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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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(Myth.)

A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.

Shak.

The Arsenal in Venice; – so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.

Shak.

Adj.

[L.

sagittarius

Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

[supra.] A centaur, an animal half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.

sagittary ‎(plural sagittaries)

a centaur
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V. Scene 5. Lines 15-16:
  the dreadful Sagittary / Appals our numbers
(heraldry) Sagittarius
(archaic) an archer