Also 4–5 ariete. [L.; = ram.] The ram; one of the zodiacal constellations, which the sun enters on the 21st of March.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 1593. Or Phebus suster … The Lion passe, out of this Ariete. Ibid. (c. 1386), Sqrs. T., 43. In Aries the colerik, hoote signe.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems, 243. Tyme makithe his resoort, In gerysshe Marche toward the ariete.
1670. Eachard, Cont. Clergy, Pref. Born when the sun is in aries.
1812. Woodhouse, Astron., viii. 53. At the vernal equinox the first point of Aries and the Sun are on the meridian together.
