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Scorpion en · ADJ

Etymology

From the animal scorpion, from Latin scorpio (“scorpion”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to the Scorpio star sign.

Scorpion en · NOUN

Etymology

From the animal scorpion, from Latin scorpio (“scorpion”).

Meanings

1. Someone with the Scorpio star sign.
   • No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence of the Water-carrier and the Archer. No nylons for Scorpions. 1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2:

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Scorpion en · PROPN

Etymology

From the animal scorpion, from Latin scorpio (“scorpion”).

Meanings

1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Scorpius.
   • ‘I have it!’ said the excited magician. ‘I have the Sign of the Scorpion!’ 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 112:
   • Ras Alhague is […] nearly due north of Lesath, in the tail of the Scorpion, at the distance of 51 degrees: […] 1821, Thomas Kerigan, The young navigator's guide to the sidereal and planetary parts of nautical astronomy, page 73:
   • Smiling proudly, he glanced outward at the country, which was still invisible except as a dark movement in the darkness; then upwards at the sky, where the stars of the sprawling Scorpion had begun to pale. 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 123:
   • The Crab and the Scorpion much resemble each other, as indeed they do in many other instances, the former being a reduplication of the latter. 1882, Robert Brown, On a German Astronomico-astrological Manuscript, and on the Origin of the Signs of the Zodiac, London: J.B. Nichols and Sons, page 8:
   • 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:
   • The Scorpion keepeth the Bladder, Buttocks, and other privatives [sic] of Man or Woman. 1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 20:
   • And now thir way to Earth they had descri'd, / To Paradise first tending, when behold / Satan in likeness of an Angel bright / Betwixt the Centaure and the Scorpion stearing / His Zenith, while the Sun in Aries rose […] 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

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