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DELPHINUS

Volume 17 · 41 words · 1810 Edition

Dolphin: a genus of fishes Delphinus, belonging to the order of Cete. See Cetology Index.

Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; whose stars in Ptolemy's catalogue are 10; in Tycho's the same number; in Hevelius's 14; and in Flamsteed's 18.