aeolian

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Of the spirit within him, aeolian, forth leapt

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  1. a member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.

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  1. the ancient Greek inhabitants of Aeolia
  2. a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks
  3. of or relating to Aeolis or its ancient Greek people
  4. of or pertaining to Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds; relating to or caused by the wind

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  • Click and drag to move the map around. aeolian mode wrote: its kind of "case in point" —  [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • IIRC, in southwestern Colorado a roughly one month advancement of seasonal melt dates for mountain snowfields has ben attributed to increased deposition of aeolian dust. —  RealClimate
  • Well except for the occasional 13 year old boy who'd get mixed up in it all …. aeolian mode wrote: —  [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • The pigeons also in Pekin are frequently provided with a very light kind of aeolian harp, which is secured tightly to the two central feathers of their tails, so that in flying through the air the harps sound harmoniously. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873
  • Once the answer to that was furnished by an old he-one who left his tail in my steel trap, but a little later caught himself in a trap-like space in the back of the family aeolian, and ignominiously died there,--a victim of his own error in judging distances without a tape line Tomes might be written about the minds and manners of the brown rat, setting forth in detail its wonderful intelligence in quickly getting wise to new food, new shelter, new traps and new poisons. —  The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
 

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