Leo

(le'o.) [L., a lion.] (Ast.) The fifth of the zodiacal signs, and a constellation of the N. hemisphere, situate bet. Ursa Major and Cancer. It contains Regulus, a star of the first magnitude.-LEO MINOR [L., the le er lion] is a constellation of the N. hemisphere, composed of small stars, and lying right to the south of Ursa Major, and between Leo, Cancer, and Lynx. [s. 537]