Taurus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

II. Taurus ·noun The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April;

— marked thus [/] in almanacs.

III. Taurus ·noun 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.

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