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VENUS |
Heavenly body |
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MOON |
Heavenly body |
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STAR |
Heavenly body |
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PLANET |
Heavenly body |
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SERAPH |
Heavenly body |
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ANGEL |
Heavenly body |
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COMET |
Heavenly body |
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CORONA |
Ring round heavenly body |
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HARBOR |
The mansion of a heavenly body. |
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TRANSIT |
To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body). |
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SUN |
Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs. |
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LATITUDE |
The angular distance of a heavenly body from the
ecliptic. |
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LUMINARY |
Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly
bodies. |
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NORTHING |
The distance of any heavenly body from the equator
northward; north declination. |
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ORB |
A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly
body. |
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SOUTHING |
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south
declination; south latitude. |
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OCCULTED |
Concealed by the intervention of some other heavenly
body, as a star by the moon. |
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SET |
The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body;
descent; hence, the close; termination. |
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LIMB |
The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially
of the sun and moon. |
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DISASTER |
An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star;
malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent. |
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EPHEMERIS |
Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a
heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. |
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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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PLACE |
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually
defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and
longitude. |
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ORBIT |
The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical
revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth,
of the moon. |
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WORLD |
Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human
interests; as, a plurality of worlds. |