Usually means: Mythical bird, calm, peaceful seas.
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  1. alcyon: Merriam-Webster
  2. Alcyon, alcyon: Wordnik
  3. alcyon: Wiktionary
  4. Alcyon: Dictionary.com
  5. Alcyon (cycling team), Alcyon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Alcyon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. alcyon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Alcyon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. alcyon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. Alcyon: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  11. alcyon: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Alcyon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. alcyon: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (Alcyon)

noun:  Archaic form of halcyon. [(poetic) A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.]

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