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OUTSHINES |
Eclipses |
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EXTINCTIONS |
Eclipses |
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OVERSHADOWS |
Eclipses |
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SAROS |
Helps to predict eclipses |
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ECLIPTIC |
Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses. |
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INGRESS |
The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in
eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc. |
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ECLIPSE |
To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said
of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun. |
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PRODIGY |
Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of
nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors
were anciently deemed prodigies. |
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ASTRONOMY |
... of
their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses,
constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various
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OCCULTATION |
... intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied
especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the
eclipses of ... |
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ALMANAC |
...of the rising and setting of the sun and moon,
eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of
courts, etc. ... |