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Aries

Aries

1. (Science: astronomy) The Ram; the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the 21st of march. A constellation west of taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

2. A battering-ram.

Origin: L.


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