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Ple"ia*des (?; 277), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. (&unr_;)] 1. (Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
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2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus; -- called also the seven sisters. Job xxxviii. 31.
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&hand_; Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was considered by M&ä;dler the central point around which our universe is revolving, but such a notion has been thoroughly discounted by modern observations. 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.
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