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181 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CERES.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The name of a planet discovered by M. Piozzi, at Palermo in Sicily, in 1801.
182 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CERIUM.1 (Noah Webster)
CERIUM, n. A metal recently discovered in Sweden, in the mineral cerate, and so called rom the planet Ceres. It is of great specific gravity. Its color a grayish white and its texture lamellar.
183 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CIRCLE.12 (Noah Webster)
10. Circles of latitude, are great circles perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, passing through its poles and through every star and planet.
184 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CIRCLE.22 (Noah Webster)
And other planets circle other suns.
185 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMBUST.1 (Noah Webster)
… a planet is in conjunction with the sun or apparently very near it, it is said to be combust or in combustion. The distance within which this epithet is applicable …
186 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMET.1 (Noah Webster)
… a planet, but accompanied with a train of light, performing revolutions about the sun, in an elliptical orbit, having the sun in one of its foci. In its approach …
187 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONCENTRIC.1 (Noah Webster)
CONCENTRIC, a. [L., center.] Having a common center; as the concentric coats of an onion; the concentric orbits of the planets.
188 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONFIGURATE.1 (Noah Webster)
CONFIGURATE, v.i. [L. See Configure .] To show like the aspects of the planets towards each other.
189 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONFIGURATION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Aspects of the planets; or the face of the horoscope, according to the aspects of the planets toward each other at any time.
190 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONJUNCTION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astronomy, the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter with Saturn.
191 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUBE.4 (Noah Webster)
The law of the planets is, that the squares of the times of their revolutions are in proportion to the cubes of their mean distances.
192 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CULMINATE.1 (Noah Webster)
CULMINATE, v.i. [L., a top or ridge.] To be vertical; to come or be in the meridian; to be in the highest point of altitude; as a planet.
193 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CULMINATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The transit of a planet over the meridian, or highest point of altitude for the day.
194 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURTATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… a planet from the sun to that point, where a perpendicular let fall from the planet meets with the ecliptic. Or the interval between the sun or earth, and that …
195 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURTATION.1 (Noah Webster)
CURTATION, n. [See Curtate .] The interval between a planets distance from the sun and the curtate distance.
196 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DECIL.1 (Noah Webster)
DECIL, n. An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.
197 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEFERENT.3 (Noah Webster)
1. That which carries or conveys. The deferent of a planet, is an imaginary circle or orb in the Ptolemaic system, that is supposed to carry about the body of the planet.
198 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DESCENSION.6 (Noah Webster)
Descension of a sign, is an arch of the equator, which sets with such a sign or part of the zodiac, or any planet in it.
199 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIGNITY.9 (Noah Webster)
8. In astrology, an advantage which a planet has on account of its being in some particular place of the zodiac, or in a particular station in respect to other planets.
200 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIRECT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astronomy, appearing to move forward in the zodiac, in the direction of the sign; opposed to retrograde; as, the motion of a planet is direct.