
Noah Webster
Andromeda
ANDROM'EDA, noun
1. A northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, representing the figure of a woman chained. The stars in this constellation, in Ptolemy's catalogue, are 23; in Tycho's 22; in Bayer's 27; in Flamsted's 84.
2. The name of a celebrated tragedy of Euripides, now lost.