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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pleiades  \Ple"ia*des\  (?;  277),  n.  pl  [L.,  fr  Gr  (?)] 
  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.  --Job  xxxviii  31. 
 
  Note:  Alcyone,  the  brightest  of  these  a  star  of  the  third 
  magnitude,  was  considered  by  M["a]dler  the  central 
  point  around  which  our  universe  is  revolving,  but  there 
  is  no  sufficient  evidence  of  such  motion.  Only  six 
  pleiads  are  distinctly  visible  to  the  naked  eye,  whence 
  the  ancients  supposed  that  a  sister  had  concealed 
  herself  out  of  shame  for  having  loved  a  mortal, 
  Sisyphus. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Pleiades 
  n  1:  (Greek  mythology)  7  daughters  of  Atlas  and  half-sisters  of 
  the  Hyades;  placed  among  the  stars  to  save  them  from  the 
  pursuit  of  Orion  [syn:  {Pleiades}] 
  2:  a  star  cluster  in  the  constellation  Taurus  [syn:  {Pleiades}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Pleiades 
  Heb.  kimah,  "a  cluster"  (Job  9:9;  38:31;  Amos  5:8,  A.V.,  "seven 
  stars;"  R.V.,  "Pleiades"),  a  name  given  to  the  cluster  of  stars 
  seen  in  the  shoulder  of  the  constellation  Taurus. 
 




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