etesian

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.

   “Is it from those etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the Equator […], or from those great dropping perpetual showers […]?”

2. isim A dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.

   “[...] I have in England for ſome years paſt, kept by me an exact table, or Ephemeris both of the Vernall, and Summer Eteſians; but found the VVinds no leſſe Variable in thoſe Months, then at other Seaſons.”