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Typhoonʹ

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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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