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English Dictionary: Hyads by the DICT Development Group
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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.
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