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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. --Tennyson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Hyades n : (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades; they nurtured the infant Dionysus and Zeus placed them among the stars as a reward [syn: {Hyades}]
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