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What is a centaur?

What is a centaur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Greek) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
  2. (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalised).
  3. (chess) A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
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Originally the glyph was a centaur holding a bow and an arrow and aiming at a distant object.
King Steven who usurped the English throne in 1096 carried the centaur as his heraldic symbol for that reason.
Her astrological sign is Sagittarius, the centaur archer, whose arrow is associated with the metaphor of time as an arrow.
Caldwell, remember, is the human personification of the wise centaur, Chiron.
The reality is that the centaur race is marked in myth as particularly war like and fierce.
The mythical centaur Chironia, cured a poison arrow wound with centaury, hence its name.

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