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Webster 1913 Edition
Scorpio
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Scor′pi-o
,Noun.
pl.
Scorpiones
(#)
. [L.]
1.
(Zool.)
A scorpion.
2.
(Astron.)
(a)
The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [♏] in almanacs.
(b)
A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.