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261 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LUCIFER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The planet Venus, so called from its brightness.
262 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.
263 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALIGN.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Unfavorable; pernicious; tending to injure; as a malign aspect of planets.
264 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALIGNANCY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets.
265 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.
266 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARTIAL.6 (Noah Webster)
5. Pertaining to Mars, or borrowing the properties of that planet.
267 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.
268 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 …
269 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.
270 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 …
271 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.
272 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 …
273 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 …
274 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NORTHING.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The motion or distance of a planet from the equator northward.
275 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.
276 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.
277 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.
278 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.
279 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.
280 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 …