Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chimera \Chime"ra\, n.; pl. {Chimeras}. [L. chimaera a chimera
   (in sense 1), Gr. ? a she-goat, a chimera, fr. ? he-goat; cf.
   Icel. qymbr a yearling ewe.]
   1. (Myth.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as
      having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
      tail of a dragon. ``Dire chimeras and enchanted isles.''
      --Milton.

   2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the
      imagination; as, the chimera of an author. --Burke.

Source : WordNet®

Chimera
     n 1: (Greek mythology) fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's
          head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of
          Typhon [syn: {Chimaera}]
     2: a grotesque product of the imagination [syn: {chimaera}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Chimera
     
        A modular, {X Window System}-based {World-Wide Web} {browser}
        for {Unix}.  Chimera uses the {Athena} {widget} set so {Motif}
        is not needed.  Chimera supports forms, inline images, {TERM},
        {SOCKS}, {proxy server}s, {Gopher}, {FTP}, {HTTP} and local
        file accesses.  Chimera can be extended using external
        programs.  New {protocol}s can easily be added and alternate
        image formats can be used for inline images
        (e.g. {PostScript}).
     
        Version 1.60 is available for
        {(ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera)}.
     
        {Home (http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/)}.
     
        Chimera runs on {Sun} {SPARC} {SunOS} 4.1.x, {IBM} {RS/6000}
        {AIX} 3.2.5, {Linux} 1.1.x.  It should run on anything with
        {X11}R[3-6], {imake} and a {C} compiler.
     
        (1994-11-08)