic ......
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(from the article `typography`) ...the Bible ever issued in English; his smaller and less ambitious efforts, often decorated with the typographic ornament at which he was a master, ... ...composition could be used to produce books at once handsome and functional. Among these types were Garamond, based upon a 17th-century French ... [...
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in Greek mythology, a race of creatures, part horse and part man, dwelling in the mountains of Thessaly and Arcadia. Traditionally they were the ... [1 related articles]
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half-human half-horse beings who were children of Ixion and Nephele, an ethereal double of Hera created by Zeus to fool Ixion. The centaurs are wild, lusty, and warlike, although some, like Chiron, are noble. Female centaurs are centaurides.
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A minor planet whose orbit around the Sun lies typically between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune (5 to 30 AU), though it may extend inward almost as far as Mars (as in the case of Damocles, of the Damocloid family) or outward beyond Neptune (as in the case of 1995SN55, which ranges out to about 40...
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(rocket) A powerful upper-stage rocket that can be mated to an Atlas or Titan launch vehicle. The Centaur was America`s first cryogenic rocket, running on a combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and was developed under the direction of Lewis Research Center. It first...
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In Greek mythology, a creature half human and half horse, wild and lawless.
Chiron, the men ...
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Cen'taur (sĕn'tar)
noun [ Latin
centaurus , Greek
Ke`ntayros .]
1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
2. (Astron.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
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Half-men, half-horse creatures that ran wild and unruly.
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A centaur was a beast half horse, and with the head, torso and arms of a man.
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Centaur was an American space rocket first developed in 1958 and the first American space vehicle to utilise liquid hydrogen as a propellant. Centaur was 3414 cm long and 305 cm in diameter. Centaur was first launched in 1962, the vehicle being destroyed 54 seconds after launch after an insulation shield failed and a fuel tank ruptured. Centaur was...
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In Greek mythology, a being with the head, arms, and torso of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. The personification of wisdom and beastliness: the two natures of humankind.
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a mythical being with the head, arms and torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
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Cruiser tank [UK]
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noun (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
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In Greek mythology, a creature half human and half horse, wild and lawless. Chiron, the mentor of the hero Heracles and tutor of the god of medicine Asclepius, was an exception. Their home was said to be on Mount Pelion, Thessaly
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Mythical creature with a horse's lower body and legs, but the chest, arms and head of a man. Centaurs were wild and unruly, but one named Chiron was wise and skilled in healing.
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one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. · (cap.)the constellation Centaurus. · a skillful horseman or horsewoman. · (cap.)a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
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