Astr. Also 5–7 Aquary. [L. = water-carrier, subst. use of aquārius adj.: see above.] One of the zodiacal constellations, giving its name to the eleventh sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters on the 21st of Jan.
1398. Trevisa, Earth. De P. R., VIII. x. (1495), 314. The sygne Aquarius is the butlere of goddes and yeuyth them a water potte.
c. 1400. Epiph. (Turnb., 1843), 102. When in Aquarye Phebus schad hys lyght.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. i. 141. In Aquary, you see the ♂ brings Rain.
1870. Proctor, Other Worlds, xii. 287. The Water-can of Aquarius.
