/ · 1894 Brewer’s · T · Typhoon
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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 tʹai-fun [the great wind].)
“Beneath the radiant line that girts the globe,
The circling Tyʹphon, whirled from point to point,
Exhausting all the rage of all the sky,
And dire Ecnephʹia, reign.”
Thomson: Summer.
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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.
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