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North Star

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North Star: see Polaris Polaris (pōlâr`ĭs) or North Star,
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Polaris

 or North Star

Earth's present northern polestar (the star visible from the Northern Hemisphere toward which Earth's axis points), at the end of the “handle” of the Little Dipper in the constellation Ursa Minor. Polaris is actually a triple star, composed of a binary star and a Cepheid variable. Precession of Earth's axis made the star Thuban, in the constellation Draco, the North Star in ancient Egyptian times; it will cause the North Pole to point toward Vega, in the constellation Lyra, 12,000 years from now.


North Star [′nȯrth ′stär]
(astronomy)

North Star
newspaper supporting emancipation founded by Frederick Douglass. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 607]

North Star
bright star visible to naked eye and nearest to the north celestial pole. [Astronomy: EB, VIII: 79]


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He pointed to where the North Star burned over the Khyber Pass.
I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
Depend upon't, they keep just in front o't all the way from the North Star.
 
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