Also 4 Borias. [a. L. Boreas, a. Gr. βορέας north wind.] The north-wind; the god of the north-wind. Now only in Mythol. and in poet. or humorous personification.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XI. iii. (1495), 388. Borias the Northern wynde arysyth.
c. 1450. Henryson, Dog, Wolf & Sh. Boreas, with blastis bitterly.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Feb., 226. The blustring Boreas did encroche.
1635. Quarles, Embl., I. ii. (1718), 10. Blust’ring Boreas blows the boiling Tide.
1718. Pope, Iliad, II. 1025. Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding shores.
1863. Mary Howitt, trans. F. Bremer’s Greece, II. xvii. 193. Boreas had decided otherwise, and blew up against us a terrible north wind.
