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Nereid   Listen
noun
Nereid  n.  (pl. E. nereids, L. nereides)  
1.
(Class. Myth.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
2.
(Zool.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.






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... Nereid, or sea-maiden, was won to wife by Peleus. (He wrestled with her on the seashore, and never loosed hold, though she turned into divers strange beings—a lion, and fire, and water, and sea-beasts.) She bore him Achilles, and then, unable permanently to live with a mortal, ...
— The Electra of Euripides • Euripides

... hither, ye Clouds renowned, and unveil yourselves here; Come, though ye dwell on the sacred crests of Olympian snow, Or whether ye dance with the Nereid choir in the gardens clear, Or whether your golden urns are dipped in Nile's overflow, Or whether you dwell by Maeotis mere Or the snows of Mimas, arise! appear! And hearken to us, and accept our gifts ere ...
— Rhymes a la Mode • Andrew Lang

... emerging from the flood, She mew'd to every watery God Some speedy aid to send:— No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirr'd, Nor cruel Tom nor Susan heard— A favourite ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... beholds her rocking on the water, Under the glossy umbrage of her hair, Like pearly Amphitrite's fairest daughter, Naiad, or Nereid,—or Syren fair, Mislodging music in her pitiless breast, A ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood



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