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Medeʹa

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A sorceress, daughter of the King of Colchis. She married Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, whom she aided to obtain the golden fleece.

 

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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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Measure Swords (To)
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
Measure One’s Length on the Ground (To)
Measure Other People’s Corn
Meat, Bread
Mec (French)
Mecca’s Three Idols
Meche (French)
Medamothi (Greek, never in any place)
Médard (St.)
Medea
Medea’s Kettle or Caldron
Medham [the keen]
Mediæval or Middle Ages
Median Apples
Median Stone (The)
Medicine
Medicinal Days
Medicinal Hours
Medina
Mediterranean (Key of the)

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Medea