Ār'i-ēs, n.

(-eez), n. [Lat. aries, O. Lat. ares, Bisc. aria, ram, ardia, sheep, Ir. reithe, ram.]

1. (Astron.) The Ram; a constellation of the zodiac, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the vernal equinox, on the 21st of March.
2. (Rom. Antiq.) A battering ram.