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Webster 1913 Edition

Hyads

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Hy′a-des

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Hy′ads

, }
Noun.
pl.
[L.
Hyades
, Gr. [GREEK].]
(Astron.)
A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy
Hyades

Vext the dim sea.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hyads

HY'ADS

,
Noun.
[Gr. to rain; rain.] In astronomy, a cluster of seven stars in the Bull's head, supposed by the ancients to bring rain.

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