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Great Dog
Great Dog n. [after post-classical Latin Canis major (see Canis Major n. at Canis n. 1)] Astronomy the constellation Canis Major; (also) the brightest star in this constellation, Sirius; cf. Dog Star n. 1.
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?1530 tr. Compost of Ptholomeus xxix. sig. k.iiv There ryseth vnder it in the .viii. degree a sterre fyxed that Astronomyers calle Alhabor (that is to saye) of the great dogge.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. vi. f. 289v The Meridian altitude of the great dogge called Canis maior.
1676 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. (ed. 3) 220 Canis Major, the Great Dog, it consisteth of 18 Stars.
1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 503 However remarkable..it may be, that so noted and lasting a star as the Great Dog should have changed its colour, yet at least five different writers affirm it.
1956 H. P. Wilkins Guide to Heavens 21 The Bull, Orion and the Great Dog are now all in the west, as are also Andromeda and the Ram or Aries.
2001 UFO Mag. Jan. 67/3 The southern shaft..was aimed at the bright star Sirius (Alpha Canis Major) in the constellation of the Great Dog.
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