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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. L.

serpens

serpent.]

(Astron.)

A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; – called also

Ophiuchus

Noun.

A constellation in the northern hemisphere, containing seventy-four stars.

Serpentarius

(astronomy, obsolete) A zodiacal constellation of the northern summer said to depict a man holding a serpent; the serpent is the constellation Serpens.

Ophiuchus — see Ophiuchus