Capricorn: Definition and part of speech

Capricorn

  1. n. A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish.
  2. n. The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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