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Webster 1913 Edition
Lyra
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1.
(Astron.)
A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called
Alpha Lyræ
, or Vega
. 2.
(Anat.)
The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; – so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.