Sphinx : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Sphinx	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Sphinx
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sphinx n an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret (Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body; daughter of Typhon one of a number of large stone statues with the body of a lion and the head of a man that were built by the ancient Egyptians
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sphinx \Sphinx\, n. [L., from Gr. sfi`gx, usually derived from sfi`ggein to bind tight or together, as if the Throttler.] 1. (a) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.