Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Achilles"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Achilles
n : a mythical Greek hero of Homer's Iliad; a foremost Greek
warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his
mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a
magical river but the heel by which she held him remained
vulnerable--his "Achilles' heel" [syn: {Achilles}]
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