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CRATER

Volume 7 · 39 words · 1860 Edition

(κρατήρ, a bowl), the mouth of a volcano. See Geology.

(cup), in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, the stars of which in Ptolemy's catalogue are 7; in Tycho's, 8; in Hevelius's, 10; in the Britannic catalogue, 31.