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@@ -1751,10 +1751,32 @@ gem or rock
 	most real, the most brilliant.
 		[ Salvador Dali ]
 geryon
-	Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes called the Wild Beast,
-	attacking with his claws and poison sting.  His ranking in
-	Hell is rumored to be quite low.
+	Forthwith that image vile of fraud appear'd,
+	His head and upper part expos'd on land,
+	But laid not on the shore his bestial train.
+	His face the semblance of a just man's wore,
+	So kind and gracious was its outward cheer;
+	The rest was serpent all: two shaggy claws
+	Reach'd to the armpits, and the back and breast,
+	And either side, were painted o'er with nodes
+	And orbits.  Colours variegated more
+	Nor Turks nor Tartars e'er on cloth of state
+	With interchangeable embroidery wove,
+	Nor spread Arachne o'er her curious loom.
+	As ofttimes a light skiff, moor'd to the shore,
+	Stands part in water, part upon the land;
+	Or, as where dwells the greedy German boor,
+	The beaver settles watching for his prey;
+	So on the rim, that fenc'd the sand with rock,
+	Sat perch'd the fiend of evil.  In the void
+	Glancing, his tail upturn'd its venomous fork,
+	With sting like scorpion's arm'd.  Then thus my guide:
+	"Now need our way must turn few steps apart,
+	Far as to that ill beast, who couches there."
+		[ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
+			Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]
 *ghost
+valley of *dea*
 	And now the souls of the dead who had gone below came swarming
 	up from Erebus -- fresh brides, unmarried youths, old men
 	with life's long suffering behind them, tender young girls
@@ -1974,6 +1996,16 @@ hachi
 	time to see Jack running off with his harp.
 		[ Jack and the Beanstalk, from English Fairy Tales,
 		  by Joseph Jacobs ]
+hawaiian*shirt
+	'One of the things he can't do, he can't ride a horse,' he
+	said.  Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden
+	recollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into
+	the gloom.  When he returned, the being called Twoflower was
+	hanging limply over his shoulder.  It was small and skinny,
+	and dressed very oddly in a pair of knee-length britches and
+	a shirt in such a violent and vivid conflict of colours that
+	the Weasel's fastidious eye was offended even in the half-light.
+		[ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
 healer
 * healer
 attendant
@@ -2020,14 +2052,21 @@ heart of ahriman
 	ready to crumble at a touch.  We are fools ---"
 		[ Conan The Conqueror, by Robert E. Howard ]
 hell hound*
-	Hell hounds are fire-breathing canines from another plane of
-	existence brought here in the service of evil beings.  A hell
-	hound resembles a large hound with rust-red or red-brown fur,
-	and red, glowing eyes.  The markings, teeth, and tongue are
-	soot black.  It stands two to three feet high at the shoulder
-	and has a distinct odour of smoke and sulphur.  The baying
-	sounds it makes have an eerie, hollow tone that sends a shiver
-	through any who hear them.
+	But suddenly they started forward in a rigid, fixed stare,
+	and his lips parted in amazement.  At the same instant Lestrade
+	gave a yell of terror and threw himself face downward upon the
+	ground.  I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol,
+	my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out
+	upon us from the shadows of the fog.  A hound it was, an
+	enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes
+	have ever seen.  Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes
+	glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and
+	dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.  Never in the
+	delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more
+	savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that
+	dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall
+	of fog.
+	[ The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ]
 hermes
 	Messenger and herald of the Olympians.  Being required to do
 	a great deal of travelling and speaking in public, he became
@@ -2153,6 +2192,19 @@ hom*nculus
 	And Guenelun answered, contrarious:
 	"That were a lie, in any other mouth."
 		[ The Song of Roland ]
+horn of plenty
+cornucopia
+	The infant Zeus was fed with goat's milk by Amalthea,
+	daughter of Melisseus, King of Crete.  Zeus, in gratitude,
+	broke off one of the goat's horns, and gave it to Amalthea,
+	promising that the possessor should always have in abundance
+	everything desired.
+		[ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ]
+
+	When Amalthea's horn
+	O'er hill and dale the rose-crowned flora pours,
+	And scatters corn and wine, and fruits and flowers.
+		[ Os Lusiadas, by Luis Vaz de Camoes ]
 horned devil
 	Horned devils lack any real special abilities, though they
 	are quite difficult to kill.
@@ -2254,6 +2306,15 @@ ice devil
 	equally at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo,
 	and who can cause the traveller to feel the latter with just
 	a touch of their tail.
+idefix
+	Another clever translation [of the _Asterix_ character names]
+	is that of Idefix.  An _idee fixe_ is a "fixed idea", i.e.
+	an obsession, a dogma.  The translation, Dogmatix, manages to
+	conserve the "fixed idea" meaning and also include the syllable
+	dog -- perfect, given that the character is a dog who has very
+	strong views on the environment (he howls whenever he sees an
+	uprooted tree).
+		[ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
 # takes "imp or minor demon" when specifying 'i'
 imp
 imp or minor demon