Word Meanings - AURIGA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Related words: (words related to AURIGA)

• BRIGHT
  See I
• NORTHERNMOST
  Farthest north.
• NORTHERN
  1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
• GEMINI
  A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about May 20th.
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• 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.
• WAGONER
  The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa. (more info) 1. One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
• NORTHERNER
  1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner.
• BRIGHTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
• PERSEUS
  A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• CAPELLA
  A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.
• NORTHERNLY
  Northerly. Hakewill.
• GEMINIFLOROUS
  Having the flowers arranged in pairs.
• HEMISPHERE
  1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center. 2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture. 3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere. He died . . . mourned
• BRIGHT'S DISEASE
  An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved,
• CAPELLANE
  The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. Fuller.
• CHARIOTEER
  A constellation. See Auriga, and Wagones. (more info) 1. One who drives a chariot.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• SUBCONSTELLATION
  A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• EYEBRIGHT
  A small annual plant , formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.