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281 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRIMARY.7 (Noah Webster)
Primary planets, are those which revolve about the sun, in distinction form the secondary planets, which revolve about the primary.
282 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUARTILE.1 (Noah Webster)
QUARTILE, n. An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other a quarter of the circle, ninety degrees, or three signs.
283 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUINTILE.1 (Noah Webster)
QUINTILE, n. [L. quintus, fifth.] The aspect of planets when distant from each other the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72 degrees.
284 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPRESENTATION.4 (Noah Webster)
… the planets and their revolutions.
285 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETROGRADATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of moving backwards; applied to the apparent motion of the planets.
286 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RETROGRADE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astronomy, apparently moving backward and contrary to the succession of the signs, as a planet.
287 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REVOLUTION.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The motion of a body round any fixed point or center; as the annual revolution of the earth or other planet in its orbit round the center of the system.
288 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROLL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To revolve; to turn on its axis; as, to roll a wheel or a planet.
289 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RUN.63 (Noah Webster)
38. To pass in an orbit of any figure. The planets run their periodical courses. The comets do not run lawless through the regions of space.
290 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SATELLITE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A secondary planet or moon; a small planet revolving round another. In the solar system, eighteen satellites have been discovered. The earth has one, called the moon, Jupiter four, Saturn seven, and Herschel six.
291 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SATURN.3 (Noah Webster)
… the planets of the solar system, less in magnitude than Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy nine thousand miles, is mean distance …
292 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SECONDARY.6 (Noah Webster)
3. Not of the first order or rate; revolving about a primary planet. Primary planets revolve about the sun; secondary planets revolve about the primary.
293 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEMI-QUADRATE.1 (Noah Webster)
SEMI-QUADRATE, SEMI-QUARTILE, n. [L. semi and quadratus, or quartus, fourth.] An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other at half a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, one sign and a half.
294 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEMI-QUINTILE.1 (Noah Webster)
SEMI-QUINTILE, n. [L. semi and quintilis.] An aspect of the planets, when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
295 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEMI-SEXTILE.1 (Noah Webster)
SEMI-SEXTILE, n. [semi and sextile.] An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
296 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SESQUIPLICATE.1 (Noah Webster)
SESQUIPLICATE, a. [L. sesqui, one and a half, and plicatus, plico, to fold.] Designating the ratio of one and a half to one; as the sesquiplicate proportion of the periodical times of the planets.
297 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SEXTILE.1 (Noah Webster)
SEXTILE, n. [L. sextilis, from sex, six.] Denoting the aspect or position of two planets, when distant from each other 60 degrees or two signs. This position is marked thus*.
298 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIDERATED.1 (Noah Webster)
SIDERATED, a. [L. sideratus.] Blasted; planet-struck.
299 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SINISTER.5 (Noah Webster)
4. Sinister aspect, in astrology, an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs; as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini.
300 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPHERE.15 (Noah Webster)
1. To place in a sphere. The glorious planet Sol in novel eminence enthron’d, and spher’d amidst the res. [Unusual.]