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hiemal, a. Now rare.|ˈhaɪɪməl|
Also hy-.
[ad. L. hiemālis, f. hiem-s winter. Cf. F. hiémal.]
Of or belonging to winter; winter-.
hiemal line (quot. 1635), the tropic of Capricorn, at which the sun arrives at the winter solstice.
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xiv. 18 Or sound of lark aboif þe revenous fowlis, And somersday the nichtis hiemaill. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. 1. xi. (ed. 7) 296 Some [Signs are called] Hyemall or Brumall, as Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. 1635Heywood Hierarch. iii. 126 Betwixt th' Antarticke and the Hyemal lines. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. 2 Awaking and germinating from their Hyemal repose. 1888Scot. Leader 16 May 4 The first minister..delighted in the hyemal sport. |