Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Typhoon’.

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Ty’phon.

Tyr.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Typhoon’.

The evil genius of Egyptian mythology; also a furious whirling wind in the Chinese seas. (Typhoon or typhon, the whirling wind, is really the Chinese t’ai-fun [the great wind].)

“Beneath the radiant line that girts the globe,

The circling Ty’phon, whirled from point to point,

Exhausting all the rage of all the sky,

And dire Ecneph’ia, reign.”

Thomson: Summer.

Ty’phon.

Tyr.

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