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Definition of Coalsack
1. n. Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence of stars; esp., the large space near the Southern Cross sometimes called the Black Magellanic Cloud.
Definition of Coalsack
1. a dark region of the Milky Way [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coalsack
Literary usage of Coalsack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Nevertheless it is already apparent that the fossils from coalsack Bluff represent
... At coalsack Bluff there is a reasonably abundant tetrapod "fauna" of ..."
2. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1869)
"After this it immediately expands into a broad and bright mass." Still more
remarkable and significant is the fact that the coalsack lies " in ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"... she must confess, for it did hurt her poor fingers so,”—hero she held up a
dish-cloth rather rougher than a coalsack; which she had stolen cleverly from ..."
4. Problems in Astrophysics by Agnes Mary Clerke (1903)
"The true coalsack, then, has not yet been photographed, and we are ignorant of
the precise form which it will take upon the sensitive plate. ..."
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