Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of two constellations, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Great and the Little Bear.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below.
Examples
“Weirdly, Jon and I were talking about the etymology of the German word for bear this morning, and how it comes from the word for brown, instead of the latin root ursus or ursa.”
“First 30 minutes many to the left of the radiant ursa major area”
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“Boswell would have supposed his office of bear-leader to the ursa major a thing to be envied.”
“Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima, harvard, rayssd, linus, m2c}! spdcc! dyer dyer@arktouros. mit.edu”
“= Compare _Tr_ III xi 7-8 'barbara me tellus et inhospita litora Ponti/cumque suo _Borea_ Maenalis ursa uidet' and”
“Your uncle educated you thoroughly in the old Hebrew and Chaldee of the rabbis, and, lo! you are now the _ursa major_ of the wheat market.”
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“My father compounded with my mother under the dragons tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous.”
“Draped in silk and gold-brocaded like the _ursa major_ shone!”
Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse
“Any one else, knowing the character and habits of Johnson, would have thought the same; and no one but Boswell would have supposed his office of bear-leader to the ursa major a thing to be envied.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Johnson, would have thought the same; and no one but Boswell would have supposed his office of bear-leader to the ursa major a thing to be envied.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ursa’.
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Found My Bearings
A list of bear words, mostly real tending fair to fanciful after midday.
grizzly, honey, gummi, teddy, ursidae, polar, caniform, giant panda, dwarf panda, spectacled, short-faced, kodiak and 61 more...

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