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Volume 12 · 38 words · 1823 Edition

a species of fish. See Callyonimus, Ichthyology Index.

in Astronomy, a constellation in the northern hemisphere. The number of its stars, in Ptolemy's catalogue, is ten; in Tycho's eleven; in Hevelius's seventeen; and in the Britannic catalogue twenty-one.