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Definition of Dog star

1. Noun. The brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major.

Definition of Dog star

1. Proper noun. (star) A bluish-white star in the constellation Canis Major; Alpha (?) Canis Majoris. A vertex of the Winter Triangle and the brightest star in the night sky. It is actually a binary star with a white dwarf companion star. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Star

Literary usage of Dog star

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

1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Acoording to their theory, the dog-star or Sirius, ri шк with the sun, added to its heat, and the dog-days bore the combined heat of the dog-star and the ..."

2. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"With the same spirit, and in continuation of her fabulous history, it was said that her soul was transferred after death to Sirius or the Dog-star, ..."

3. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"This is the Little dog star, Procyon, and it has a twin star near it. ... Why is Sirius called the Great dog star? Is the Little dog star nearer to the ..."

4. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1893)
"OF THE RISING OF THE DOG-STAR. Who is there that does not know that the vapour of the sun is kindled by the rising of the Dog-star ? ..."

5. Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms by Heywood Broun (1922)
"XVI THE dog star The Silent Call presents the most beautiful of all male stars now appearing in the ... The dog star has virtues which are all his own. ..."

6. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"... barely crossed it, that this circumstance of our legislating under the pernicious heat of this dog-star may help to explain the extraordinary attention ..."

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