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A period of from four to six weeks in the summer variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September canicular days so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star Sirius with the sun Popularly the sultry close part of the summer metaphorically a period of inactivity...

Dog Star

Sirius a star of the constellation Canis Major or the Greater Dog and the brightest star in the heavens called also Canicula and in astronomical charts alpha Canis Majoris See Dog days...

Orion

A large and bright constellation on the equator between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye...

Sirius

The Dog Star See Dog Star...

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