Centaur

(sen'taur.) [Gr. kentauros, one wh goads a bull.] (Myt.) A fabled monster, half man and half horse, one of a savage race said to have existed in The aly, and extirpated in a war with the neighboring Lapithæ, led by Hercules and These us.-(Astron.) A southern constellation, situated S. of Spica Virgin is, and containing 35 stars, of which two are of the 1st magnitude. See SAG IT TAR I US. [s. 158]