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Definition of Great Dog

1. Noun. A constellation to the southeast of Orion; contains Sirius.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Dog

Literary usage of Great Dog

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red by Canada Provincial Secretary's Office, Henry Youle Hind, George Gladman (1858)
"THUNDER BAY TO Great Dog I. \ K ' Thunder Bay, 81 — Entrance to the Harbour ... the Great Dog Mountain, 57 — Mueh good land on the flanks of the Great Dog, ..."

2. Legends of Old Honolulu by William Drake Westervell (1915)
"XII THE Great Dog KU KU-ILIO-LOA THE Hawaiian legends frequently unite animal ... The legend of the great dog Ku is somewhat reversed from the usual order. ..."

3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1904)
"In the southwest the Great Dog with the splendid Sirius ("which bright- liest shines when laved of ocean's wave") shows resplendently. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1818)
"... and just going to pass it, having one foot stretched over it, and looking before her, she saw something like a great dog (one ef the dogs of hell) ..."

5. A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy: With Notes, Containing the by John Rowning (1758)
"... or .great Dog-Star Tear; as being reckoned to begin in that Year in which the Dog-Star (or Sothis) ..."

6. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"LESSON CCXXIX THE Two DOG STARS Leading thought—The Great Dog Star, ... Why is Sirius called the Great Dog Star? Is the Little Dog Star nearer to the North ..."

7. Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 by Henry Youle Hind (1860)
"The most remarkable beach and terrace between Lake Superior and Lake Winnipeg, showing an ancient coast line, is undoubtedly that which separates Great Dog ..."

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