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An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16¡ or 18¡ broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac.
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The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.
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Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories.
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Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.
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The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.
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The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.
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To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
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To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.
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That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
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A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.
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To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope.
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The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
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One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.
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Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.
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A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
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A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
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The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
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The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
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A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
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Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac.
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