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100-eyed monster
Answer for the clue "100-eyed monster ", 5 letters:
argus
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Argus was a Norwegian debate show hosted by Mona Høiness , that aired on TV3 . In the summer of 1993 Høiness threatened to quit her job as a host in protest of TV3 airing the show Bikini , an American show featuring scantily-clad women on a podium surrounded ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hundred-eyed giant of Greek mythology, late 14c., from Latin, from Greek Argos , literally "the bright one," from argos "shining, bright" (see argent ). His epithet was Panoptes "all-eyes." After his death, Hera transferred his eyes to the peacock's tail. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Argus \Ar"gus\, prop. n. [L. Argus, Gr. ?.] (Myth.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail. One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful. ...
Usage examples of argus.
Clancy happened to be standing in front of the Argus apartment house, remained temporarily a mystery.
He lived there with his niece, Paula Argus, and one servant, a house-man butler named Elmo Tollen.
MAYFAIR was not in the Argus apartment, which was full of detectives from the homicide detail, an assistant district attorney, photographers, print men.
Obviously Carlton Argus had taken pride in a spectacular background, since there were plants other than orchids which reached nearly to the ceiling.
Doc Savage thought, would be after Elmo Tollen, the Argus butler, had entered the house.
In this space lay the body of the Argus butler, Elmo Tollen, who could hardly be anything but dead with the knife in his chest where it was.
And we would also like to know who killed Carlton Argus and his butler and why, and why you were going to kill Pat.
He proceeded to describe the murdered Argus butler with unmistakable accuracy.
Carlton Argus and Elmo Tollen, and also John Holland, Jeff Morgan, their prisoner the tall man and Paula Argus.
He went on, passing the Argus apartment house, wishing he could go inside, but not daring to.
The remaining man was recognizable from the description Monk had given, and from the photograph, as the fake butler, McFellen, who had led Monk into the murder frameup at the Argus apartment.
I put you in the orchid-culture room, and Elmo Tollen was in the greenhouse part with the body, and it was his voice which spoke to you to make you think Carlton Argus was alive.
I was at the Argus apartment when the doctor was killed, but I was with the girls.
Yes, Argus would want her to worry about what he might have shared with her employer.
Not content with running the rental plate and billing for his car, she had spent the past hour acquiring a dossier on the renter, Marvin Argus from Chicago, who now smiled at her from the glowing screen.