hyemal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaɪəməl/
Adjective
hyemal (comparative more hyemal, superlative most hyemal)
- Obsolete spelling of hiemal
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
- But, beside vernal, æstival and autumnal, made of flowers, the ancients had also the hyemal garlands; contenting themselves at first with such as were made of horn dyed into several colours, and shaped into the figure of flowers
- 2015, Joshua Cohen, The Book of Numbers, page 519:
- "Break a hunk of ice off the land, crack off a chunk the same proportions as Manhattan Island, then slab Aar's emberous body on out, the winds floating a hyemal pyre melting toward the Pole."
References
- “hyemal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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