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2 words match “FOMALHAUT”

FOMALHAUT n.
A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
SOUTHERN a.
, a constelation of the southern hemisphere (Piscis Australis) containing the bright star Fomalhaut. -- Southern States (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, w…