1) Moon of Jupiter 2) Woman in Greek mythology
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Herse (Ἕρση `dew`) is a figure in Greek mythology, daughter of Cecrops, sister to Aglauros and Pandrosos. According to the Bibliotheca, when Hephaestus unsuccessfully attempted to rape Athena, she wiped his semen off her leg with wool and threw it on the ground, impregnating Gaia. Athena wished to make the resulting infant Erichthonius immo.....
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[moon] Herse (iː {Respell|HUR|see}; Greek: Ἕρση), or Jupiter L, previously known by its provisional designation of S/2003 J 17, is a natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered on 8 February 2003 by the astronomers Brett J. Gladman, John J. Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit, and Lynne Allen. It was named after Herse `dew`, a daughter of ...
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• (n.) A funeral ceremonial. • (n.) See Hearse, a carriage for the dead. • (n.) A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy. • (v. t.) Same as Hearse, v. t.
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(from the article `Aglauros`) ...poet Ovid (Metamorphoses Book II), however, related that Aglauros was turned to stone by the god Mercury in retribution for her attempt to ...
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Herse (hẽrs)
noun [ French
herse harrow, portcullis, Old French
herce , Late Latin
hercia , Latin
hirpex , gen.
hirpicis , and
irpex , gen.
irpicis , harrow. The Late Latin
hercia signifies also a kind of candlestick in the form of a har...
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Herse transitive verb Same as
Hearse ,
transitive verb Chapman. Found on
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A herse is a frame set over the coffin of a person deceased, and covered with a pall. It was usually of light wood-work, and appears in many instances to have been part of the furniture of the church, to be used when occasion required. There is a brass frame of a similar kind over the effigy of Richard, earl of Warwick, in the Beauchamp chapel at W...
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A herse or hearse was oriiginally a framework whereon lighted candles were placed at the obsequies of distinguished persons. The funeral herse of the middle ages was a temporary canopy
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In fortifications, a herse was a kind of portcullis, with iron bars like a harrow, set in with iron pikes, placed above gates and lowered to impede the advances of an enemy.
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Herse is another term for a portcullis, so called from its resemblance to a framework termed hercia, fashioned like a harrow, whereon lighted candles were placed on the obsequies of distinguished persons. The entrance gateways of many castles were defended by two portcullises, as at Warwick castle, where one of them was lowered every night, for gre...
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