boreas

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The god of the North Wind.

   “BOREAS, one of the four Cardinal Winds, and one of the Deities of the Heathens, was the Son of Aſtræus and Aurora, and had his Seat at Thrace. Pindar calls him the King of Winds. [Footnote numbers omitted.]”

2. özel isim The north wind personified.

   “Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.”

3. isim The north wind.

   “Whether it is most prudent to expose / Our lovely forms to keenest blasts of boreas”