Fishes

fishes English Proper noun en proper noun form en astronomy astrology The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces. en Fish en 1899 Richard Hinckley Allen Star Names Star-Names and their Meaning New York 44 G.E. Stechert An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes. en 21 Nov 1926 How old is the zodiac? The Woodend Star Victoria 4 6 Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names. en 14 Nov 1947 Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News Tecoma, Vic. 8 2 For they are so easy to recall if you do it in associated pairs—like the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain, the Fishes and the Scales. en Fish