||A"ri*es, n. [L.] 1.
(Astron.) (a) The Ram; the first of the twelve
signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, about the
21st of March. (b) A constellation west of
Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.
2. (Rom. Antiq.) A battering-ram.