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Webster 1913 Edition
Taurus
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1.
(Astron.)
(a)
The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; – marked thus [♉] in almanacs.
(b)
A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
2.
(Zool.)
A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Taurus
TAUR'US
,Noun.