EAGLE, in Astronomy, is a constellation of the northern hemisphere, having its right wing contiguous to the equinoctial. See AQUILA.
There are also three several stars, particularly denominated among the Arab astronomers, nasr, i. e. "eagle." The first, nasr sohail, the "eagle of Canopus," called also starech jemen, the star of Arabia Felix, over which it is supposed to preside; the second, nasr althair, the "flying eagle;" and the third, nasr alveke, the "resting eagle."