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noun

Lyra n.

(Astron.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega.

(Anat.) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

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Etymology of 'Lyra'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lyra" Quotes from Famous Books

... foco te, Basse, Sabino? iamne lyra et tetrico vivunt tibi pectine chordae? mire opifex numeris veterum primordia vocum atque marem strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae, mox iuvenes agitare iocos et ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... mean anything at all, is simply short for Presbyter, and has no more to do with the word Hiereus than with the word Levite, it is time that some order should be taken both with the book and the Clergy. For instance, in that dangerous compound of halting poetry with hollow Divinity, called the "Lyra Apostolica," we find much versification on the sin of Korah and his company: with suggested parallel between the Christian and Levitical Churches, and threatening that there are "Judgment Fires, for high-voiced Korahs in their day." There are indeed such fires. But when Moses said, ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... 1832. It was during this expedition that my Verses which are in the Lyra Apostolica were written;—a few indeed before it, but not more than one or two of them after it. Exchanging, as I was, definite Tutorial work, and the literary quiet and pleasant friendships of the last six years, for foreign countries and an unknown future, I naturally ...

— Apologia Pro Vita Sua • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... robe floats upon the air; My Lyra hears the dashing oar: Ye floods, oh! speed me to my fair! My soul is ...

— Poems • Sir John Carr

Words linked to "Lyra" : constellation, Vega, Megaderma lyra