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‖ Hyades, n. pl. Astron.|ˈhaɪədiːz|
Rarely anglicized Hyads.
[a. Gr. ὑάδες, fem. pl., in popular etymology connected with ὕειν to rain (their heliacal rising being supposed to prognosticate rain), but perhaps f. ὗς, ὕος swine, the L. name being suculæ little pigs. With the anglicized Hyads cf. F. Hyades.]
A group of stars near the Pleiades, in the head of the constellation Taurus, the chief of which is the bright red star Aldebaran.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxv. (Bodl. MS.), Hyades..bene reyny sterres, for in þe risynge of them falleþ moche rayne. 1513Douglas æneis iii. viii. 21 Of every sterne the twinkilling notis he..Arthuris huyfe, and Hyades. 1587Golding De Mornay xiii. 192 The Pleiads and Hiads make the Seasons, the Dogstarre maketh the heat of the Sommer. 1637Heywood Royal Ship 27 Shining like five of the seven Hyades. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIV. 104/2 Aldebaran and the Hyades form the forehead and eye. 1854Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece (ed. 3) 413 The Pleiads, Hyads, and Orion's strength. |