Eos (eos)

[Gr. ήώς, Attic έως, Doric άώς, Æolic αὐως, the dawn, the east, = L. aurora = E. east: see aurora and east.] 1. In Gr. myth., the godde of the dawn, who brings up the rosy light of day from the east: same as the Roman Aurora. She was represented in art and poetry as a young and beautiful winged maiden. Eos either appears herself in a quadriga, in magnificent C. O. Muller, Manual of Archæol. (trans.), § 400. form, or as the guide of the horses of the sun. 2. [NL.] A genus of lories, by some ranked only as a section of Do micella, co eral species, as E. histrio, nalis, etc. Wagler, 1832. eosin (ē'ō-sin), n. [ Do micella, containing sevhistrio, E. rubra, E. cardi If a transpiring branch placed in a of eosin, the colour, as is well known, gradually spreads over the whole specimen, so that the leaves become discoloured and the wood of the smallest twigs shows a bright pink Proc. of Cambridge Phil. Soc., V. v. 358. colour.