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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

Sirius, a star of the first magnitude, whose rising and setting with the sun gives name to the dogdays.

See also: Dog Star

dogstar

Alternative form of Dog Star
- 1879, Various, Harper's Young People, Harper & Brothers
  The brightest star of all visible in our latitude is the dogstar, which gives four times as much light as any other.