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Lion en · NOUN
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A player for National Football League's Detroit Lions.
(Canadian) A player for Canadian Football League's B.C. Lions.
A player for the England football team.
(qualifier:Australian rules football) A player or supporter of the Brisbane Lions.
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Lion en · PROPN
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The constellation and zodiacal sign Leo.
The Lion reigneth in the Back, Sides, Bones, Sinews and Griſles. 1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 19:
Those stars said to belong to the Ram might as well be supposed to belong to the Bull or the Lion. 1862, [Frances Rolleston], Mazzaroth, or, The Constellations, London: Rivingtons, page 15:
Now, if you went down into the forest where the spring gum-tips gleam gold and ruby in whatever sunshine, Heaven thinks fit to apportion at this season to residents of the Dandenongs (who surely were all born Aquarians) what sign of the Zodiac would you expect to meet? Not Leo the Lion or Capricornus the Goat, though the Italians keep a few Capricorns for cheeses but chain them up. The goats I mean. 1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2:
The constellations of the Lion and the Scorpion, there can be no doubt, were appropriate star marks for the summer and autumn seasons, when the spring equinoctial point was in the Bull. 1903, Emmeline M. Plunket, Ancient Calendars and Constellations, London: John Murray, page 66:
The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins,
And next the Crab, the Lion shines,
The Virgin and the Scales;
The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat,
The Man that carries the Water-pot,
And Fish with glittering scales. 1893, E. W. Bullinger, Witness of the Stars, London: The author, page 16:
[T]he Lion is of course one of the most prominent constellations of the Zodiac, and its conquest is obviously the work of a Saviour of mankind. 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 49:
"'Tis the simplest thing in the world, sir," said Sheridan. "Virgo, the Maiden, follows Leo, the Lion, in society, as well as in the Zodiac." 1905 March 4, The Australasian, Melbourne, page 49, column 4:
‘The Sign of the Lion is hidden from me,’ he said to Touchwood. 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67: