The west-northwest wind, which blew from Caurus (Argestēs).
“The ground by piercing Caurus seared.”
Thomson: Castle of Indolence, ii. 78.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.