Fishes

See also: fishes

English

Proper noun

Fishes

  1. (astronomy, astrology) The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.
    Synonym: The Fish
    • 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and their Meaning, New York: G.E. Stechert, page 44:
      An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes.
    • 1926 November 21, “How old is the zodiac?”, in The Woodend Star, Victoria, page 4, column 6:
      Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.
    • 1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2:
      For they are so easy to recall if you do it in associated pairs—like the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain, the Fishes and the Scales.
  2. plural of Fish
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