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See Venus's looking-glass, under Venus.
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A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
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A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
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An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.
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Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
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The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
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Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food.
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One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.
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The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
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Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
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The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
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The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
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An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.
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The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.
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Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus.
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Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
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Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.
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A fabulous deity; according to some, the son of Apollo and Urania, according to others, of Bacchus and Venus. He was the god of marriage, and presided over nuptial solemnities.
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Beautiful.
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Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
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