Search for: Globe
201 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LITHOGENESY.2 (Noah Webster)
The doctrine or science of the origin of minerals composing the globe, and of the causes which have produced their form and disposition.
202 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LONGITUDE.3 (Noah Webster)
… the globe from another place, eastward or westward; or the distance of any place from a given meridian. Boston, in Massachusetts, is situated in the 71st degree …
203 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MACE.1 (Noah Webster)
… crown, globe and cross.
204 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAMMILLATED.1 (Noah Webster)
MAMMILLATED, a. Having small nipples, or little globes like nipples.
205 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MERIDIAN.2 (Noah Webster)
… the globe has its meridian, and when the sun arrives at this circle, it is mid-day or noon. whence the name. This circle may be considered to be drawn on the surface …
206 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. METEOR.3 (Noah Webster)
… brilliant globes or masses of matter which are occasionally seen moving rapidly through our atmosphere, and which throw off, with loud explosions, fragments …
207 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOUNTAIN.1 (Noah Webster)
… the globe; but sometimes the word is used for a large hill. In general, mountain denotes an elevation higher and larger than a hill; as the Altaic mountains in …
208 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MUTATION.3 (Noah Webster)
The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument.
209 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEPTUNIAN.4 (Noah Webster)
NEPTUNIAN, n. One who adopts the theory that the whole earth was once covered with water, or rather that the substances of the globe were formed from aqueous solution; opposed to the Plutonic theory.
210 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEPTUNIST.1 (Noah Webster)
NEPTUNIST, n. One who adopts the theory that the whole earth was once covered with water, or rather that the substances of the globe were formed from aqueous solution; opposed to the Plutonic theory.
211 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OCEAN.2 (Noah Webster)
… the globe, called also the sea, or great sea. It is customary to speak of the ocean as if divided into three parts, the Atlantic ocean, the Pacific ocean, and the …
212 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORB.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astronomy, a hollow globe or sphere.
213 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORTHODROMICS.1 (Noah Webster)
ORTHODROMICS, n. The art of sailing in the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe.
214 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PARALLEL.9 (Noah Webster)
1. A line on the globe marking the latitude.
215 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PERIECIAN.1 (Noah Webster)
PERIECIAN, n. [Gr.] An inhabitant of the opposite side of the globe, in the same parallel of latitude.
216 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLAR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Pertaining to the poles of the earth, north or south, or to the poles of artificial globes; situated near one of the poles; as polar regions; polar seas; polar ice or climates.
217 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLE.10 (Noah Webster)
3. In geography, the extremity of the earth’s axis, or one of the points on the surface of our globe through which the axis passes.
218 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUADRANT.5 (Noah Webster)
… artificial globe, consisting of a slip of brass of the length of a quadrant of one of the great circles of the globe, and graduated. It is filled to the meridian …
219 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUARTER.6 (Noah Webster)
5. A region in the hemisphere or great circle; primarily, one of the four cardinal points; as the four quarters of the globe; but used indifferently for any region or point of compass. From what quarter does the wind blow? Hence,
220 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RACK.16 (Noah Webster)
The great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this unsubstantial pageant, faded, leave not a rack behind.