Gorgon

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Gorgon m

1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Bovidae – blue wildebeests, now Connochaetes taurinus. [from 1914]

• Connochaetes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Connochaetes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Connochaetes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Gorgon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Gorgon

1. (obsolete) Synonym of Demogorgon (“a pagan god or demon”).
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:

     Uillain I tel thee, were that Tamburlaine
     As monſtrous as Gorgon, prince of Hel,
     The Souldan would not ſtart a foot from him.

Gorgon

1. alternative form of gorgon