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301 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPHERIC.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Planetary; relating to the orbs of the planets. We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains by spherical predominance.
302 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPLENDENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Shining; glossy; beaming with light; as splendent planets; splendent metals.
303 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPLENDOR.1 (Noah Webster)
SPLENDOR, n. [L. See Plant and Planet .]
304 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPOT.12 (Noah Webster)
6. A dark place on the disk or face of the sun or of a planet.
305 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SQUARE.26 (Noah Webster)
10. In astrology, quartile; the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other.
306 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STAR.2 (Noah Webster)
… . The planets do not twinkle, and they revolve about the sun. The stars are worlds, and their immense numbers exhibit the astonishing extent of creation and …
307 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STAR.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In astrology, a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune. Hence the expression, You may thank your stars for such and such an event.
308 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STEM.5 (Noah Webster)
2. The peduncle of the fructification, or the pedicle of a flower; that which supports the flower or the fruit of a planet.
309 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBTEND.1 (Noah Webster)
SUBTEND, v.t. [L. sub and tendo, to stretch.] To extend under; as the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; to subtend the chord of an arch. A line from the eye to a planet, subtends an angle of 40 degrees with the horizon.
310 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SULLEN.5 (Noah Webster)
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
311 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUN.2 (Noah Webster)
… the planets. The light of the sun constitutes the day, and the darkness which proceeds form its absence, or the shade of the earth, constitutes the night. Psalm …
312 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SYNNEUROSIS.6 (Noah Webster)
3. In astronomy, a conjunction of two or more planets or stars in the same optical place of the heavens.
313 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SYZYGY.1 (Noah Webster)
SYZYGY, n. [Gr. to join.] The conjunction or opposition of a planet with the sun, or of any two of the heavenly bodies. On the phenomena and circumstances of the syzygies, depends a great part of the lunar theory.
314 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TABLE.26 (Noah Webster)
18. Astronomical tables, are computations of the motions, places and other phenomena of the planets, both primary and secondary.
315 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TALISMAN.2 (Noah Webster)
… or planet, engraven on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. The talismans of the Samothracians were …
316 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TETRAGON.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In astrology, an aspect of two planets with regard to the earth, when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.
317 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRIGON.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A triangle; a term used in astrology; also, trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
318 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRINE.2 (Noah Webster)
TRINE, n. [supra.] In astrology, the aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, forming the figure of a trigon or triangle.
319 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRIOCTILE.1 (Noah Webster)
TRIOCTILE, n. [L. tres, three, and octo, eight.] In astrology, an aspect of two planets with regard to the earth, when they are three octants or eight parts of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other.
320 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TWINKLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To sparkle; to flash at intervals; to shine with a tremulous intermitted light, or with a broken quivering light. The fixed stars twinkle; the planets do not.