Word Meanings - CANOPUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

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• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• CONSTELLATION
  1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• MAGNITUDE
  That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. 3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. 4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.
• SOUTHERNMOST
  Farthest south.
• SOUTHERNLY
  Somewhat southern. -- adv.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• SOUTHERN
  Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south. Southern Cross , a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing several bright stars so related in position as to resemble
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• SOUTHERNER
  An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
• SUBCONSTELLATION
  A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• DOUBLE FIRST
  A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics. One who gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.