Leviathan
[lə'vaɪəθən]
[lɪ'vaɪəθ(ə)n] or [lə'vaɪəθən]
Definition
(noun.) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament.
(noun.) the largest or most massive thing of its kind; 'it was a leviathan among redwoods'; 'they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks'.
Typed by Frank--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.
(n.) The whale, or a great whale.
Editor: Moll
Definition
n. (B.) a huge aquatic animal in Job xli. here a crocodile; in Isa. xxvii. 1 apparently the great python of Egyptian monuments: anything of huge size: any huge sea-monster as in Ps. civ. 26.
Inputed by Carlo
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale but that distinguished ichthyologer Dr. Jordan of Stanford University maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (Thaddeus Polandensis) or Polliwig—Maria pseudo-hirsuta. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter Thaddeus of Warsaw.
Typist: Tim