halcyon

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.

   Renege; affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks / With every gale and vary of their masters,.

2. 2
   adj

   Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

   Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age.

Inherited from Middle English Alceoun, from Latin halcyōn, alcyōn (“kingfisher”), from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn).

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