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Vega :: Vega (n.) A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra..

Lyra :: Lyra (n.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Lyrated :: Lyrated (a.) Shaped like a lyre, as the tail of the blackcock, or that of the lyre bird..

Lyre :: Lyre (n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.

Lyra :: Lyra (n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega..

Harp :: Harp (n.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre..

Piper :: Piper (n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines..

Pallah :: Pallah (n.) A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok..

Hercules :: Hercules (n.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra..

Aquila :: Aquila (n.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.

Lyrated :: Lyrated (a.) Lyre-shaped, or spatulate and oblong, with small lobes toward the base; as, a lyrate leaf..

Lyrate :: Lyrate (a.) Alt. of Lyrate.

Lyrid :: Lyrid (n.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

Lyraid :: Lyraid (n.) Same as Lyrid.

Dragonet :: Dragonet (n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie..

Psalterium :: Psalterium (n.) The lyra of the brain.

Cygnus :: Cygnus (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan..

Bullyrag :: Bullyrag (v. t.) Same as Bullirag.

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