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eel-like aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound

eel-like aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound

An enticing, dangerous woman.

Something which is insidious or deceptive.

A mermaid.

Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.

An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

One of three sea nymphs, - or, according to some writers, of two, - said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.

An enticing, dangerous woman.

Something which is insidious or deceptive.

A mermaid.

An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

One of three sea nymphs, - or, according to some writers, of two, - said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.

See Sirenomelus.

(myth.) One of certain fabulous nymphs in S. Italy who enticed mariners to destruction by sweet music: a fascinating woman: any one insidious and deceptive: an eel-like, amphibious animal, with only one pair of feet.

Pertaining to or like a siren: fascinating.

Fabulous creature who enticed mariners by her song; a fascinating woman; amphibious reptile.

A fabulous sea nymph that lured sailors by song to destruction.

A fascinating, dangerous woman.

A fog horn.

Siren.

Pertaining to a siren; bewitching.

A mermaid; one of a class of scanymphs who were fabled to lure the passing sailor to his ruin by the fascination of their music; an cuticing woman; a woman dangerous from her enticing arts; a lizard of an eel-like form; a sirene.

In anc. myth., the sirens, birds with the faces of virgins, found on the southern coast of Italy, who, by their sweet voices, enticed ashore those who were sailing by, and then killed them; an enticing or alluring woman; an amphibious reptile nearly like an eel.

Pert. to a siren; bewitching; fascinating.

n. [Latin] In mythology, one of three damsels, said to dwell near the Island of Caprea, and to sing with such sweetness that they who sailed by forgot their country and died in an ecstasy of delight; —hence, an enticing or alluring woman.