Word Meanings - WATER-BEARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The constellation Aquarius.

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.
AQUARIUS
The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East. A constellation south of Pegasus.
SUBCONSTELLATION
A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.