1. [n]  evil beast-headed god with high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
2. [n]  (Old Testament) third son of Adam; given by God in place of the murdered Abel

appointed; a substitute, the third son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4:25; 5:3). His mother gave him this name, "for God," said she, "hath appointed me [i.e., compensated me with] another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."