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Caecias

Caecias proper noun: a wind from the northeast.

Proper noun

Caecias

  1. (poetic) A wind from the northeast.
    • Now from the North / Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar / Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice / And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw, / Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud / And Thrascias rend the Woods and Seas upturn; / With adverse blast up-turns them from the South / Notus and...1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Origin of Caecias

Latin.

Questions about Caecias

What does Caecias mean?
Caecias means a wind from the northeast.
What part of speech is Caecias?
Caecias is a proper noun.

Words near Caecias in the dictionary

  1. caeca
  2. caecal
  3. caecally
  4. caecectomies
  5. caecectomy
  6. Caecias
  7. caecid
  8. caecids
  9. caecilian
  10. caecilians
  11. caeciliid

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