Archer

Definitions

1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Sagittarius.
2. A surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a bowman.
3. One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.
4. The bishop in chess.
   historical, obsolete
5. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
6. A suburb of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia.
7. A number of places in the United States:
8. A city in Alachua County, Florida, named after James T. Archer.
9. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Idaho.
10. An unincorporated community in Curran Township, Sangamon County, Illinois.
11. A minor city in O'Brien County, Iowa, named after townsite owner John Archer.
12. A census-designated place in Merrick County, Nebraska, named after Robert T. Archer.
13. A township in Harrison County, Ohio.
14. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Tennessee, named after Archer Beasley.
15. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Equivalents

Examples

“The Balance shows redemption’s need⟳; The Scorpion wounds He must endure; The Archer tells His coming sure; The Goat, His death in sacrifice[.]”

“In the Assyrian Standard [...] we see⟳ the figure⟳ of an Archer above that of a galloping Bull, and in another Assyrian Standard, that of Sargon II., we find⟳ not only the Archer and the Bull, the two constellations which 4,000 b.c. marked the equinoctial colure, but we may also clearly trace a reference to the two constellations which at the same date⟳ marked the solstitial colure, namely, those of the Lion and the Water-man.”

“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.”

“No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence⟳ of the Water-carrier and the Archer.”

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