Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Orion"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Orion
Heb. Kesil; i.e., "the fool", the name of a constellation (Job
9:9; 38:31; Amos 5:8) consisting of about eighty stars. The
Vulgate renders thus, but the LXX. renders by Hesperus, i.e.,
"the evening-star," Venus. The Orientals "appear to have
conceived of this constellation under the figure of an impious
giant bound upon the sky." This giant was, according to
tradition, Nimrod, the type of the folly that contends against
God. In Isa. 13:10 the plural form of the Hebrew word is
rendered "constellations."
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Orion \O*ri"on\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, orig., a celebrated hunter
in the oldest Greek mythology, after whom this constellation
was named.] (Astron.)
A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the
stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula
visible to the naked eye.
The flaming glories of Orion's belt. --E. Everett.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Orion
n 1: (Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the
Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then
placed in the sky as a constellation [syn: {Orion}]
2: a constellation on the equator east of Taurus; contains
Betelgeuse and Rigel [syn: {Orion}, {The Hunter}]
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