Aquila

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aquila \Aq"ui*la\, n.; pl. {Aquil[ae]}. [L., an eagle.]
     1. (Zool.) A genus of eagles.
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     2. (Astron.) A northern constellation southerly from Lyra and
        Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle.


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     {Aquila alba} [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of
        {calomel}. --Brande & C.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Aquila
       n 1: a constellation in the Milky Way near Cygnus; contains the
            star Altair
       2: the provincial capital of the Abruzzi region in central
          Italy [syn: {L'Aquila}, {Aquila degli Abruzzi}]
       3: a genus of Accipitridae [syn: {genus Aquila}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Aquila
     eagle, a native of Pontus, by occupation a tent-maker, whom Paul
     met on his first visit to Corinth (Acts 18:2). Along with his
     wife Priscilla he had fled from Rome in consequence of a decree
     (A.D. 50) by Claudius commanding all Jews to leave the city.
     Paul sojourned with him at Corinth, and they wrought together at
     their common trade, making Cilician hair-cloth for tents. On
     Paul's departure from Corinth after eighteen months, Aquila and
     his wife accompanied him to Ephesus, where they remained, while
     he proceeded to Syria (Acts 18:18, 26). When they became
     Christians we are not informed, but in Ephesus they were (1 Cor.
     16:19) Paul's "helpers in Christ Jesus." We find them afterwards
     at Rome (Rom. 16:3), interesting themselves still in the cause
     of Christ. They are referred to some years after this as being
     at Ephesus (2 Tim. 4:19). This is the last notice we have of
     them.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Aquila, an eagle