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Hyperborean

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Hy·per·bo·re·an  (hpr-bôr-n, -br-, -b-rn)
n. Greek Mythology
One of a people known to the ancient Greeks from the earliest times, living in a perpetually warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind.
adj.
1. Of or relating to the Hyperboreans.
2. hyperborean
a. Of or relating to the far north; Arctic.
b. Very cold; frigid.

[From Latin Hyperboreus, from Hyperbore, the Hyperboreans, from Greek Huperboreoi : huper-, hyper- + boreios, northern, or Bores, the north wind, the north.]
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Noun1.HyperboreanHyperborean - (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks


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True, other fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood.
While the fiery and magnificent Spaniard, inflamed with the mania for gold, has extended his discoveries and conquests over those brilliant countries scorched by the ardent sun of the tropics, the adroit and buoyant Frenchman, and the cool and calculating Briton, have pursued the less splendid, but no less lucrative, traffic in furs amidst the hyperborean regions of the Canadas, until they have advanced even within the Arctic Circle.
In the winter of '46-7 there came a hundred men of Hyperborean extraction swoop down on to our pond one morning, with many carloads of ungainly-looking farming tools -- sleds, plows, drill-barrows, turf-knives, spades, saws, rakes, and each man was armed with a double-pointed pike-staff, such as is not described in the New-England Farmer or the Cultivator.
 
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