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Charles's Wain

noun

A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major. Synonyms: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Wagon, Wain.

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... "the lack of vigour attendant on the loss of sleep, which is as enfeebling and as distressing as the languor that attends the want of food," they are, to use a homely Scotch expression, "neither to haud nor bind;" the eyes of the young lads being all as brisk, bold, and bright as the stars in Charles's Wain, while those of the young lasses shine with a soft, faint, obscure, but beautiful lustre, like the dewy Pleiades, over which nature has insensibly been breathing a mist almost waving and wavering into a veil ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... lights of Charles's Wain, As the hills of the deep 'ud mount and flee. Then swoop down vanishing cliffs again To the ...

— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

Words linked to "Charles's Wain" : asterism, Great Bear, Ursa Major