Venus

noun5

1. •
   the bright point of light low in the sky in the early morning or evening, the second planet from the sun

   • Venus rises on the 1st day 1/4 to 5 a.m., and 4h. 25m. a.m. on the last day. […] She is now beginning to move northward. — 1867
2. •
   Any depiction of an idealized or erotic figure of a nude woman, especially one in a mythological setting.

   • Their figures are universally models for brunette Venuses, and their feet arched like rainbows, and Cinderellan in size. — 1888
3. •
   Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.

   • However, a number of well-crafted studies in recent years have forcefully questioned—and perhaps refuted—the view that the Venuses were simply or solely goddesses. — 1990
4. •
   (literary) Sexual activity or intercourse; sex; lust, love.

   • Immoderate Venus in excess, as it is a cause, or in defect; so, moderately used, to some parties an only help, a present remedy. — 1624
5. •
   (no longer used) Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).