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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Acheron \Ach"e*ron\, n. [L., fr Gr ?.] (Myth.)
A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also the
infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it
was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Acheron
n : (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of
the dead were carried by Charon [syn: {Acheron}, {River
Acheron}]
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