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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

O'GRE,
O'GRESS, n. An imaginary monster of the East.
O'GRESS, n. In heraldry, a cannon ball of a black color.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre]
2: (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, probably ultimately from Latin Orcus, god of the underworld Date: 1713 1. a hideous giant of fairy tales and folklore that feeds on human beings ; monster 2. a dreaded person or object • ogreish adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (fem. ogress) 1 a man-eating giant in folklore etc. 2 a terrifying person. Derivatives: ogreish adj. (also ogrish). Etymology: F, first used by Perrault in 1697, of unkn. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ogre O"gre, n. [F., fr. Sp. ogro, fr. L. Orcus the god of the infernal regions; also, the lower world, hell.] An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster. His schoolroom must have resembled an ogre's den. --Maccaulay.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ogres) If you refer to someone as an ogre, you are saying in a humorous way that they are very frightening. Bank managers–like tax inspectors–do not really like being thought of as ogres. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Monster, spectre, goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear, frightful object.

Moby Thesaurus

Argus, Briareus, Cerberus, Charybdis, Cyclops, Dracula, Echidna, Frankenstein, Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Loch Ness monster, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Talos, Typhon, Wolf-man, bogey, bogeyman, brute, bugaboo, bugbear, cad, centaur, chimera, cockatrice, demon, dragon, drake, fee-faw-fum, fiend, frightener, ghost, ghoul, giant, griffin, hippocampus, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, man-eater, mermaid, merman, monster, nightmare, nixie, ogress, phantom, revenant, roc, sadist, salamander, satyr, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, scoundrel, sea horse, sea serpent, siren, specter, succubus, terror, troll, unicorn, vampire, villain, werewolf, windigo, xiphopagus, zombie