Citations:chimera


 * 1)   (a flame-spewing monster often represented as having two heads, one of a goat and the other of a lion; the body of a goat; and a serpent as a tail).
 * 2)  Any fantastic creature with parts from different animals.
 * 3) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
 * 4) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
 * 5) * 1719 April 25, &#91;&#93;, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; having been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, London: Printed by W[illiam] Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 15864594 ; 3rd edition, London: Printed by W[illiam] Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, 1719,  838630407, pages 186:
 * In the middle of theſe Cogitations, Apprehenſions, and Reflections, it came into my Thought one day, that all this might be a mere Chimera of my own; and that this Foot might be the Print of my own Foot, when I came on Shore from my Boat: This chear'd me up a little too, and I began to perſuade myſelf it was all a Deluſion; that it was nothing elſe but my own Foot; and why might I not come that way from the Boat, as well as I was going that way to the Boat:
 * 1) * 1818, anonymous &#91;&#93;, chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, ; republished as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus, new (2nd) edition, volume I, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1823, , pages 73–74:
 * The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.
 * 1)  A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
 * 2)  An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes.
 * 3) Usually : a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.