Rating | Solver | Clue |
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SUN | Rising star? | |
CANICULAR | Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. | |
ACRONYCHAL | Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical. | |
COSMICALLY | With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun. | |
DOG DAYS | ...nicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part ... | |
AMPLITUDE | ...est point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it ... |