TAURUS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [taurus] in almanacs.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.


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