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‖ Sirius Astr.|ˈsɪrɪəs|
Also 6 Ser-, Syrius.
[L. Sīrius, ad. Gr. σείριος.]
A fixed star of the first magnitude, the chief of the constellation Canis Major or Great Dog, and the brightest in the heavens; the dog-star.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. v. (1868) 22 Þe sedes þat..arcturus saw ben waxen heye cornes whan þe sterre sirius eschaufeþ hym. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 294 marg., Serius is otherwyse cauled Canicula, this is the dogge of whom the Canicular dayes haue theyr name. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 75 Thee fields cleene fruictlesse thee dogstar Sirius heated. 1697Dryden æneid x. 382 So Sirius, flashing forth sinister lights, Pale human kind with..famine frights. 1715tr. Gregory's Astron. (1726) I. 512 An Image of the Sun, as bright as Sirius to an Eye given in Position. 1727W. Broome Poems 38 When sultry Sirius..Flames in the Air, and cleaves the glowing Plains. 1756Mason Ode Memory ii. Poems (1774) 20 If Sirius flame with fainting heat. 1847Tennyson Princ. v. 252 As the fiery Sirius alters hue, And bickers into red and emerald. 1883Jefferies Story My Heart i, I prayed..now with the Pleiades, now with the Swan or burning Sirius.
transf.1891Hardy Tess (1900) 83/2 Each gem turned into an Aldebaran or a Sirius—a constellation of white, red, and green flashes, that interchanged their hues with her every pulsation. |