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Sirian, a. and n. Astr.|ˈsɪrɪən|
Also 6–7 Syrian.
[f. Siri-us + -an.]
1. Of or belonging to Sirius.
1591Spenser M. Hubberd 5 And the hot Syrian Dog on him [sc. the sun] awayting,..Corrupted had th'ayre. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. iii, The worthier beasts have made their layers, and slept Free from the Syrian Star. 1685Caryll in Dryden's Misc. Poems (1727) I. 306 Thrice happy Swains, guarded from Sirian Beams By sacred Springs. 1874Proctor Expanse of Heaven 246 We must set all the Sirian planets circling much more rapidly than the corresponding members of the solar family. 1885Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 417 A spectrum of the Sirian pattern.
2. Having a spectrum like that of Sirius.
1892Photogr. Ann. II. 138 The former star..is more nearly allied to the Sirian stars in the distribution of energy in its spectrum. 1903A. R. Wallace Man's Place in Universe vi. 130 Other astronomers call the first group ‘Sirian stars’, because Sirius though not the hottest is a characteristic type.
3. absol. as n. A star having a spectrum like that of Sirius.
1900Edin. Rev. Apr. 461 Helium or Orion stars merge imperceptibly into Sirians, Sirian into Solar. |