the dog-star

n the star Sirius 天狼星（大犬座）.

the Bronze Age, the burden of proof, the Christian Era, the Church of England, the Civil Service, the class struggle (also the class war), the Communist Party, the Conservative Party, the Consolidated Fund, the Coptic Church, the Corn Laws, the damned, the Dark Ages, the Dark Continent, the deceased, the deep South, the departed, the Depression, the disinherited, the dispossessed, the East End, the Eastern Bloc, the elect, the electric chair, the English Channel (also the Channel), the Eternal City, the evening star, the fair sex, the faithful, the fallen, the Far East, the Far West, the few, the fine print, the first person, the First World War (also World War I), the foregoing, the former, the front bench, the front line,