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Orcus

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Word	Definition
disnoun	(Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.

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Word	Definition
disnoun	(Norse mythology) Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
osirisnoun	(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.
plutonoun	(film, art) The American cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Norm Ferguson.
erebusnoun	(Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
morsnoun	(Roman mythology) The god and personification of death; the Roman counterpart of Thanatos.
erebosnoun	(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Erebus. [(Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.]
orphicnoun	Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; mystic.
caelusnoun	(Roman mythology) The personification of the sky and heavens. Either the brother-husband or son-and-husband of Terra, with whom he fathered the Titans and the Cyclops. He is the Roman counterpart of Uranus.
underworldnoun	That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice, and particularly those involved in organized crime.
orcessnoun	(fantasy, mythology) A female orc.
uriusnoun	A rare epithet of the Roman god Jupiter.
okeanosnoun	(Greek mythology) Synonym of Oceanus (“god and personification of the world ocean”).
cocytusnoun	A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
oceanusnoun	(Greek mythology) Personification of vast waters or the world ocean. He was the first-born of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia, the god Ωκεανός Ποταμός (Ōkeanós Potamós, “River Ocean”) that encircled the earth. With his sister-wife, Tethys, he fathered all rivers and the Oceanids.
fornaxnoun	(astronomy) A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.
volcanusnoun	(Roman mythology) Synonym of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork.
terminusnoun	The end or final point of something.
saturnnoun	(astronomy) The sixth planet of the solar system, known for its large rings, and until recent times the furthest known; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♄.
orphnenoun	(Greek mythology) A nymph who, with Acheron, had the child Ascalaphus.
uranusnoun	(astronomy) The seventh planet in our solar system, discovered in 1781 by William Herschel.