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The constellation Taurus. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having horns like those of a bull. Sir T. Browne.

ors appearing November 20-23; -- so called because they appear to radiate from a point in Taurus.

A bull Sir W. Scott.

Having the form of a bull.

Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.

Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.…

Glue made from a bull's hide.

Of or pertaining to bullfights. -- n.

Bullfighting.

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

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

A fabulous monster, half ox, half man.

A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).

A fight in which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

A gentianaceous plant not fully identified. The name is usually given to the Erytheræa Centaurium and the Chlora perfoliata of Europe, but is also extended to the whole genus Sabbatia, and even to the unrelated Centaurea.

Same as Centaur.

To renew or renovate. [R.]