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Sagittarius

noun
1.
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius.  Synonym: Archer.
2.
A large zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Scorpius and Capricornus.
3.
The ninth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about November 22 to December 21.  Synonyms: Archer, Sagittarius the Archer.
4.
Type genus of the Sagittariidae.  Synonym: genus Sagittarius.



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... too in countries remote from each other. The signs of the Zodiac are almost as old as the stars themselves; that is, as old as the time when the stars were first beheld of human eyes. Amongst them there is the Archer—Sagittarius—the chase in the shape of man; greatest and grandest of all the constellations is Orion, the mighty hunter, the giant who slew the wild beasts by strength. There is no assemblage of stars so brilliant as those which compose the outline of Orion; the Hunter takes ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies
... of rain.* (* I have not observed any direct relation between the scintillation of the stars and the dryness of that part of the atmosphere open to our researches. I have often seen at Cumana a great scintillation of the stars of Orion and Sagittarius, when Saussure's hygrometer was at 85 degrees. At other times, these same stars, considerably elevated above the horizon, emitted a steady and planetary light, the hygrometer being at 90 or 93 degrees. Probably it is ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt


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