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CYGNUS

Volume 7 · 39 words · 1860 Edition

the swan. See index to ORNITHOLOGY.

the Swan, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, between Lyra and Cepheus. In Ptolemy's catalogue it contains 19 stars, in Tycho's 18, in Hevelius's 47, and in the British catalogue 81.