Boreas
(ˈbɔərɪæs)
Also 4 Borias.
[a. L. Boreas, a. Gr. βορέας north wind.]
The north-wind; the god of the north-wind. Now only in Mythol. and in poet. or humorous personification.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. iii. (1495) 388 Borias the Northern wynde arysyth. c 1450 Henryson Dog, Wolf & Sh., Boreas, with blastis bitterly. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 226 The blustring Boreas did encroche. 1635 Quarles Embl. i. ii. (1718) 10 Blust'ring Boreas blows the boiling Tide. 1718 Pope Iliad ii. 1025 Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding shores. 1863 M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece II. xvii. 193 Boreas had decided otherwise, and blew up against us a terrible north wind. |