- Ancient goddess - Sea nymphs - A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were
attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses,
sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a
fish. - Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for
similar annelids of other families.
- A goddess - Agriculture expert’s wife ran out of raisins? - Ancient Egyptian goddess - Egyptian deity - Egyptian goddess - Egyptian goddess is seen twice - Egyptian goddess of fertility
- Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous
statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient
Troy. - Hence: That which affords effectual protection or
security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our
civil rights. - A rare metallic element of the light platinum group,
found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a
silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and
untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its
power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a
thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated
circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in
dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid
Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
- Goddess of the hearth - Olden goddess - Type of match - Wax match - Wax-stemmed match - One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical
with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth;
hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it. - An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.