Hyades
noun
a group of stars comprising a moving cluster in the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the approach of rain when they rose with the sun.
Hyads
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a variation of
Hyades.
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Hyades, hī′a-dēz, Hyads, hī′adz, n. a cluster of five stars in the constellation of the Bull, supposed by the ancients to bring rain when they rose with the sun.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The wild-fowl, flying in V-formed lines, like Hyads astray, flickered on the salver of the river like house-flies.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
And in all eyes King Pedro was the king Of cavaliers; as in a full-gemmed ring The largest ruby, or as that bright star Whose shining shows us where the Hyads are.
From How Lisa Loved the King by George Eliot
This lies between the atmospheres of the Pleiads and the Hyads, though in point of altitude it is considerably lower than the Zodiac.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
He marks the stars, that keep Their courses, gliding through the silent sphere, Arcturus, rainy Hyads and each Bear, And, girt with gold, Orion.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
