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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A star easily seen by the naked eye, as opposed to a telescopic star; also, the brightest star of a constellation, or the brightest component of a double or multiple star.

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Examples

  • A small aperture in the wall, opposite the seat in which the person is placed whose profile is taken, conceals a camera lucida, which is placed in an adjoining apartment: and an assistant, by moving a point, connected by a pentagraph with the hand of the automaton, over the outline of the head, causes the figure to trace a corresponding profile.

    On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings (ph) of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

  • And I found that structures in the brain or drawings of the brain I could image with great vividness and then draw almost as if they had been projected by a camera lucida or something like that.

    Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' 2010

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  • A patented diamond cut that created by Tiffany & Company in 1999.

    September 24, 2007