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A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules.

Additional info about word: HYDRA

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Milton. 2. Hence: A multifarious evil, or an evil having many sources; not to be overcome by a single effort.

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• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• MARSHY
  1. Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny. 2. Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed. Dryden.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• MARSH MARIGOLD
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• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• HERCULES
  A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• MARSH
  A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. Marsh asphodel , a plant with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel. -- Marsh cinquefoil
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.