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‖ Ursa|ˈɜːsə|
[L. ursa bear (esp. she-bear), Great Bear constellation. Cf. urse, and Pr. and Pg. ursa, It. orsa, Sp. oso.]
1. Astr. = sense 2.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxix. §13 Ne se steorra þe we hatað Ursa ne cymð næfre on þam westdæle. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. met. vi. (1868) 143 Þe sterre yclepid þe bere... Þe same sterre vrsa. 1791Cowper Iliad xviii. 606 The might Of huge Orion, with Him Ursa call'd, Known also by his popular name, the Wain, That spins around the pole.
2. Ursa Major:
a. Astr. The northern constellation also called the Great Bear.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxiii. (Bodl. MS.), Þe taille of þe figure that hatte vrsa maior. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 710 Amongis sterrys..sche is stallyd, And Vrsa Maior is of clerkys callyd. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 22 Being not farre from Vrsa maior, called charles wayne. 1605Shakes. Lear i. ii. 141 My Natiuity was vnder Vrsa Maior, so that it followes, I am rough and Leacherous. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Constellation, Thus, Hevelius, v.g. between Leo and Ursa Major, makes Leo Minor;..under the Tail of Ursa Major, Canes Venatici, &c. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. xi, The huge Winds, that sweep from Ursa Major to the Tropics. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. §341 One of the most striking circumpolar constellations is Ursa Major,..the Plough, or Charles' Wain, as it is otherwise called.
b. † (a) One whose sign or symbol is a bear (see first quot.). Obs. (b) A person (regarded as) having a very bearish disposition or appearance.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 31 There were others that steered and stood at the Helm besides himself [Burleigh], and more Starres in the Firmament of her grace [Q. Eliz.] than Vrsa major, or the Bear with the ragged staffe. 1773Boswell Tour Hebrides 6 Nov., My father's opinion of Dr. Johnson may be conjectured from the name he afterwards gave him, which was Ursa Major. 1788Burns Fête Champetre i, Or him [sc. Jas. Boswell] wha led o'er Scotland a' The meikle Ursa-Major. 1893Crockett Stickit Min. 273 Strong, stalwart, unkemp, John Bradford,..Minister of the Queen, strode over the Galloway heather in his rough home-spun. ‘Ursa Major’ they called him in the House.
3. Ursa Minor, the Little Bear constellation.
[1597G. Harvey Trim. Nashe G 2 b, At last louing like..the two sisters Vrsa maior and Vrsa minor, wee may bee carried vp to heauen together, and there translated into two starres. 1638Chilmead Treat. Globes iii. (Hakl. Soc.) 50 The first [northern constellation] is called in Latine Ursa Minor,..that is to say, the lesser Beare. ]1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Septentrio, A Northern Constellation, more usually call'd Ursa minor, or the little Bear. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 55/1 Ursa major and Ursa Minor..[are] two of the most remarkable constellations of the northern hemisphere. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. §341 The northern celestial pole lies in Ursa Minor. |