Kraken [noun]

We shall conclude this short sketch of some of the curiosities respecting fishes, with an account of The Kraken.

Whether the vanishing island Lemair, of which captain Rodney went in search, was a kraken, we submit to the fancy of our readers.

And now Allan Redmain was made master of the Kraken galley, with four score of skilful archers under him.

The Kraken is another notable example of the studies in unnatural history of the ancients.

De Thaun describes something very kraken-like, but he bestows upon it the title of Cetus.

It is easy to recognise in Pontoppidan's description of the Kraken, the form and habits of one of the "Cuttle-fishes," so-called.

It was believed by these sailors that there was a gigantic flat fish in the North Sea, called a kraken.

In the same place the Kraken is mentioned: he had been visible for nearly a fortnight, but no sailor dared go near him.

The complainants must have been the kraken, the griffins, and the serpents.

It matters no more to me that the world is full of charming girls than that the kraken is still at the bottom of the sea.