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Webster 1913 Edition
Pleiades
Ple′ia-des
(?; 277)
, Noun.
pl.
[L., fr. Gr. ([GREEK])]
1.
(Myth.)
The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
2.
(Astron.)
A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation
Taurus
; – called also the seven sisters
. Job xxxviii. 31.