Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A'RI-ES
AR-ID'ITY, or AR'ID-NESSAR'I-E-TATE
A'RI-ES, n. [L. from the Celtic. Ir. reithe, or receith; Corn. urz; a ram; W. hwrz, a thrust, a ram.]
The ram, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe, in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
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