The Teutons hadSeulainer; the Gaels,Griglean,Grioglachan, andMeanmnach; the Hungarians, who, Grimm says, have originated 280 native names for stars, called the PleiadesFiastikandHeteveny, — this last in FinlandHet’ewa’ne; the Lapps of Norway knew them asNiedgierreg; while the same peo...
491 d: And the author of "The Astronomy", which is attributed forsooth to Hesiod, always calls them (the Pleiades) Peleiades: `but mortals call them Peleiades'; and again, `the stormy Peleiades go down'; and again, `then the Peleiades hide away...' View in context Destroyers, are...
[C16: originally FrenchPléiade,name given by Pierre de Ronsard to himself and six other poets after a group of Alexandrian Greek poets who were called this after the Pleiades1] Pleiad (ˈplaɪəd) n (Classical Myth & Legend) one of the Pleiades ...
The Pleiades are a tight cluster of six visible stars, or seven for those of good eyesight, that are located almost directly across the ecliptic from the bright red star Aldebaran of the Hyades. They are a bright white compact patch of stars with the vaguely triangular shape of the ...
although 'upside down' to my northern hemisphere-conditioned mind, were regarded as a shark in the Straits. The professor nodded. I said that when the nose of the shark touches the horizon at sunset, it is supposed to signify that sharks are breeding and are considered dangerous as they swi...
And we are called as it were goddesses. We change our place all and together, and together we live, sometimes in Lydia, sometimes in Olympus, sometimes in a great mountain." [1. The Pleiades seem to be referred to. Cp. Job xxxviii. 31, in the Revised Version: "Canst thou bind ...
In practice three types of pledges are used. In the so-called normal conventional pledge the pledger transfers the object of the pledge to the pledgee, for example, when a loan is made by a pawnshop. In a pledge of goods in circulation, by virtue of which the pledged property remains ...
The Seven Sister stars of the Pleiades are Maia, Electra, Alcyone, Taygeta, Asterope, Celaeno, and Merope. November is often called the month of the Pleiades. At this time of year, the Pleiades shine from dusk until dawn. In the image below, you’ll see the proximity of the Pleiades ...
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1.Also calledglobe artichoke. a.a tall thistlelike composite plant,Cynara scolymus,native to the Mediterranean region, of which the numerous scalelike bracts and receptacle of the immature flower head are eaten as a vegetable. b.the large, rounded, closed flower head itself. ...