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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
HY'ADS, n. [Gr. to rain; rain.] In astronomy, a cluster of seven stars in the Bull's head, supposed by the ancients to bring rain.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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.
