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الشِّعْرَى العَبُورَ ذ [The star Sirius;] a certain bright star; (TA;) one of the شِعْرَيَانِ, which [in the order of rising] is after, or behind, [in the TA, erroneously, “ with, ”] الجَوْزَآء [here meaning Gemini]: (S, O:) called العبور because of its having crossed the Milky Way. (S, O, TA.) [See also الشِّعْرَى in art. شعر. ― -b2- Hence the saying, عَصَفَتْ دَبُورُهُ وَسَقَطَتْ عَبُورُهُ, expl. in art. دبر.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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