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321 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.
322 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*.
323 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIDERATED.1 (Noah Webster)
SIDERATED, a. [L. sideratus.] Blasted; planet-struck.
324 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.
325 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.]
326 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.
327 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPLENDENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Shining; glossy; beaming with light; as splendent planets; splendent metals.
328 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPLENDOR.1 (Noah Webster)
SPLENDOR, n. [L. See Plant and Planet.]
329 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.
330 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SQUARE.26 (Noah Webster)
10. In astrology, quartile; the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other.
331 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 …
332 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.
333 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.
334 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.
335 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SULLEN.5 (Noah Webster)
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
336 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 …
337 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.
338 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.
339 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.
340 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 …