Hunting Dogs

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. the constellation Canes Venatici.

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Example Sentences

There is a star in the Hunting Dogs, known as 1830 Groombridge, which has a velocity beyond what all the attraction of the matter of the known universe could give it.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

Arcturus and Denebola make a triangle with α, also called Cor Coroli, in the Hunting Dogs.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

Chapters on Hunting Dogs and Cheetas, being an extract from the "Kitab'u' l-Bazyarah," a treatise on Falconry, by Ibn Kustrajim, an Arab writer of the Tenth Century.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

If gravitation be sufficient to account for the various motions of the heavenly bodies, we have a perplexing problem in the star known as 1830 Groombridge, now in the Hunting Dogs of Bootes.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White