Hyades

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:14:08

Hy"a*des (?), Hy"ads (?), n.pl. [L. Hyades, Gr. .] 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.

 

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