Meaning of nicor | Babel Free

Definitions

A sea monster.

Examples

“The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek⟳ her embraces in the wave⟳ which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]”

“And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have⟳ to deal⟳ with[.]”

““I also had the good luck to kill⟳ nine sea prowlers, or nicors.””

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