[med. or mod.L. fem. of vindēmiātor vintager, star in Virgo, f. L. vindēmiāre: see VINDEMIATE v.]
1. A bright fixed star in the constellation Virgo.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Vindemiatrix, a Fixed Star of the third Magnitude, in the Constellation Virgo, whose Longitude is 185 degr. 23 min. Latitude 16 degr. 15 min. [Hence in later Dicts.]
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Virgo, Stars in the Constellation Virgo [include]…, Upper of North Wing, Vindemiatrix.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 373/1. Of the bright stars in this triangle, Vindemiatrix is the one nearest to the line joining Arcturus and β Leonis.
1860. Olmsted, Mech. Heav., 347. Twenty degrees north of Spica, is Vindemiatrix, in the arm of Virgo, a star of the third magnitude.
2. ‘A female vintager’ (Bailey, 1721).
