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Hyades \Hyades\ n. (Greek mythology)
The seven daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the
Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed
them among the stars as a reward.
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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.
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Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. --Tennyson.
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