hiemal, a. Now rare.
(ˈhaɪɪməl)
Also hy-.
[ad. L. hiemālis, f. hiem-s winter. Cf. F. hiémal.]
Of or belonging to winter; winter-.
hiemal line (quot. 1635), the tropic of Capricorn, at which the sun arrives at the winter solstice.
| c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xiv. 18 Or sound of lark aboif þe revenous fowlis, And somersday the nichtis hiemaill. 1594 Blundevil Exerc. iii. 1. xi. (ed. 7) 296 Some [Signs are called] Hyemall or Brumall, as Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. 1635 Heywood Hierarch. iii. 126 Betwixt th' Antarticke and the Hyemal lines. 1694 Westmacott Script. Herb. 2 Awaking and germinating from their Hyemal repose. 1888 Scot. Leader 16 May 4 The first minister..delighted in the hyemal sport. |