- n. astronomy : A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern
sky, said to resemble a large bear. It is part of the
constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe,
and Alkaid. GNU Webster's 1913 - adj. Astron. the constellation
Ursa Major. - n. a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates
around the North Star “My last dollar was now gone, and you may
well suppose I felt the loss of it; but the thought of being
once again free to pursue my journey, prevented that depression
which a sense of destitution causes; so swinging my little
bundle on my back, I caught a glimpse of the Great Bear (which
ever points the way to my beloved star,) and I started again on
my journey.” “At first they were as faint and icy as the pimples
on an albino's backside, but they grew in brilliance and size
until a sewing basket of flaming buttons spilled on his head,
and the Great Bear raked him with her sidereal paws.” “Bill
would be waiting for him there, and they would paddle away south
down the Dease to the Great