orc

orc englanniksi

1. Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the whale. (defdate)

2. A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green. (defdate)

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3. {{quote-text|en|year=1656|author=Samuel Holland|title=Don Zara del Fogo|section=I.1

4. 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:

The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1954|author=JRR Tolkien|title=The Fellowship of the Ring

6. (senseid) A Russian soldier or gangster.

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11. (senseid) A Russian person.

12. an (l)

13. cup, tankard

14. hell

15. a demon

16. piglet

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