Brewer's: Caurus

or Corus. The west-north-west wind, which blew from Caurus (Argestes).

“The ground by piercing Caurus seared.”

Thomson: Castle of Indolence. ii. 78.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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