Briareus

/ (braɪˈɛərɪəs) /

Greek myth a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans

Derived forms of Briareus

Briarean, adjective

brian, brian boru, briand, briar, briard, Briareus, briarroot, briarwood, bribe, bribery, bric-a-brac

Briareus, with all his fabled faculties, never had such numerous and supple fingers as this creature of human invention.

A Walk from London to John O'Groat's |Elihu Burritt
Indeed, they rushed at him in a way that none but Briareus himself could have satisfied.

Ask Momma |R. S. Surtees
If a man were a Briareus, he should use all his hundred hands at once; at any rate, let everybody employ the two which they have.

Laws |Plato
Coincidence, like some new Briareus, stretches a hundred long arms hourly across the earth.

Greenmantle |John Buchan

In reality the Russian administrators of the higher ranks recall neither Argus nor Briareus.

Russia |Donald Mackenzie Wallace