Obs. [a. OF. aquilon (13th c. in Littré), ad. L. aquilōn-em (aquilo).] The north or north-north-east wind.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., C. 133. Eurus and aquiloun … Blowes bope at my bode.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. vi. 25. Þe felnesse of þe wynde þat hyȝt aquilon.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 62. The thrid collateral vynd is callit aquilon … The vulgaris callis it northest.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. v. 9. Blow … till thy sphered Bias checke Out-swell the collicke of puft Aquilon. [In mod. Dicts.)
