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Webster 1913 Edition
Ceres
Ce′res
,Noun.
[L., Ceres, also corn, grain, akin to E.
create
.] 1.
(Class. Myth.)
The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage.
2.
(Actron.)
The first discovered asteroid.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ceres
CERES
,Noun.
1.
In mythology, the inventor or goddess of corn, or rather the name of corn deified.2.
The name of a planet discovered by M. Piozzi, at Palermo in Sicily, in 1801.