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PLANETS |
Heavenly bodies |
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ANGELS |
Heavenly bodies |
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MOONS |
Heavenly bodies |
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STARS |
Heavenly bodies |
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OBSERVATORY |
Heavenly bodies lookout |
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METEORS |
Small, fast moving heavenly bodies |
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SCHEMATISM |
Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies. |
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URANOSCOPY |
Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies. |
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SYNOD |
A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies. |
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MOVIESTARS |
Medical officer appears to struggle with heavenly bodies of screen idols |
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TOUR |
A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly
bodies. |
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LUMINARY |
Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly
bodies. |
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SABIAN |
An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the
heavenly bodies. |
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TELESCOPE |
An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects,
as the heavenly bodies. |
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URANOLOGY |
A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly
bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography. |
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HELIOMETRY |
The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of
heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer. |
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URANOGRAPHY |
A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly
bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology. |
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COSMOLABE |
An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used
for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also
pantacosm. |
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ALMACANTAR |
A recently invented instrument for observing the
heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See
Almucantar. |
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STAR |
One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens;
any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae. |
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FORESTAFF |
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the
altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called
also cross-staff. |
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NATIVITY |
A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies
as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future
destinies; a horoscope. |
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ORB |
One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients
to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in
their revolutions. |
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QUADRATE |
An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are
distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See
the Note under Aspect, 6. |
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BACKSTAFF |
An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of
the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; --
so called becaus... |