PLEIADS, noun ple'yads. [Latin Pleiades; Gr. to sail, as the rising of seven stars indicated the time of safe navigation.] In astronomy, a cluster of seven stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. The Latins called them Vergilioe, from ver, spring, because of their rising about the vernal equinox.
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