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–noun

Egyptian Religion. a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.

[Origin: < L < Gk Îsis < Egyptian 'st

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n. Mythology
An ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris.

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The upper Thames River in south-central England in the vicinity of Oxford. The name is used locally and in literature.

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noun
Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of Osiris

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1. A toolkit for implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems, developed at Cornell and now available commercially
2. A dialect of JOSS.
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I"sis\, n. [L., the goddess Isis, fr. Gr. ?.]

1. (Myth.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.

2. (Zo["o]l.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isid[ae], composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.

3. (Astron.) One of the asteroids.

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