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hesperus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., poetic for "the evening star," from Latin Hesperus , from Greek hesperos (aster) "western (star)," from PIE *wes-pero- "evening, night" (see vesper ). Hence also Hesperides (1590s), from Greek, "daughters of the West," the nymphs (variously numbered ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evening \E"ven*ing\, n. [AS. [=ae]fnung. See even , n., and cf. Eve .] The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun. In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hesperus is an early music and folk music ensemble. It was founded by Scott Reiss and Tina Chancey in 1979. While they are particularly noted for playing early European music, American folk music and crossovers between them, they often play music from a ...
Usage examples of hesperus.
But considering what became of Ground Station Hesperus, Gomez and Tev are recommending we wear a belt and suspenders both.
The Vaughns took the usual emigrant routing: winged shuttle rocket to the inner satellite station, ugly wingless ferry rocket to the outer station, transshipment there to the great globular cargo liner Hesperus.
Hephaestus (see also Vulcan), 9 Hera (see also Juno), 9 Heracles (see also Hercules), 9 Heraclitus, 506 Herakleon, 592 Hercules, 9, 427, 435, 521, 552, 603 babyhood of, 441 birth of, 70 death of, 380 Juno and, 24 labors of, 58, 187, 237, 437, 621 madness of, 380 Mark Antony and, 333, 375 Nestor and, 122 Theseus and, 56 Troy and, 103, 122 Hermaphrodite, 10 Hermaphroditus, 10 Hermes (see also Mercury), 9 Aphrodite and, 10 Hermia, 19 Hermione, 151 Hero (legend), 49, 466, 571 Hero (Much Ado About Nothing), 546 Hero and Leander, 571 Herod, 325, 329, 356, 366 Herod Agrippa I, 603 Herostratus, 195 Herschel, William, 28, 655 Hesiod, 13, 19, 563 Hesione, 103, 122, 531 Hesperides, 187, 438 Hesperus, 187, 602 Hestia (see also Vesta), 9 Hippolyta, 18, 56, 582 death of, 51 Hippolytus, 18 Hippomenes, 568 Hirtius, 335 History of Rome, 204 History of Travel, 659 Hitler, Adolf, 277, 357 Hobgoblin, 29 Hohenheim, Theophrastus von, 602 Holland, Philemon, 618 Holofernes (Biblical), 433 Holofernes (Love's Labor's Lost), 433 Holy .
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, he said, his teeth chattering so he could scarcely recite, in the midnight and the snow.
If he hadn't been delayed because of an argument with his editor, Park Benjamin, over editorial changes in his poem The Wreck of the Hesperus, set for publication in the World newspaper, he certainly would have been one of the 150 frozen bodies floating in the Sound.
And he would certainly have said I looked like the Wreck of the Hesperus.
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