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One of the fallen angels cast out of heaven. The word means a fierce lion. (Milton: Paradise Lost, vi. 371.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.