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ˈNeread rare.
Also 6 pl. Nereiades.
[Erron. form of Nereid, after dryad, oread, etc.]
A Nereid; a mermaid.
1555Eden Decades 12 The fayre nimphes or fayeres of the sea (cauled Nereiades). 1656Blount Glossogr., Neread, a Maremaid, or Fish, like a beautiful Woman down to the Girdle, and the rest like a Fish.
attrib.1860C. Sangster Hesperus, etc. 145 Verdurous headlands looking down On Neread shapes. |