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221 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FIXED.4 (Noah Webster)
Fixed stars, are such stars as always retain the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, and are thus distinguished from planets and comets, which are revolving bodies.
222 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GEOCENTRIC.1 (Noah Webster)
GEOCENTRIC, a. [Gr. earth, and center.] Having the earth for its center, or the same center with the earth. The word is applied to a planet or its orbit.
223 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRAVITATE.2 (Noah Webster)
… the planets are supposed to gravitate towards the sun, or center of the solar system.
224 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HELIOCENTRIC.2 (Noah Webster)
The heliocentric place of a planet, is the place of the ecliptic in which the planet would appear to a spectator at the center of the sun.
225 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HELIOCENTRIC.3 (Noah Webster)
The heliocentric latitude of a planet, is the inclination of a line drawn between the center of the sun and the center of a planet to the plane of the ecliptic.
226 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERSCHEL.1 (Noah Webster)
HERSCHEL, n. her’shel. A planet discovered by Dr. Herschel, in 1781.
227 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOROSCOPY.1 (Noah Webster)
HOROSCOPY, n. The art or practice of predicting future events by the disposition of the stars and planets.
228 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOUSE.7 (Noah Webster)
5. In astrology, the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavens.
229 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ILL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Producing evil or misfortune; as an ill star or planet.
230 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMMERSION.5 (Noah Webster)
The time when a star or planet is so near the sun as to be invisible; also, the moment when the moon begins to be darkened, and to enter the shadow of the earth.
231 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFLUENCE.5 (Noah Webster)
2. The power which celestial bodies are supposed to exert on terrestrial; as the influence of the planets on the birth and fortunes of men; an exploded doctrine of astrology.
232 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JOVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The planet jupiter.
233 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JOVIAL.1 (Noah Webster)
JOVIAL, a. [from Jove, supra.] Under the influence of Jupiter, the planet.
234 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JOVIAL.2 (Noah Webster)
--The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial or Jovial according to the colors whereby they answer these planets.
235 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUPITER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. One of the superior planets, remarkable for its brightness. Its diameter is about eighty-nine thousand miles; its distance from the sun, four hundred and ninety millions of miles, and its revolution round the sun a little less than twelve years.
236 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. KNOW.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To distinguish; as, to know one man from another. We know a fixed star from a planet by its twinkling.
237 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIKE.6 (Noah Webster)
Why might not other planets have been created for like uses with the earth, each for its own inhabitants?
238 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LUCIFER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The planet Venus, so called from its brightness.
239 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAGIC.4 (Noah Webster)
Natural magic, the application of natural causes to passive subjects, by which surprising effects are produced. Celestial magic, attributes to spirits a kind of dominion over the planets, and to the planets an influence over men.
240 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALIGN.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Unfavorable; pernicious; tending to injure; as a malign aspect of planets.