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241 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALIGNANCY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets.
242 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARS.1 (Noah Webster)
MARS, n. In mythology, the god of war; in modern usage, a planet; and in the old chimistry, a term for iron.
243 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARTIAL.6 (Noah Webster)
5. Pertaining to Mars, or borrowing the properties of that planet.
244 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARTIAL.7 (Noah Webster)
The natures of the fixed start are esteemed martial or jovial, according to the colors by which they answer to those planets.
245 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MEDIUM.1 (Noah Webster)
… the planets move; air is the medium through which bodies move near the earth; water the medium in which fishes live and move; glass a medium through which light …
246 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MERCURY.5 (Noah Webster)
4. One of the planets nearest the sun. It is 3224 miles in diameter, and revolves round the sun in about 88 days. Its mean distance from the sun is thirty seven millions of miles.
247 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOON.2 (Noah Webster)
… secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night. Its mean distance from …
248 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORNING-STAR.1 (Noah Webster)
MORNING-STAR, n. The planet Venus, when it precedes the sun in rising, and shines in the morning.
249 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOVE.23 (Noah Webster)
… . The planets move in their orbits; the earth moves on its axis; a ship moves at a certain rate an hour. We move by walking, running or turning; animals move by creeping …
250 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NODE.4 (Noah Webster)
… a planet intersects the ecliptic. These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending …
251 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NORTHING.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The motion or distance of a planet from the equator northward.
252 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OCCULTATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. a hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet.
253 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OCCULTATION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.
254 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OCTANT.2 (Noah Webster)
In astronomy, that aspect of two planets in which they are distant from each other the eighth part of a circle or 45 degrees.
255 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ONE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Single in number; individual; as one man; one book. There is one sun only in our system of planets.
256 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORB.10 (Noah Webster)
The ancient astronomers conceived the heavens as consisting of several vast azure transparent orbs or spheres inclosing one another, and including the bodies of the planets.
257 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORBIT.2 (Noah Webster)
… a planet or comet; the curve line which a planet describes in its periodical revolution round its central body; as the orbit of Jupiter or Mercury. The orbit …
258 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORRERY.1 (Noah Webster)
… the planets in their orbits. This machine was invented by George Graham, but Rowley, a workman, borrowed one from him, and made a copy for the earl of Orrery, after …
259 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ORTIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
Rising, or eastern. The ortive amplitude of a planet is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the point where a star rises, and the east point of the horizon, the point where the horizon and equator intersect.
260 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASS.2 (Noah Webster)
… the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.