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Taurus
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [taurus] in almanacs.
2. 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.
3. A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.