Neptune

·noun The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.

II. Neptune ·noun The remotest known planet of our system, discovered — as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris — by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.