a. [f. L. ēō-us, a. Gr. ἠῷος, f. ἠώ-ς dawn + -AN.] Of or pertaining to the dawn; eastern.
a. 1822. Shelley, Liberty, xv. The morning-star Beckons the Sun from the Eoan wave.
1827. Sir H. Taylor, Isaac Comnenus, III. v. 129 (D.). The Mithra of the middle world, That sheds Eoan radiance on the West.
