Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hyades"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hyades \Hy"a*des\, Hyads \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 Hyaned Vext the dim
sea. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Hyades
n : (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of
the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus
placed them among the stars as a reward [syn: {Hyades}]
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