SIGNIFER is another name for the Sign-Bearer, or the zodiacal belt, which carries the twelve signs. Claudian uses the word, De raptu Proserpinae I.101-102, which Chaucer may have known as Liber Catonianus, a medieval schoolbook.

Criseyde prepares for bed instead of returning to Troy as Cinthia whirls out of the Lion and all the candles of Signifer are bright, Tr V.1016-1022.

The name appears in a medial position, Tr V.1020.