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leveret
bluebottle
tench
Newfoundland dog
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Thoth

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Definition:
the Egyptian Mercury, inventor of arts and sciences; represented as having the body of a man and the head of a lamb or ibis.

Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)
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the doctor, his strange Thoth-like profile turned toward his guest, was still lost in rapt contemplation of his treasure.

Edith Wharton. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, vol. 1
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Ladislaw didn't think much of Casaubon's notions, Thoth and Dagon—that sort of thing

George Eliot. Middlemarch
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