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Stella (medicine) and gargoyle (iou)


Stella (medicine)


stella


A star or star-shaped figure.

Origin: Mod. L.


gargoyle (iou)



gargoyle noun. ME.
[Old French gargouille throat, in a spec. sense from the water passing through the mouth of the figure, rel. to Latin gargarizare gargle, from Greek gargarizein, of imit. origin.]
A grotesque carving usu. in the form of a human or animal mouth, head, or body, projecting from the gutter of a building, esp. in Gothic architecture, and usu. acting as a spout to drain off rainwater.
Daily Telegraph Police talked him down from the roof of Amiens Cathedral...He had been balancing..near a gargoyle. transf.: Longfellow A tall brass candlestick with gruesome gargoyles carved on the base. C. Raine An old tormented master..screaming like a gargoyle.