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in astronomy, a large northern constellation.
“Those stars in the neighbourhood of Hercules are mostly found to be approaching the earth, and those which lie in the opposite direction to be receding from it.”—Newcomb: Popular Astronomy, part iv. chap. i. p. 458.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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