hyads

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hyads - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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